HP First to Ship Desktop Video Encoder Based on H.261 Standard; HP Strengthens Multimedia Offerings with New Collaboration and Conferencing Tools.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 1995--Hewlett-Packard Company today became the first workstation vendor to ship a LAN-based desktop videoconferencing Using a PC or Mac for a videophone session or videoconference. Contrast with a "room videoconferencing system" where a group of participants congregate in one room. See videoconferencing. encoder based on H.261(1), an industry standard for video compression Encoding digital video to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. See video codec and data compression. video compression - Compression of sequences of images. . The new encoder, HP Desktop Video, delivers high-quality, low-bandwidth compressed video compressed video - video compression for desktop videoconferencing applications supporting HP 9000 workstations. HP Desktop Video is an external, SCSI-based video encoder peripheral that mounts on all current HP workstations, including the new J-class line, and provides sustainable high-quality video fidelity for low-bandwidth networks, such as Ethernet. Supported by InSoft's Communique!, industry-leading desktop videoconferencing software that operates over wide-area and TCP/IP-compliant networks, HP Desktop Video gives users access to real-time video and audio with fully interactive, point-and-click collaborative-computing tools, such as application sharing A data conferencing capability that lets two or more users interactively work on the same application at the same time. The application is loaded and running in only one machine; however, keystrokes are transmitted from and screen changes are transmitted to the other participants. , a whiteboard, text and graphics. "Compliance to standards is critical to the successful adoption of desktop videoconferencing, and HP believes that the H.261 standard is currently the best approach because it delivers high-quality video for conferencing over existing network infrastructures," said Mark A. Canepa, general manager, HP Workstation Systems Division. "HP Desktop Video strengthens HP's overall collaborative multimedia product family by providing designers, engineers and other technical users with an affordable desktop device for a videoconferencing solution that supports their concurrent engineering environments." HP Desktop Video with InSoft Communique! is targeted at customers in HP's core markets -- such as mechanical design automation, electronic design automation, technical software development, financial services and telecommunications -- who want to add a cost-effective, high-quality, standards-based videoconferencing solution to HP workstations. For example, geographically dispersed engineering teams that currently spend significant travel time on internal meetings can use HP Desktop Video with InSoft Communique! to conduct design reviews and manage communication and design collaboration right from their desktops. "Bringing to market the first LAN-based H.261 solution is a major step in enterprisewide desktop collaboration and conferencing," said Daniel L. Harple, Jr., InSoft chairman and chief executive officer. "HP and InSoft can now deliver high-quality, low-bandwidth video to the desktop, combined with a full suite of collaborative tools, such as application sharing." As part of HP Desktop Video, HP also offers an optional digital camera that has a built-in microphone. The camera is designed for low-cost, high-quality audio and color-video sensing for business and personal audio/video messaging and conferencing applications. It allows users to record live-action audio and full-motion video images (individual people or objects and documents) on the desktop. HP Desktop Video contains an analog RCA See RCA connector and video/TV history. input jack for 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. and PAL analog cameras and VCRs, and an S-video input jack for S-video cameras. Also available is a digital input jack for the camera. The compression box attaches to the HP workstation via the single-ended SCSI-port interface. The SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. port enables multiple users to share the device, whereas an add-in card sits inside the desktop and benefits a single user. U.S. PRICE AND AVAILABILITY The HP Desktop Video package, including video-encoder box and digital camera for HP workstations, is $1,995. It is expected to be available in August. HP Desktop Video with Insoft Communique! will be demonstrated in HP's booth 2317 at SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics, www.siggraph.org) The arm of the ACM that specializes in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Providing publications, workshops and conferences, it has served technicians and researchers as well as the artist and business community from Aug. 8-10 at the Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. in Los Angeles. HP is the second-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer-related revenue of $19.6 billion in its 1994 fiscal year. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 98,600 employees and had revenue of $25 billion in its 1994 fiscal year. -0- Note to Editors: (1) H.261 is the video-compression format defined by the telephone and telegraph industry group CCITT See ITU. CCITT - Commite' Consultatif International de Telegraphique et Telephonique. (International consultative committee on telecommunications and Telegraphy). CCITT changed its name to ITU-T on 1 March 1993. . CONTACT: Copithorne & Bellows for HP Holly Zmetrovich, 617/252-0606 Ext. 255 Tim Hurley, 617/252-0606 Ext. 237 |
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