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From: jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: CDTV News
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.151242.5815@truevision.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 15:12:42 GMT
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In article <1991Jun14.214206.1510@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>>>> Wasn't the MPEG standard completed last December? 
>>> No, it's not yet completed. 
>> At least two who should know about such things have said themselves that
>> there are conflicting reports about MPEG's completeness.  
>
>The conflicting reports were real enough.  I remember saving off a news
>report saying the audio portion was finished last September.  But don't
>listen to us... what we need is someone who _does_ know for sure :-)
>
>In any case,  I asked someone whom *I* thought would know <chuckle>, and
>was told that of the three MPEG sections (video, audio, system integration),
>only the video is done.  And that's the best I could find out so far.
>

The JPEG spec has been frozen but the final draft circulating has not been
signed off yet.  MPEG has not been finalized.  

-Jerry
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