The Multimedia division of Bradford, West Yorkshire-based Microvitec Plc has unveiled its new MPEG decompression board named MovieMedia, designed to enable video quality full motion video with compact disk-quality sound. It enables up to 74 minutes of video and stereo audio to be replayed on a personal computer from CD-ROM and features 32,000 colours, composite video output. on-board VGA, overlay of MPEG video on graphics and fully sizable and positional Window. It provides full screen, full motion PAL or NTSC video and stereo audio from MPEG digital audio and video files. The decompression chip being used is the C-Cube Microsystems Inc CL450 and the video overlay chip set is the Trident PC Plus. Microvitek is not making the boards, but they are being made in the UK by an unnamed company. Full launch is expected in September.
