Visual Circuits To Showcase Expanded Product Line At Comdex Fall '96.MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 1996-- Launches MPEG-2, Motion-JPEG & MPEG-1 Encoder Products For The PC Visual Circuits Corporation announced today that it has released three new digital video add-in solutions for PCI-bus PCs that include MPEG-2 playback, Motion-JPEG (M-JPEG See MPEG. M-JPEG - Moving JPEG ) capture and MPEG-1 hardware encoding functions. ReelTime Pro is the first of a planned series of MPEG-2 playback offerings from Visual Circuits. The Pinnacle/P is a full-featured M-JPEG capture and realtime playback board. MPEG-In Pro is a professional quality MPEG-1 encoder board that leverages the power of the Pentium processor. These new product announcements come in time for Comdex Fall '96 in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. November 18-22 where Visual Circuits will be exhibiting in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion, Booth L2212-H2. "This is a landmark announcement for us - 3 diverse products at one time", stated Bill Foster, Visual Circuits VP of Sales & Marketing. "We see the trend toward widespread adoption of MPEG-2 next year and have chosen Fall Comdex to lay the foundation for a MPEG-2 product line modeled after our broad line of MPEG-1 offerings", he continued. "I'm especially pleased that we started shipping our first M-JPEG boards last month to a major player in the medical field. This demonstrates our commitment to affordable, high quality digital video for critical applications", he concluded. The ReelTime Pro board for IBM compatible (computer) IBM compatible - A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). systems plays back MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 encoded digital video with uncompromising professional quality. The MPEG-2 standard provides 4 times the resolution of the MPEG-1 format, producing stunning, full-color, studio-quality video - a step up from the consumer 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 of MPEG-1. Because the ReelTime Pro has been designed for aggressive cost reduction using the latest generation of components, MPEG-2 can now be a viable alternative for MPEG-1 in cost-sensitive applications. The ReelTime Pro provides the ultimate in flexibility by including both broadcast-quality video output and VGA (Video Graphics Array) The display standard for the PC. All PC display adapters support VGA, and Windows machines boot up in "VGA mode" before switching to higher resolutions. overlay capability. MPEG-2 video can be overlaid with a selectable key color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour a VGA display (up to 1280x1024) and the video can be smoothly scaled to fit in a window of any size. Production volume shipments of the ReelTime Pro will be available in 1Q97. The Pinnacle/P Motion-JPEG card enables PC compatibles to capture and play back full motion video and audio. The plug-and-play PCI installation avoids configuration problems and eliminates dependence upon the VGA feature connector A point-to-point channel used to transfer video signals between two video controllers, typically between the display adapter and a video capture or TV board. Using an 8-bit data path, it provides 40 Mbytes/sec bandwidth. which imposed limitations on previous generations. Full graphics overlay is achieved on the Pinnacle/P by sending video data through the PCI local bus directly into a VGA card. The Pinnacle/P can smoothly scale video in a Window and provide professional quality composite and S-Video outputs for recording or broadcast. The Pinnacle/P uses M-JPEG compression to achieve 30 frames per second capture at a resolution of 640x480x24 bits. The video source can be PAL or 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. (selectable under software control) and can be in composite or S-Video format. It also works for still image capture, where images can be compressed 20:1 and be indistinguishable from an uncompressed image. An important feature of the Pinnacle/P is the audio technology which provides hardware synchronization of the audio and video, a problem for some capture cards. 16 bit stereo audio capture and playback is possible at rates from 4-50khz for the highest quality possible. The Pinnacle/P is available for immediate delivery. The MPEG-In Pro add-in board provides full 30fps SIF resolution with IPB IPB Invision Power Board (forum) IPB International Peace Bureau IPB Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield IPB International Personal Banking IPB Illustrated Parts Breakdown IPB Institute of Plant Breeding encoding directly to a MPEG-1 file. Unlike comparably priced products, the MPEG-In Pro is not required to run special software after the capture to "convert" to standard 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). . This makes it ideal for "live" applications such as security monitoring, telemedicine and interactive training. The MPEG-In Pro makes professional-level compressed video available at a breakthrough price. As a result, full-motion video can be included in cost-sensitive applications such as corporate communications, training and education. The MPEG-In Pro codec (1) (enCOder/DECoder) A hardware circuit that performs analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) conversion. When analog signals are entered into a computer, cellphone or other device via a microphone or video source such as VHS tape or analog TV, makes use of the PC's Pentium processor to reduce cost and provides H.261 format output for use as a video-conferencing card. The MPEG-In Pro is available immediately in limited quantities. Visual Circuits Corporation (VCC An electronics designation that refers to voltage from a power supply connected to the "collector" terminal of a bipolar transistor. In an NPN bipolar (BJT) transistor, it would be +Vcc, while in a PNP transistor, it would be -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 solutions. Visual Circuits is privately held with headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. All Trademarks Are The Property Of Their Respective Owners. CONTACT: Laura Tanis, Marketing Communications Visual Circuits Corporation 3989 Central Avenue NE Suite 630 Minneapolis, MN 55421 612/781-2186 612/789-6905 Facsimile Home Page: http://www.vcircuits.com |
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