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To: Black-Scholes who wrote (81016)	5/17/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: kash johal	Respond to of 186894

BS, Re: "Kash, I'm talking about ENCODING. A critical distinction. DECODING an MPEG2 stream IS a commodity business - though the volume for decoder chips is exploding due to DVD. ENCODING quality MPEG2 is difficult and will remain so. Second, obviously it's not a "snap together" proposition, but Divicom's technology is the current critical piece of that "digital video phone" vision." BS, could you be more specific. Clearly MPEG encoding has not much to do with the "digital video phone". The bandwidth requirements for sending MPEG2 streams are many megabits/second and none of the forthcoming technologies such as ADSL or Cable support uplinks of even 1Mbit and certainly not for a Qualcomm PCS phone!!!". On the other hand Intel has major development going on PC video phones but the resolutions are much less than MPEG. The problem isn't the encoding or the decoding its the BANDWIDTH!!! Regards, Kash