LSI Logic Corp has teamed up with TV/COM International Inc, San Diego supplier of equipment used by cable companies, satellite operators and business television users, for the joint development of digital compression components for the satellite, cable and direct broadcast satellite television industries: the products will be designed to facilitate the transition from analogue to digital television, and they will be based on the Motion Picture Experts Group-2 standard, which is currently undergoing the formal standardisation procedure by a committee of the International Standards Organisation; TV/COM International is the company that was formerly called Oak Communications.