Brooktree announces support for Microsoft's ActiveMovie technology in multimedia and video input chipsets for Windows 95.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 1996--Brooktree Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BTRE BTRE Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics (formerly Bureau of Transport Economics; Australia) BTRE Broadcast Television Recording Engineers ) Monday announced that the company supports Microsoft's (R) new ActiveMovie(TM) application programming interface (API) in BtV(R) multimedia and video-input chipsets for Windows(R) 95. "With ActiveMovie, Microsoft has shown that video is now a standard data type in the PC," said Tom Clarkson Tom Clarkson is a fictional character in the BBC television drama Waterloo Road, portrayed by Jason Done. English Tom gets through those boring school days laying on his back. The classes like him because he's not a pushy teacher. , division vice president of marketing for Brooktree's multimedia business unit. "This is exciting for Brooktree as a leader in providing one of the most complete ranges of video input solutions available. We think the new ActiveMovie API will go a long way toward mainstreaming video on the PC, and we support it in our family of multimedia and video-decoder solutions." ActiveMovie is Microsoft's media streaming technology which provides improved video playback and synchronization support by adding software 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). playback and direct access to hardware MPEG features. ActiveMovie leverages Microsoft's DirectDraw(TM) API for improved display quality, and also provides cross-platform playback of such popular Internet media formats as MPEG audio and Quicktime movies, plus other popular media formats. ActiveMovie provides an extensive architecture upon which tools and titles can easily be built to create and deliver high-quality video and special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. . Brooktree Corp. designs and markets high-performance digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits A mixed-signal integrated circuit combines analog circuits with digital signal processing (DSP) circuits on a single semiconductor die. An integrated circuit that includes both analog and digital circuitry (but no DSP), like a 555 timer, is generally not considered a mixed-signal for computer graphics, imaging, multimedia and communications applications. The company, which has its headquarters in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , employs more than 625 people worldwide. Brooktree stock is traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol BTRE. Customers interested in more information about Brooktree products should contact the Applications Hotline at 1-800-2BT-APPS. More information on Brooktree Corp. is available from the company's SEC filings, or by contacting the company directly. Information about Brooktree is also available on the company's World Wide Web site, http://www.brooktree.com. CONTACT: Brooktree, San Diego Bill Berridge or Karen Hartz, 619/535-3273 or 619/535-3516 or The Benjamin Group Donna Kather or Carolyn Fromm, 714/753-0755 email: dkather or fromm@oc.tbgi.com |
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