MOTION PIXELS DEBUTS NEXT GENERATION VIDEO COMPRESSION

FREE EVALUATION OF SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET

Scottsdale, AZ (September 6, 1995) -- Heralding it as the next generation
in video compression technology software, William Fidler, Executive Vice
President of software developer Motion Pixels, Inc. today announced the
availability of its Motion Pixels Version 2.1B software for beta testing.
The release of the technology, which allows high-quality, full-motion,
full-screen video on a wide range of computers, culminates more than two
years of product development and testing. 

"Motion Pixels software technology has produced results never before
possible without the use of special hardware such as MPEG cards," said
Fidler. "Since one picture is worth a million words, we've decided to
allow multimedia developers and other interested parties to experience the
remarkable results firsthand," he stated. An evaluation copy of the
software can be downloaded from the World Wide Web at
http://www.motionpixels.com/. 

Motion Pixels is a software-only codec that comprises a Compressor and
Player to provide state-of-the-art, full-motion video compression and
decompression. "Many computer professionals have compared the quality of
the Motion Pixels image to that of VHS video," Fidler said. 

"While many multimedia analysts predicted that the industry was still years
away from attaining high quality results from software compression, our
technology is ready now," stated Phillip Lowry, Vice President Of Business
Development. Applications which could benefit from Motion Pixels
technology include interactive on-line services with real-time video,
interactive CD-ROMs which utilize video, feature films on CD-ROM,
affordable teleconferencing, and video-on-demand. "More than just
providing the video compression solution, Motion Pixels offers multimedia
developers an expanded marketplace and consumer acceptance," Lowry said. 

Darrell Smith, Vice President of Product Development, stated that the time
and file space required to compress digital video varies widely depending
on frame size and rate, video motion content, and color depth. "By placing
a majority of the digital signal processing work into the Compressor
program, Motion Pixels renders high-quality audio and video with a choice
of playback screen sizes," Smith said. 

The playback program offers 12 resizing options, including original size,
four-times, and nine-times enlargement, with color choices of 256, 32K,
and grayscale. Additionally, five screen resolution modes ranging from 320
x 200 to 1024 x 768 are available. "Motion Pixels technology", continued
Smith, "allows us to enlarge a video image four-fold without loss of
picture quality, nor creation of pixel-doubling artifacts." 

The Motion Pixels Compressor program provides the user with adjustable
controls that until now were available only on hardware-based compressors:
five color-subsampling settings, interframe compression adjustments for
edge and color distance, background filtering, and a sliding scale for
gamma (color) correction. 

"This is the first software-based codec that provides such a robust set of
compression controls in one process," said Smith. "The benefit is quicker
turnaround time for compression, since other methods require separate
steps for many of the controls built into the Motion Pixels Compressor." 

Unlike other announced software codecs, which require high speed Pentium
processors for optimum playback performance, Motion Pixels will play on
486 DX2 processors, accessing video files from a double-speed CD-ROM
drive. Two versions of the playback program allow the Motion Pixels Player
to run under Video for Windows or to be used for interactive applications.
Playback can be run under Windows 3.1, Windows For Workgroups 3.11, and
will produce exceptional performance under the new Windows '95. 

Motion Pixels plans to offer a compression service for those clients who do
not have their own video compression facilities, or to meet special
requirements. The service will produce compressed digital video in Motion
Pixels format from any of the following sources: Digital Betacam, Betacam,
Super VHS, and Hi-8 formats. The compressed video will be returned to the
client on CD-ROM or DAT media. 

Motion Pixels Inc
7320 East Butherus Drive, Suite 100
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 USA
Tel: 602.951.3288,  Fax: 602.951.2683
 
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