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To: J Fieb who wrote (35894)	9/13/1998 12:09:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

The thread has known this for awhile, but maybe not the proportions, it's HUGE! From IBC daily news. DiviCom wins huge MPEG contract The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has awarded a huge contract for MPEG-2 compression and multiplexing equipment to DiviCom Inc, for the handling of its TV and radio services from Sydney to ABC stations across the country. It plans to replace ageing analog B-MAC technology in stages, commencing this month with Western Australia. The Optus Aurora system, on the B-3 satellite, will be the platform the ABC uses. Once fully installed the whole of Australia, apart from Sydney, will at least in part receive ABC programmes via digital distribution, and almost 500 National Transmission Authority UHF and VHF transmitter sites. Thousands of remote area homesteads will also receive the digital service via Aurora. Explaining why DiviCom won 'sole supplier' status, Ian McGarrity, general manager at ABC Development, said: "The DiviCom encoder systems are a fully redundant solution which is obviously important when your whole radio and TV service depends on the digital distribution system. The pictures transmitted via the DiviCom encoders and the Aurora platform will increase the quality of reception for all Australians." DiviCom struck the deal through its local distributor Techtel, which reports that the ABC order involves the MediaView MV40 program encoder and the MediaNode MN20 multiplexer.

To: J Fieb who wrote (35894)	9/13/1998 12:12:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

BillyG, What does this really say? Can CUBE top this one from IBM? IBM shows TV commitment IBM Microelectronics has produced a chipset for the digital television set-top boxes of the future, indicating the computer giant's commitment to the television market across a wide range of equipment and technology areas, writes Margot Suydam. The company has combined its expertise in MPEG encoding and decoding with a PowerPC chip to create a single chip set-top evaluation kit running Open TV. At an Amsterdam hotel yesterday, IBM showed a prototype chipset, equipped to demonstrate Internet web browsing on television, DVD playback and hard disk recording. "Today, we are showing a single chip prototype with which we're going to production in early 1999, featuring our MPEG decoders and encoders," says IBM digital television marketing manager, Gordon Grove. He explains that IBM has tapped its expertise in building increasingly sophisticated chipsets to maximise capabilities in the current technology. "The whole thing is designed for the best possible throughput," he says. "Important to this whole solution is the memory architecture. The MPEG chip and CPU are connected to two processor busses because we want data flying though the MPEG decoder all the time. With the crossbar switch, the decoder can still get to and back from the processor without the MPEG memory being interrupted. It appears as a unified memory architecture without the drawbacks."