FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SCREEN MACHINE II APPLICATIONS RELEASE 2.1 NOW SHIPPING SCREEN MACHINE II DEVELOPER KIT RELEASE 1.1 NOW SHIPPING Munich, March 30 - interpersonal-computing Germany announces today that they are now shipping release 2.1 of the award winning "Screen Machine II" for NEXTSTEP/INTEL 3.2. Screen Machine II is a real-time video digitizer, that digitizes images in true color or gray scale. "Screen Machine II" is also a multimedia board that is capable of displaying live video, in any size, on your VGA monitor. As well the "Screen Machine II Developer Kit" for creating video and multimedia applications, using the "Screen Machine II" multimedia board, is now shipping. SCREEN MACHINE II HARDWARE ===================================================================== The "Screen Machine II" multimedia board allows displaying and grabbing of live video on your computer screen on various operating systems, offering the best video quality available for PCs. The NeXT version was honored with the 1993 BEST OF BREED award by the NeXTWORLD magazine. "Screen Machine II" hardware offers * 24-bit true color (16.7 million colors) * 3 FBAS inputs, software selectable or * 1 FBAS and 1 S-Video input (max. 1Vpp 75 Ohm, AGC) * up to 4 Screen Machine IIs per PC * Geom. resolution of 640x480 NTSC, 768x576 PAL/SECAM * Screen res. of 640x480 up to 1120x832 (non interl.) * Screen Resolution of 1280 x 1024 (interlaced) * video scaling from icon size up to full screen * 1/60 sec. field NTSC (1/60 PAL) * 1/25 sec. frame NTSC (1/30 PAL) * 14.75 MHz with 2x oversampling * PAL, NTSC, SECAM SCREEN MACHINE II SOFTWARE ===================================================================== For software release 2.1 we have improved system performance and enhanced our "Screen Machine II" software. The new driver was written using the NEXTSTEP Driver Kit and now offers complete compatibility with the NEXTSTEP interface. "Screen Machine II" ships with the following software * SMCamera The SMCamera allows easily grabbing an organized store of images out of the live video. Printing options allow to print a single image or to print thumbnails as preview of several images. * SMPreview Live Video of every size and at any position on your computers screen. * SMAnimate Playback software for Screen Machine movies. * SMDemoPalette Demo version of the Screen Machine Palette. THE SCREEN MACHINE II DEVELOPER KIT, Object Ware ===================================================================== The "Screen Machine II" Developer Kit offers more than 200 Methods in 11 classes to access the video board. Programmers now have video available at their fingertips. The design was completely integrated into NEXTSTEP and InterfaceBuilder, so that you are able to integrate live video into your application in only a few minutes. Also included is an almost NeXT Dimension compatible class, which helps you porting software which was written for this board. retail prices: Screen Machine II (including SM II software 2.1) USD 1498 Screen Machine II developer kit v. 1.1 USD 998 availability: now For more technical information: interpersonal-computing GmbH NeXT Center Munich Oettingenstrasse 2 80538 Munich/GERMANY Phone: ++49 (0) 89 22 28 63 Fax: ++49 (0) 89 22 33 76 Email: sm@interpc.de NeXT Mail (international<20kB) Welcome Distributor: DART software GmbH Virchowstrasse 17-19 22767 Hamburg/GERMANY Phone: ++49 (0) 40 38023 0 Fax: ++49 (0) 40 38023 290 Email: sm@dart.de NeXT Mail (international<20kB) Welcome