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Technology Stocks : C-Cube -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BillyG who wrote (38867)	2/9/1999 1:52:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

Cube's spoonful of sugar... emediapro.net On its face-if you don't believe in MPEG-2 editing or deliver your content in MPEG-2 video-format interchangeability is a big yawner, and these products make little sense. However, C-Cube has thrown in a couple of very impressive spoonfuls of sugar. First, the DVxpress is one of the first chips to handle both DVCPro from Panasonic and DVCam from Sony. Even better, the DVxpress is a dual-stream codec that enables real-time rendering of transitions and other special effects-the Holy Grail of most prosumer DV videographers. This feature alone will enable boards built around the DVxpress to take the DV market by storm, where their owners will no doubt experiment with MPEG-2 and use it if C-Cube's quality claims bear fruit. In the consumer space, C-Cube's recently announced DVxplore chip delivers DV/MPEG-2 interoperability at the sub-$300 price point, albeit without dual-stream, DV capabilities. So products based on these boards will accept input from all traditional analog and DV cameras, edit in DV or MPEG-2, and output back to the camera in DV format for transfer to VHS tape or in MPEG-2 for digital distribution. MPEG-2 editing will be frame-accurate, with support from Ulead out of the chute. And, combined with a TV tuner, the chip lets you record "Frasier" while you're working out at the gym and play it back at broadcast quality. Of course, the DVxplore will also decode DVD-Video, allowing it to perform triple duty as a DVD decoder. Most impressively, DVxplore marks the debut of "no apologies" digital video-broadcast-quality clips you can show around without apologizing for artifacts. And though it won't propel my book to Clancy-like sales numbers, it may make the fourth wave of digital video the first to hit the beach.