Cambridge, UK-based Acorn Computers Plc says it will demo Acorn Replay, a new full motion video system, at the BETT ’92 exhibition in London next week: the system supports simultaneous audio and video, running up to 25 frames per second, from a high-capacity storage device, in real time; the system features a data compression technique relying on the redundancy between successive video frames, achieving compression factors of 25 to 40; the software decompression algorithm runs in real time on all Acorn Archimedes computers with a minimum 2Mb memory and CD-ROM drive; it is also possible to grab a frame for pasting onto other desktop applications; Acorn is working with third party developers to build applications incorporating Replay; the first CD-ROM titles should be commercially available from April.
