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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: MPEG (Was Re: CDTV, CD-I, DCTV, etc)
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Date: 25 Apr 91 14:01:22 GMT
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In article <1991Apr22.064348.9309@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
> I recall reading a short time ago that C-cube has just
>announced initial fabrication of a chip implementing the draft MPEG standard.
>Can't remember where I saw this though, but it's definitely coming.

Yes, this was mentioned in several technical rags. They were doing some
collaboration with JVC.

Also, there is a company called Aware, Inc. in Cambridge, MA doing high
speed image copmpression akin to MPEG. They currently have a chipset that
does 30 million 8 or 11 bit pixels/s but will soon release a single chip
solution capable of 30M 16bit pix/s. Apparently it uses less than 1/5 the
operations of competing methods to compress MPEGII images 50:1 with minimal
degradation.

There is a great article in one of the latest "Communications of the ACM"
covering MPEG methods as well as stuff on JPEG. Check it out.
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