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From: ksakotai@hawk.ulowell.edu (Krishnan "krish" Sakotai)
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Subject: Re: Request for 'DVI' info...
Keywords: Digital Video Interactive
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Date: 29 May 90 14:56:40 GMT
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In article <10318@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> rjj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (rjj) writes:
>I recently heard mention of a new video technology called
>'DVI' Digital Video Interactive.  I think that IBM and
>Intel may be involved but I'm not sure.  If anyone has
>any information that they could share, I would apprecitate
>hearing about it.
>

DVI as a technology has been in the works for over 2 years at the RCA
laboratories in Princeton, NJ. The operations at RCA labs were bought by
Intel about an year back. The essence of DVI lies in the ability to compress
multimedia information( live video, sound, text, 3D graphics etc) together 
and store them in a logical sequence onto a high capacity storage device 
like CD-ROM. However, the beauty of DVI lies in real-time decompression of 
the compressed data for playback.

IBM and Intel are indeed working together to bring DVI capability to the
PS/2 machine. DVI technology should be commercially available soon in the
form of board sets, that are "pluggable" into the PS/2 and PC/AT machines. 

For more info on DVI you might want to refer to the following :

1) Communications of ACM, SIGGRAPH '89 special issue.

2) DIGITAL VIDEO IN A PC ENVIRONMENT  by A.C.Luther.(I do not recall the
                                                     name of the
						     publishers).