IBM to unveil digital video chip.(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, April, 1995 by Berniker, Mark

Big Blue bringing out encoding, decoding chips at NAB IBM used last week's National Association of Broadcasters convention to showcase the introduction of a digital video encoder chip that will be embedded into video editing equipment. IBM says the new chips will be cost-effective and are designed for film and TV editors and producers designing special effects for programing transmitted over broadcast, cable and satellite networks.

"The chip will allow video editors to take digital video information and look at it on a frame-by-frame basis," says David Daniels, IBM senior business planner, digital video products group. IBM's MPEG encoder chip, able to compress each frame of video, is based on technology called "I-Frame," which utilizes high-speed...

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