IBM ANNOUNCES PRICE REDUCTIONS AND ENHANCEMENTS TO ACTIONMEDIA II

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., June 29, 1993 . . . IBM today is announcing price
reductions and upcoming enhancements to its ActionMedia II product family.
The ActionMedia II Display Adapter/A 2MB for microchannel architecture
PS/2's and the ActionMedia II Display Adapter 2MB for ISA personal
computers is now priced at $995, a 41 percent price reduction. The
ActionMedia II Capture Option is now priced at $499, a 31 percent price
reduction.

"The ActionMedia II price reductions and upcoming enhancements announced
today provide an improved price/value relationship for the development of
digital multimedia applications," said Ed Jenny, multimedia product
manager, IBM US Marketing.

The ActionMedia II product family enables digital full-motion video, audio,
and still images to be captured, compressed, stored and displayed on 386
and 486 microprocessor-based computers, along with graphics and text. The
ActionMedia II display adapter also provides the capability to accelerate
Intel Corporation's Indeo software motion video when using Microsoft's
Video for Windows software. Indeo acceleration with ActionMedia II and
Video for Windows can provide improved motion video quality at up to 30
frames/second, full screen, 320x240 resolution. The acceleration
capability not only offers improved video quality but also has added
advantage in off-loading video processing requirements from the
microprocessor thus freeing it for other tasks.

Planned ActionMedia II enhancements include microcode improvements to
increase functionality of ActionMedia II adapters, as well as enhanced
software interfaces for developers. Additionally, the ActionMedia II
product family should evolve to support emerging standards for stored
video and video-conferencing. This will entail software and/or hardware
changes, as required.

ActionMedia II received "Best of Show" and "Best MultiMedia Product" awards
at fall Comdex 1991 and also won the CD-ROM Professional "Hardware
Development Product of the Year" for 1992. The accelerated evolution of
microprocessors and the increased use of software motion video
technologies have created new opportunities for desktop PC's. The
ActionMedia II product family is positioned to exploit those
opportunities.

International Business Machines Corp
IBM United States
1133 Westchester Ave, White Plains, NY 10604

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