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- From: dgold@laurel.math.umass.edu (Dan Goldwater)
- Subject: PAS-16 development and support and open standard from MV. info
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:45:20 GMT
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- I got this info sheet off the media vision support bbs. looks very
- interesting.... (i tried to post this before, but my editor messed up).
- dgold@laurel.math.umass.edu daniel_goldwater@brown.edu
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- June 22, 1992
-
- To: Media Vision ISV Developers,
-
- The Pro AudioSpectrum 16 sound card has proven to be a phenomenal
- success. In the first month of shipment alone, we bypassed our
- projected sales for the entire quarter. We can't seem to keep up with
- the demand - a good problem to have. The Pro AudioSpectrum 16 has
- also won some prestigious awards such as The Best of 1991 from PC
- Magazine. Media Vision is launching a proactive effort to open both
- the hardware and software sound standard to provide sound to the PC
- market. We are also offering our designs and chips to anyone in the
- industry who wishes to develop Pro AudioSpectrum or Thunder Board
- compatible hardware. Enclosed you will find a copy of the press
- release titled "Media Vision Opens Its Sound Standard."
-
- Media Vision is proud to announce our First Annual Developers
- Conference. The conference will be held at the Hilton in Newark,
- California on July 31, 1992. If you would like more information
- please contact the ISV Department at (510) 226-2529 or (510) 770-8600.
-
- We are significantly expanding our developer program to provide a
- stronger communication channel between you, the software developer and
- Media Vision. We are adding two field support engineers who will be
- available for on-site support, including assisting with the
- development of sound drivers. We are installing a toll free line in
- the ISV Developer Department, as well as a specialized developer BBS.
- These steps are being taken because Media Vision realizes the
- partnership created between us is critical to the continuing success
- of the sound market, as you are an integral part of our business.
-
- There are great benefits of being a Media Vision developer.
-
- * Special price on Media Vision products
- * Developer tool kits at no charge
- * Toll free phone number
- * Special developer BBS
- * On site programming support
-
- We want you to support the full feature set of the Pro AudioSpectrum
- product. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to
- call the ISV Developer Program at (510) 226-2529 or (510) 770-8600.
- We look forward to hearing from you.
-
- Sincerely,
- Debbie Gronski
- Product Marketing Manager
-
-
- News for immediate release
-
- Editor's contacts:
-
- Claire Merriam
- Media Vision (510) 770-8600
-
- Abigail Johnson
- Roeder Johnson (415) 579-0700
-
-
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
-
- MEDIA VISION OPENS ITS SOUND STANDARD
- Pro AudioSpectrum Technology Now Available to any Developer of
- PC-Compatible Sound Hardware or Software.
-
- Fremont, California, June 11, 1992 Media Vision Inc, has announced
- that it is offering to license, without charge, its proprietary sound
- technology to any hardware or software developer interested in
- creating Pro AudioSpectrum(Tm) compatible products. Pro AudioSpectrum
- technology is the foundation of Media Vision's line of 8- and 16-bit
- sound products and allows PC compatible computers to create sounds
- such as music or voices when used with applications software.
-
- Media Vision is the first company to open both its hardware and
- software sound architecture to the development community. With this
- announcement, Media Vision has opened the door for manufacturers of
- IBM-compatible computers, VGA boards, video boards, and audio boards
- to incorporate Media Visions audio architecture in their products
- easily and without fear of violating any Media Vision copyrights.
- This move is intended to lower the cost of sound products for
- PC-compatible computers and make the use of multimedia accessible to
- all computer suppliersand users.
-
- "Media Vision is dedicated to making multimedia affordable," said
- Paul Jain. "With this step, we are giving software and hardware
- developers easy access to our award-winning Pro AudioSpectrum sound
- technology and enabling high quality sound products to proliferate.
- We live in an era of open computer architectures; companies with
- closed standards will not go far in making multimedia solutions
- affordable. Ultimately, we want the end user to win."
-
- Pro AudioSpectrum technology is a series of complex computer
- algorithms that is built into personal computer hardware and used in
- applications software development. Pro AudioSpectrum technology was
- developed by a Media Vision team of hardware, software and chip
- engineers over a two year period. It offers "true 16-bit" or compact
- disk quality sound, which is the same level of sound fidelity as has
- been adopted by such multimedia industry participants as Sony and IBM.
-
- The Pro AudioSpectrum technology is available to hardware and software
- developers in several forms: Media Vision will provide design
- specifications for hardware and software required to develop a Pro
- AudioSpectrum-compatible sound product from scratch. Such a sound
- product can also be developed by using off-the-shelf chips available
- from Media Vision. These same chips are also available on a
- second-source basis from Crystal Semiconductor, a wholly owned
- subsidiary of Cirrus Logic Inc. (Fremont, Calif)
-
- Media Vision's mission is to popularize multimedia by offering
- multimedia solutions at affordable prices. media Vision's products
- range from systems and add in boards to chips based on emerging
- multimedia standards for mainstream personal computers. Media Vision
- Inc. is a venture capital funded company based in Fremont, California.
- The company's founders successfully formed two earlier ventures,
- Video Seven and Paradise Systems, which were responsible for the early
- popularization of color graphics technologies in personal computers.
- The company was founded in early 1990.
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