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To: J Fieb who wrote (35768)	9/8/1998 6:36:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Jon, I agree that CUBE's new codec solves a serious compatibility problem in the digital video industry, and it opens a number of different markets to CUBE. There used to be at least two camps in digital video -- DV and MPEG-2. Now both are interoperable at real time rates (1.5X real time for the 50Mbits/sec stream). Panasonic may have assisted CUBE with the DV. However, the CUBE engineers could easily have done the work themselves, as DV is less complex than MPEG-2. We need George Thomson's input here.....