Packard Bell chooses SoftPEG, CompCore Multimedia Inc.'s industry leading software MPEG player, to provide MPEG capability in its new fall line up.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 1995--Packard Bell announced today its licensing of SoftPEG, the industry's most technically advanced 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). player, and its inclusion of SoftPEG in its new, multimedia-focused, personal computer product line. Designed by CompCore Multimedia Inc., SoftPEG provides full MPEG picture and sound playback through a computer's existing monitor and sound card, without the need for additional hardware. "SoftPEG gives Packard Bell See Packard Bell NEC. computer owners the ability to play Video CDs, Interactive CDs and games, and any MPEG-1 encoded file," explained George Haber, president of CompCore Multimedia. "We are proud Packard Bell chose us to supply MPEG technology for their newest machines." "We are also very happy to see the union of two of our best customers," said Haber, referring to NEC's recent purchase of 10% of Packard Bell. "This alliance suggests that MPEG-2 technology may soon also be available to Packard Bell customers." The SoftPEG Software MPEG Player provides personal computer owners VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. quality video and hi-fi quality sound on Pentium, Power PC, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms. Using similar algorithms to those CompCore developed for its patented MPEG hardware products, SoftPEG out performs even some hardware MPEG decoders. SoftPEG is expected to become the most widely demanded software MPEG player. MPEG allows digital recordings of video and sound to be compressed and stored in about 1/25th the space the recording would otherwise take. An MPEG encoded recording is distributed in this condensed con·dense v. con·densed, con·dens·ing, con·dens·es v.tr. 1. To reduce the volume or compass of. 2. To make more concise; abridge or shorten. 3. Physics a. form, and then decompressed as it is viewed. A few thousand films, television shows, and interactive games are now available in MPEG format on CD. Several thousand more MPEG files are available on the Internet, ranging from professional seminars and step-by-step instruction guides to amateur productions of all kinds. By the end of the decade many homes will have digital video disk players next to their VCRs, and Cellular phone users will be able to video-conference, made possible by MPEG technology. CompCore Multimedia Inc. Located in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , CompCore Multimedia Inc. develops and licenses highly efficient audio and video decompression technology for hardware and software implementations. Having licensed its hardware MPEG Core designs to 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. , Hitachi, Cirrus Logic, Zilog, and a number of other electronics companies, CompCore is now making available software solutions for licensing and distribution. An active and voting member of the ISO-US X3L3 MPEG Committee, CompCore is currently involved in many MPEG related standardization efforts, including the MPEG Intellectual Property Rights Working Group, the Open MPEG-1 Initiative, and the VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association, Milpitas, CA, www.vesa.org) A membership organization founded in 1989 that sets interface standards for the PC, workstation and computing environments. Note the following VESA standards following this entry. Set Top Committee. Packard Bell Based in Sacramento, California, Packard Bell designs, manufactures, and markets a broad range of PC-compatible desktop computers, notebooks, and peripherals. Well known as being a good value at a very competitive price, Packard Bell products are responsible for over 50% of all U.S. mass market retail channel personal computer sales. The company's new fall line up will begin shipping in July. CONTACT: CompCore Multimedia Inc. Tanya Sitterly, 408/773-8310 |
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