Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!kdb@intercon.uu.net From: kdb@intercon.uu.net (Kurt Baumann) Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc Subject: Re: Intel DVI Message-ID: <1267@intercon.UUCP> Date: 13 Jul 89 17:27:47 GMT References: <448@mtk.UUCP> Sender: news@intercon.UUCP Reply-To: Kurt Baumann Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 28 In article <448@mtk.UUCP>, marmar@mtk.UUCP (Mark Martino) writes: > After seeing the video that Intel put out about its DVI technology, I am > eager to hear from anyone who is using DVI or building equipment from > Intel's chips. Can you really compress images at 10 frames/second? How > well does it work on images that are not common on video, i.e. hard edge, > black and white, or lots of image switching? It works best on fairly stable video. If you have a lot of background switching then you run into speed problems. Other than that I can't say much as we only played with a demo and have not had the opportunity to do much more. > > Since their algorithm(s) are tuned to typical video images, I was > wondering how well they worked when you used other types of images. > Also, Intel did not give me any prices on the chips, boards, or systems. > Does anyone have ballpark figures? I have been following this for the last two years and I have not heard anything about a price yet. I do know that they want to get the price such that you could just put a box on your TV or CD player and use it, the consumers are the market that they would like to get this into, as far as I can tell. You would have to have the unit priced about $1,000 I would think. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 46950 Community Plaza Suite 101-132 Sterling, VA 22170 Phone: 703.450.7117