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From: jwhitnell@cup.portal.com (Jerry D Whitnell)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Functioning JPEG-like systems? (was Re: Real time animation
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Date: 19 Apr 91 03:35:21 GMT
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Jeff Mann  writes...
|I'm in just about the same boat - can anyone confirm/deny that the Next wil
|do full resolution, 30fps arbitrary video from the hard disk? A friend
|tells me that the C-Cube JPEG chip simply doesn't work, at least not at
|full speed/bandwidth video as they claimed.
|
|I would also much prefer an add-in board.  I've seen a demo of a system
|running on a Mac II playing "Star Wars" off the disk, 24 bits, 30fps,
|using a jpeg system (but not the C-cube chip).  It was very glitchy.  I
|think the company was Super Mac Technologies or something like that.

It is SuperMac Technology and we are using the CCube chip.  The demo you
saw is quite old and we got some neat stuff under development.  I can't
comment on unannouced products, but will post something here when more
information is available.  If you want to receive information on our video
products after they been annouced, send me your smail address and I'll pass
it on to the appropiate people at SuperMac.

Jerry Whitnell
SuperMac Technology