Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!ajberl!ottmar From: ottmar@ajberl.UUCP (Ottmar Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: CDTV Motion Video Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 91 23:24:12 GMT References: <30764@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Jun7.025704.21505@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Lines: 24 >In article <1991Jun7.025704.21505@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tcapener@watserv1.waterloo.edu (CAPENER TD - ENGLISH ) writes: [Talking about full-motion video out of CDTV) >what I know. > >The C= rep said that right now decompression is done in software because >the standard for compressed video in hardware has not yet been finalized. >When it is, he said that C= will incorporate it. > >I was really impressed, anyway. Not bad for a $1100 piece of equipment. > >Travis Capener That's the same as I know. BTW: The "standard" mentioned is designed by a group called MPEG (motion picture expert group) and is something like JPEG for stills. (in short :-) Ottmar = AtelierRoehrig, Ottmar Roehrig, Hamburg, Germany UUCP: ...!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!ajberl!ottmar "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing..." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)