Intel Corp has bought General Electric Co’s Digital Video Interactive technology and plans to implement it in silicon, it is believed. The company is expected to announce its plans tomorrow, Friday. Digital Video Interactive, developed at the RCA David Sarnoff Laboratories, is a technique for compressing video images for display on a computer screen and is designed for storing images on multi-media interactive Compact Disk-Read-Only Memories. It eanables 72 minutes of full-motion video, advanced graphics and audio to be stored on a standard 5.25 optical disk. Microsoft Corp and Lotus Development Corp in March joined Intel in agreeing to support the proposed standard (CI No 880).
