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DVI~ Multimedia Chronology
May 13, 1992
April 1992 TELETOTA, Paris, announces the first DVI~ PAL
compression facility for European developers.
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.
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.
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.
March 1992 CD-ROM Professional awards Intel and IBM the
development product of the year for ActionMedia~ II
hardware and software.
Feb. 1992 IBM also introduces Linkway Live! for DVI products
under DOS, an authoring tool which crosses many of
IBM's DOS products.
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.
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.
Jan. 1992 New Video announces DVI boards for the Macintosh.
Priced from $2495.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
Customers announcing or demonstrating new products
include Ace Coin, Attica Cybernetics, Datalus, New
Video, New York Life, ProtoComm, and TouchVision
Systems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
August 1989 Time Arts~ announces LUMENA~ paint software for the
Pro750 ADP. Time Arts is shipping LUMENA paint
software through Intel.
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.
July 1989 Intel begins shipping production volumes of Pro750
Application Developer Platforms and drops the price
to $22,000.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oct. 1988 Intel acquires DVI technology from General Electric
and begins work on commercial products.
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.
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.