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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