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- DVI~ Multimedia Chronology
- May 13, 1992
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- April 1992 TELETOTA, Paris, announces the first DVI~ PAL
- compression facility for European developers.
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- March 1992 FAST Electronics, Munich, demonstrates a DVI add-in
- card for Toshiba color laptops based on the i750~
- video processor. Product scheduled for
- availability Fall 1992.
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- March 1992 Intel teams with Microsoft and IBM to announce
- digital video extensions to the Media Control
- Interface, a multimedia API for Windows and OS/2.
- Tandy, Software Publishing and NCR express
- immediate support for the expanded specification.
- Application developers and hardware manufacturers
- want to develop products to the spec to ensure
- compatibility.
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- March 1992 Intel agrees to license its RTV algorithm via the
- IMA, giving others the opportunity to build cross-
- platform compatible products. Lotus, IBM and DEC
- support the IMA's request and Intel's response.
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- March 1992 CD-ROM Professional awards Intel and IBM the
- development product of the year for ActionMedia~ II
- hardware and software.
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- Feb. 1992 IBM also introduces Linkway Live! for DVI products
- under DOS, an authoring tool which crosses many of
- IBM's DOS products.
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- Feb. 1992 Data East, an arcade game vendor in Japan,
- introduces its first DVI product. The game uses
- compressed video to tell players fortunes. It has
- proved very popular in its first months. Data East
- is also marketing the game machine motherboard,
- with the i750 video processor on it, to other
- interested game manufacturers.
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- Jan. 1992 IBM develops an application for Blockbuster Video
- to test market multimedia's ability to service
- customers and build store traffic. Customers can
- preview movie titles and get movie recommendations
- from the networked system.
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- Jan. 1992 New Video announces DVI boards for the Macintosh.
- Priced from $2495.
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- Nov. 1991 Fall COMDEX 1991 is the venue for Intel and IBM to
- introduce the second generation of ActionMedia II
- products (the delivery board contains the
- commercially available i750 video processor),
- Windows and OS/2 system software, new DOS system
- software, and second generation compression
- algorithms.
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- The boards cost almost 50 percent less ($2,600)
- than the first ActionMedia boards and, with the new
- compression algorithms, signficantly improve image
- quality. Windows and OS/2 system software, called
- AVK, is easily ported to new operating
- environments. A new generation of DOS system
- software also protects existing customer's
- investments with backward compatibility.
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- Companies demonstrating products supporting DVI
- multimedia include Asymetrix, Authroware, CEIT
- Systems, Comsell, DeignTech, Digital Video Arts,
- Kodak, MacroMind, MicroGrafx, New Video, Novell,
- ProtoComm, Software Publishing, Straylight,
- Synthetic Images and Tandy.
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- Nov. 1991 Intel and Fluent announce a strategic agreement to
- develop and market additional software for DVI
- products. Fluent will port its FluentStreams
- networking software to the AVK Windows environment.
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- Nov. 1991 Intel and IBM are awarded "Best of Show" and "Best
- Multimedia Product" at COMDEX by Byte magazine for
- ActionMedia II hardware and software.
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- May 1991 Sun Microsystems uses the i750 video processor to
- build a prototype board for its SparcStation. The
- DEMO '91 presentation includes live video-
- conferencing in the Unix environment. Wayne Rosing
- refers to a "remarkable chip set".
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- Feb. 1991 Intel publishes its first developers catalog with
- references to DVI application or tool development
- at 74 companies. System software upgrades are
- announced, and Intel becomes a sponsoring member of
- the Interactive Multimedia Association, and
- contributes to the IMA's work to promote cross-
- platform compatibility.
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- Customers announcing or demonstrating new products
- include Ace Coin, Attica Cybernetics, Datalus, New
- Video, New York Life, ProtoComm, and TouchVision
- Systems.
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- Nov. 1990 Intel introduces the i750 video processor, the
- first commericially available multimedia components
- for compressing and decompressing digital motion
- video and audio. The 82750PB pixel processor and
- 82750DB display processor sell for $85 in quantity.
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- The chipset is based on a programmable and open
- architecture, which allows it to support Intel's
- existing alogorithm products, plus the new JPEG
- proposal. IBM, AT&T, Compaq, Lotus, Microsoft, New
- Video, PictureTel, Olivetti, Sun and Aplix endorse
- the architecture.
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- Nov. 1990 Intel announces that it will license the bitstream
- for its PLV algorithm, which produces the highest-
- quality full-motion video at CD-ROM data rates.
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- August 1990 Intel and PictureTel announce a joint agreement to
- create desktop multimedia and videoconferencing
- components. The products will support Intel and
- PictureTel video compression algorithms, as well as
- MPEG and Px64 proposed standards.
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- Feb. 1990 Intel and IBM introduce ActionMedia~ 750 hardware
- and software. The two-board platform replaces the
- Pro750TM ADP and integrates the functionality
- previously requiring seven boards.
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- The ActionMedia 750 capture and delivery boards for
- ISA and Micro Channel bus PCs significantly reduce
- the cost of implementing DVI multimedia. Full-
- motion, full-screen digital video and audio
- hardware now costs $4,500. Software tools are
- upgraded as well.
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- Nov. 1989 CEIT Systems, Inc. introduces a DOS authoring
- package designed for DVI products called
- Authology~: MultiMedia. CEIT Systems, Inc., is a
- developer of software tools for multimedia and
- interactive video authoring, located in San Jose,
- California.
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- Authology: MultiMedia simplifies the development
- process, using a windowing interface and mouse
- input making application development easier. Non-
- programmers will be able to generate a variety of
- DVI applications, greatly reducing development
- costs.
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- Nov. 1989 IBM exhibits networked DVI applications, using two
- Personal System/2 computers connected via a Token-
- Ring network. Motion video images were transmitted
- and played at full speed between the computers.
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- DVI products use compression algorithms to convert
- motion video information to streams of binary bits
- which can then be transmitted over networks like
- any other digital data. The demonstration
- consisted of image digitization, compression and
- decompression in real-time with RTV 1.5 software.
- Images were captured from the show floor with a
- video camera connected to a DVI prototype board and
- displayed on a PS/2 VGA monitor.
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- Oct. 1989 Intel and Bellcore jointly submit a proposal for a
- video compression algorithm to the MPEG working
- group of the International Standards Organization
- (ISO). The proposal was submitted for
- consideration for the delivery of compressed motion
- video from digital storage media such as CD-ROM and
- hard disks.
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- The algorithm submitted provides good image quality
- and can be implemented in a cost-efficient manner.
- Further, it can be transcoded with the CCITT-SG-XV
- (Px64) and WG8 (JPEG) evolving standards, providing
- important synergy with international
- standardization activities. Intel plans to provide
- multimedia hardware and software products that are
- compatible with the Motion Picture Expert Group
- (MPEG) proposal, at the same time that it remains
- backward compatible with current algorithms.
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- Oct. 1989 Intel announced a video compression breakthrough:
- the ability to compress video footage in real time,
- at 30 frames per second (fps), on a PC platform.
- The DVI software, known as RTV 1.5 (real-time
- video), enables motion video compression and
- playback immediately, at full speed, full screen.
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- RTV is expected to revolutionize "quick turn-
- around" applications in key markets, including
- desktop presentation systems, video editing,
- networking and electronic mail. Further, it will
- be vital in training and education applications,
- where instant visual feedback and analysis greatly
- accelerate the learning process. RTV is also used
- as an authoring tool. It allows developers to
- compress their own video, design and edit their
- applications, and then replace the RTV segments
- with even higher quality video at a later stage of
- application development.
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- Sept. 1989 Intel Japan K. K. (IJKK) announces the creation of
- its Market Development Office to develop DVI
- business in the Japanese market. Tokyo Media Labs,
- created at the same time, is a showroom for DVI
- application development.
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- August 1989 Time Arts~ announces LUMENA~ paint software for the
- Pro750 ADP. Time Arts is shipping LUMENA paint
- software through Intel.
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- LUMENA is a professional-level paint program that
- enables designers to create sophisticated color
- graphics for output to a wide variety of media. In
- the DVI product environment, LUMENA provides a rich
- variety of paint and graphic layout tools. The 16-
- bit program delivers up to 32,000 colors. It is
- available in two versions from Intel: Basic LUMENA
- for $1500 and Production LUMENA for $2500.
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- July 1989 Intel begins shipping production volumes of Pro750
- Application Developer Platforms and drops the price
- to $22,000.
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- June 1989 Intel moves DVI technology into a new facility in
- the Princeton area; a new, 35,000-square-foot site
- at 313 Enterprise Drive, Plainsboro, NJ. The site
- houses an engineering group to develop components,
- boards, systems, software, training and support, as
- well as marketing and finance.
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- March 1989 Intel announces the Pro750~ Application Development
- Platform (ADP), an Intel386~ microprocessor-based
- PC with seven DVI boards (a 3-slot solution) for
- multimedia software development.
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- The Pro750 ADP is a DOS-based development platform
- with video, audio, and CD-ROM interface boards,
- digitizers and added memory modules. System
- software and authoring tools are installed on a
- 40MB hard disk for application development in the C
- programming language. The product is introduced at
- $25,000.
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- March 1989 Intel and IBM announce IBM's intention to develop
- Micro Channel~ version, DVI products for IBM's
- Personal Systems/2~ computer family. As part of
- the development contract, IBM will work with Intel
- to define new DVI products, including boards,
- software and integrated circuits.
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- Oct. 1988 Intel acquires DVI technology from General Electric
- and begins work on commercial products.
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- DVI technology was originally developed at RCA's
- David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton. In
- October, 1988, Intel acquired the technology from
- General Electric/RCA, hired the development team
- from SRI International, and established the Intel
- Princeton Operation.
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- DVI, ActionMedia and i750 are registered trademarks of Intel Corp.
- Pro750 and 386 are trademarks of Intel Corp.
- Mircro Channel and Personal System/2 are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp.
- Comdex is a registered trademark of the Interface Group, Inc.
- Time Arts and LUMENA are registered trademarks of Time Arts, Inc.
- Authology is a registered trademark of CEIT Systems, Inc.
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