4-ReelTime Pro Production Ahead Of Schedule; Visual Circuits' Flagship MPEG-2 Offering Meets Early Acceptance.MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 1997--Visual Circuits Corporation announced today that production availability of its 4-ReelTime Pro multichannel MPEG-2 playback card is two months ahead of schedule. The 4-ReelTime Pro is based upon the LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : LSI) L64002 MPEG-2 decoder chip and was announced on March 5, 1997. The 4-ReelTime Pro is a multichannel MPEG-2 playback card for PC compatibles. With the ability to play back 4 MPEG-2 streams simultaneously to a composite video output, along with MPEG-1/MPEG-2 audio (MUSICAM), it is ideally suited for applications such as video-on-demand, ad/commercial insertion and broadcast video servers, producing the lowest cost per MPEG-2 stream in the industry. Because of its advanced DMA (1) (Digital Media Adapter) See digital media hub. (2) (Document Management Alliance) A specification that provides a common interface for accessing and searching document databases. bus master design, the PCI bus card is capable of playing four MPEG-2 files simultaneously while using less than 10% of the system CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. . Multiple cards may be used in one system. An on-screen display is included for overlaying graphics or text information over the MPEG-2 video. In addition to stereo MUSICAM audio, there are four broadcast-quality NTSC (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. or PAL composite video outputs. S-Video format is available as an option. Each 4-ReelTime Pro channel can manage 15 Mbps files, with a maximum of 40 Mbps per card. "Coming in ahead of schedule is always good news," said Bill Foster, VP of sales & marketing for Visual Circuits. "Our first customer shipment was actually March 18th and has enabled us to already book follow-on orders from our first customers. We expect first customer shipment of the genlock and A/V (1) (Audio/Video) Refers to equipment and applications that deal with sound and sight. The A/V world includes microphones, tape recorders, audio mixers, still and video cameras, film projectors, slide projectors, VCRs, CD and DVD players/recorders, amplifiers and switch option by mid-May, as with the start of Beta testing on the Windows NT driver," he concluded. The genlock/video switching daughtercard See daughterboard. daughtercard - daughterdboard will genlock each channel independently to an external source. A video switch on the board can select the MPEG-2 generated on the board or the external video as the output. Audio switching is also included, with volume and tone controls. Drivers include Windows 95(TM) (shipping), Windows NT(TM) (Beta in May 1997) and Windows NT for Alpha(TM) (Beta in June 1997). A toolkit for developers is also available for customers wishing to write drivers for other operating systems and custom applications. 4-ReelTime Pro pricing starts at $2,495 (USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) for the base 4-channel card. Visual Circuits Corporation (VCC) is a digital video hardware and software company that also designs custom multimedia products for OEMs and private-label Resellers. VCC was founded in 1989 and has produced a variety of video-related products since that time including scan converters to transform a standard VGA output into a TV-compatible signal, real-time animation playback solutions, video capture boards and MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). solutions. Visual Circuits is privately held with headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Home Page: http://www.vcircuits.com All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Visual Circuits Corporation Laura Tanis, Marketing Communications 612/781-2186 612/789-6905 Facsimile |
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