Video compression hardware manufactured by Intel for PC computers. The i750 chipset will capture 32-by-240 pixel windows at 15 fps and 160-by-120 pixel windows at 30 fps. Creative Labs (that markets the popular Sound Blaster and Video Blaster hardware/software) will now market the Indeo boards according to NewMedia, January 1994, p. 36. The main competitor for Indeo will be
MPEG compression boards that are anticipated by analysts to be the major standard of the future.
Hood (1994) is cautious about
MPEG and leans toward the Intel Indeo option. He concludes: "Intel's most compelling arugument, however, is in the numbers. Machines capable of playing Indeo video (486 or Pentium) are selling at a rate of 1 million a month, whereas fewer than 200,000
MPEG boards have sold." (See also
Video for Windows,
QuickTime,
Video,
DVI,
Compression,
MCI,
Ultimedia Video, and
MPEG)
