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To: DiViT who wrote (35621)	9/1/1998 3:11:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

E4 Announces CoolStream MPEG2/DVD [Cube inside] with Macromedia Director Support for WinNT, Win95/98 and Mac OS SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 1998-- E4's Cross-Platform Solution Allows Developers to Create MPEG2/DVD Streaming Applications with E4's Hardware for WinNT, Win95/98 and Mac OS E4 (Elecede Technologies, Inc.), a leading developer of state-of-the-art DVD, video and graphics products for the PC and Macintosh markets, announced that it has incorporated a Macromedia Xtra Plug-in for its CoolStream MPEG2/DVD Streaming solution. The CoolStream MPEG2/DVD Streaming card combined with the CoolStream software development kit (SDK), allows developers to easily incorporate broadcast quality video for network video or Director based applications on Windows NT, Windows 95/98 and Mac OS platforms. CoolStream is a perfect solution for MPEG2/DVD streaming video-on-demand (VOD) applications such as informational kiosks, distance learning, training and broadcast video on terrestrial or satellite-based systems. With the addition of the Xtra plug-in CoolStream is the perfect vehicle to produce and publish high quality training and informational applications. CoolStream is also fully DVD compliant allowing for the interactive playback of DVD movies and interactive titles. CoolStream MPEG2/DVD Streaming playback card works on Windows 95/98, Windows NT and Mac OS 8.x. "This is what the DVD market has been waiting for," said Michael Schmitt, Director of Business Development for E4. "With CoolStream, MPEG2 video streams, and a DVD-RAM drive, corporations, schools and government agencies can now develop and product their own high quality MPEG2 applications using Macromedia's Director." E4 will be releasing plug-in support for Active X, Internet Explorer and Netscape in the next release due Oct. 15. E4 provides the world's first and only cross-platform API for Windows95/98, Windows NT and Mac OS. "This opens up exciting opportunities for the development community to create video on demand, training and presentation applications without having to worry about which platform the product will be deployed on." CoolStream utilizes the ZiVA DVD decoder from C-Cube, and Auravision's VxP524 Video Stream Processor to provide hardware processing for both video and audio playback without burdening the CPU. This leaves the CPU to work on other time-critical tasks while providing the highest quality video processing to client applications. The CoolStream SDK includes components to develop applications rapidly on Borland C++ Builder and Delphi and includes DLLs to work with most 32-bit compilers such as Visual C++, Code Warrior, C++ Builder. CoolStream requires a PC/Mac with a Pentium 100 MHz or PowerPC 603, 120 MHz or higher and 16MB RAM, PCI 2.1 expansion slot, VGA graphics card/on-board graphics with NT 4.0, Windows 95/98 or Mac OS 8.x About E4 E4 (Elecede Technologies Inc.) is a developer of state-of-the-art DVD, video, and graphics products for the Macintosh and PC markets. The company markets the widest selection of DVD offerings in the industry. For more information, please contact E4 at 1731 Technology Drive, Suite 800, San Jose, Calif., 95110. Telephone: 408/441-6060. Fax: 408/441-6070. E-mail: info@e4.com. Internet: e4.com. --30--ahc/sf* slt/gdr/sf CONTACT: E4 Michael Schmitt, 408/441-6060 x213 mschmitt@e4.com

To: DiViT who wrote (35621)	9/1/1998 3:34:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

BBC launches digital channel. Links on the side for other stories........................................ news.bbc.co.uk The BBC has announced that its new public service digital channel, called BBC Choice, will be launched in late September. The channel will include a daily sports programme, extended coverage of music events plus special theme nights and repeats of top shows. Transmission of the service, designed to complement BBC ONE and BBC TWO, will begin via digital satellite on September 23. But viewers will not be able to see the channel until set-top decoders are available a week later. Katharine Everett, BBC Choice head of programming, said: "There's been months, years of talks about digital. Now it's here." The channel has a œ20m budget and will provide 3,500 hours of programming a year. The new network will offer different versions of BBC Choice for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with each broadcasting a mix of local as well as network programming. Satellite viewers will be able to pick up which ever version of Choice they wish to see, regardless of where they live, while digital terrestrial viewers will receive the service for their area. BSkyB is launching its digital satellite service on October 1 and will broadcast over 140 digital channels.

To: DiViT who wrote (35621)	9/1/1998 5:21:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

More on Hitachi's Multimedia DVD player....................... Hitachi unveils 'multimedia' DVD player plan Kyodo News Service/Associated Press Company Multilink Hitachi Ltd. Microsoft Corp. TOKYO, Sept. 1 (Kyodo) -- [ Hitachi Ltd. ] on Tuesday disclosed an outline of what it calls a "home multimedia station" under development jointly with [ Microsoft Corp. ] of the United States. The equipment looks like a video cassette player deck and blends the functions of television and personal computers. It can store in digital videodisks (DVDs), and play, various digital information fed via satellite broadcasting, digital camera or the Internet, Hitachi said. Up to 80 minutes of moving pictures can be stored on a currently available DVD, while a new larger capacity type, which soon will be made available, should keep more than two hours of such data, according to Hitachi. It will work on Microsoft's Windows CE operating software and Hitachi's Super H microprocessing unit. Hitachi is planning to market the equipment, which will be able to play regular DVD software, by the end of 1999 at below 150,000 yen.