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To: J Fieb who wrote (35903)	9/13/1998 9:49:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 50808

MPEG rules, says DIVI....... ibc-daily.co.uk MPEG rules in the studio MPEG is positioned to end the life of JPEG in the studio, according to Neil Brydon from DiviCom. This is significant, given that the majority of non-linear editing systems currently on the market use JPEG. The prediction was made at IBC Conference's briefing session yesterday, which looked at the issue of MPEG in the studio. Chaired by Dr Eric Badique from the European Commission, a panel of technical specialists from various parts of the industry extolled the virtues of this sophisticated compression algorithm. Brydon illustrated how rapidly MPEG has developed onto PC card-mounted MPEG encoders replacing 12U boxes from just four years ago. "MPEG encoding is definitely maturing," he said. Within the studio production chain, MPEG's advantages include that DV format material can be converted to MPEG without going down to baseband, ensuring the recorded information's integrity. Also its scaleability with respect to bandwidth creates very efficient systems within a facility. Neil Gilchrist from BBC Research and Development used the forum to report on the activities of the ATLANTIC consortium, which is looking at ways of preserving video and audio quality in an MPEG coded environment. For more information on this issue, visit the ATLANTIC Stand (1 and 2 in the New Technology Centre).

To: J Fieb who wrote (35903)	9/13/1998 9:51:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 50808

The new DVx has been getting peoples attention for several months now and giving them new ideas for new products........ NDS in video partnership Backed by the enabling silicon of C-Cube and its own encoder technology, NDS (Stand 8.240) has been working in partnership with Panasonic Broadcast to eradicate the remaining problems of video incompatibility. "We have been working together for several months," says NDS segment marketing manager Robert Pape. "Our interest in news caused us to look at our range for ideas, and we saw a nice application that would fit nicely in Panasonic's DVC Pro strategy. "We called up and said we had a potential solution for your problem - the answer to acquisition issues - of carrying DVC Pro native over MPEG-2. Panasonic has been very good to work with - and its partnership programme will reap huge benefits for both of us." An NDS engineering team approached Panasonic with an SDTI interface to its encoder. "Suddenly you could get really good quality pictures," says Pape. "This development has very big implications for people in news and other contribution environments, especially because there is no generation loss. It is silicon dependent , but certainly we should have it available as an MPEG transport improvement within six months."