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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.030313.27692@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 Jun 91 03:03:13 GMT
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dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:

>Responding to the following:

>>"I doubt it has MPEG built in, maybe JPEG, but certainly not
>>"reeal-time decompressing  JPEG" Even with a Mac IIfx it wouldn't
>>be real time, so it's not much use for anims (e.g. Quicktime)"

>What do you mean real-time JPEG and animation? JPEG is a still-image
>compression standard.

  Yes, but the C-Cube chip is fast enough to decompress JPEG images
at 30 fps.  SuperMac and their Digital Video product do just this.

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