CompCore's "Top Ten" Selling MPEG-1 Software Showing at CeBIT.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 1996--CompCore Multimedia Inc. today announced that it will be showing its "SoftPEG" MPEG-1 software at CeBIT in the Motorola PowerPC Pavillion. In Japan, SoftPEG was designated as the eighth best selling business software and the fifth best selling utility software by NIKKEI Personal Computing Refers to users working on their own computers rather than a terminal to a mainframe. Sometimes, the term refers to using computers at home for work and/or entertainment in contrast to business use only. See personal computer. magazine. CompCore will be demonstrating the PowerPC version of SoftPEG in the Motorola PowerPC Pavillion in Hall 14, Booth 22 at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, March 13-20. 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). (Moving Pictures Expert Group) is an international standard which facilitates the storage and playback of digital video and audio information. SoftPEG is a software MPEG-1 video and audio decoder developed by CompCore Multimedia, which generates high quality video and stereo audio and runs on PCs and workstations without requiring additional specialized chips or boards. CompCore licenses SoftPEG to PC manufacturers, graphics chips and card manufacturers, video CD publishers, game makers and software developers to provide an inexpensive MPEG-1 video/audio player. "Having SoftPEG selected as one of the top 10 software products in Japan is a major win for CompCore," said George Haber, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CompCore Multimedia Inc. "We are striving to make our MPEG-2 and AC-3 software products currently under development as popular when they are launched later this year." SoftPEG is a fully functional stand-alone software application which includes video and stereo audio decoding and a new easy to use graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to . The new version of SoftPEG also supports the most popular CD formats including Video CD 2.0. Video CD is an established standard CD format which can play full motion video by using the Compact Disc (CD) format. The latest version of this CD format, Video CD 2.0, supports the ability to navigate through numerous MPEG video files allowing the user to make playback control PBC (Playback Control) allows you to play Video CDs interactively by following the menu on the TV screen. [Category:Video storage]] decisions through pre-programmed menus. CompCore's new Video CD 2.0 version of SoftPEG now features end user interactivity for video CDs which is important for entertainment, training and educational applications. CompCore Multimedia Inc. is the leading video and audio technology provider for MPEG (Moving Pictures Expert Group) products. Founded in 1993, CompCore is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation headquartered in Santa Clara. As one of its primary businesses, CompCore offers MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 audio and video hardware designs to enable its OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers to manufacture and ship the highest quality, lowest cost MPEG products in the industry. In addition, CompCore also provides its OEM customers with a software version of its MPEG-1 technology called "SoftPEG." SoftPEG runs on most standard workstations and PCs and enables end users to play MPEG-1 CDs on their personal computers without requiring specialized hardware. CompCore's technologies have been adopted by many of the largest PC, graphics boards and chip manufacturers in the world including Hitachi, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Packard Bell, Matsushita, Cirrus Logic, ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. , Diamond Multimedia, Matrox, C-Cube, Twinhead and others. -0- Note to Editors: SoftPEG is a trademark of CompCore Multimedia Inc. PowerPC is a registered trademark of Motorola. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. CONTACT: CompCore Multimedia Inc., Santa Clara Ron Richter, 408/567-0552 Email: ron@compcore.com Web Page: http://www.compcore.com/ |
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