jonathan@jvc.UUCP (Jonathan Hue) (04/02/89)
This is old news, but some of you might not have seen it yet. Intel purchased the technology for DVI from GE a while back, and it was recently announced that IBM/Intel/Microsoft were going to work together to bring DVI to the IBM PS/2-70 (?) platform. The main piece of technology from DVI is a compression technique which allows full motion video to be played back from a 176.4Kbyte/second data stream (i.e. CD ROM rates). It was originally developed at RCA's David Sarnoff Research Center. A quote in the local paper, "If the future of CD-ROM is pinned to the imaginations of IBM, Microsoft, and Intel, we're in real trouble". I couldn't have said it better. So I guess we wait for them to come out with their piece of doggie doo, watch the price of it go down, then drop it into the Amiga 3000, rewrite all the software, and show everyone how to do it right, right? -Jonathan Hue uunet!jvc!jonathan JVC Laboratory of America "Beautify America. Kill a Yuppie." DISCLAIMER: I speak only for myself, etc.