Intel Expands Web Developer Product Line

Animated Effects, Rich Video and Audio Content Bring Web Pages to Life

LOS ANGELES, March 11, 1998 -- Intel Corporation announced today that it is expanding its Web developer tool offerings with the introduction of Intel Web Design Effects and Intel Indeo® Media Kit, two new products that will help Web designers deliver animated effects, and rich audio and video content to Web pages.

Intel Web Design Effects is a design tool that allows Web developers to create animated effects. The easy-to-use software uses a single bitmap to create low-bandwidth and realistic animated effects such as fire, rain, smoke or other customized effects.

Intel Indeo Media Kit is a software package that provides innovative progressive download technology and audio and video tools for Web developers to produce high-quality multimedia content. The scaleable technology not only improves the quality and speed of downloading, it also allows the user to preview the transfer or view the downloaded file at a later time.

"Intel's family of Web developer products provide our customers with software tools to produce and deliver high-quality, compelling animated effects and rich content over the Internet," said Don Whiteside, general manager of Intel's Digital Imaging and Video Division.

Intel Web Design Effects
Intel Web Design Effects is a tool set that enables Web developers to create non-repeating, realistic animated effects for Web pages. Unlike traditional animated effects which are performed by delivering multiple bitmap sequences, Intel Web Design Effects uses the PC's processor to generate animated effects from a single bitmap on the client system. The results are animated effects that use less bandwidth.

Intel Web Design Effects is based on technology developed by Intel Architecture Labs. It uses procedural textures, a graphic engineering technique that alters the noise, turbulence and harmonics of a single bitmap palette. Mathematical equations change a source image, or bitmap palette known as a seed, into a variety of animated effects.

Full Featured and Easy to Use
With Intel's easy-to-use Web Design Effects, Web designers can select or create an effect, choose an image, mask the area to be animated, and then combine the content to produce a desired animated effect. It includes a number of ready-made animated effects, as well as tools to create, customize and store additional effects. Animated effects produced with Intel Web Design Effects are optimized for the Pentium® II processor and scale to Pentium processor speed.

The hardware requirements to use Intel Web Design Effects include a Pentium processor running at 90 MHz or greater, 16 MB RAM, and Windows* 95 or Windows NT* 4.0 or greater.

Intel Indeo Media Kit
The Intel Indeo Media Kit is a software package that allows Web developers to produce and deliver scaleable video clips via the Internet. The kit includes Intel's Progressive Download Publisher, Indeo Video 5.0 and Indeo Audio codec.

Progressive Download Publisher
Progressive Download Publisher delivers high-quality, scaleable video over the Web that improves video quality and frame rate as the download progresses. Viewers can preview and choose at which quality to save the video. Then, they can continue browsing while the high-quality video completes its download in the background.

Indeo Video 5.0
Indeo Video is a video codec that offers compression and video playback performance enhancements for Intel MMX™ technology and Pentium II processor.

Indeo Audio
Indeo Audio is an audio codec that provides high-quality compressed voice and music for the Internet, intranet and multimedia applications.

Intel Indeo Media Kit is available through online resellers at support.intel.com/support/technologies/multimedia/indeo/mediakit/order.htm. The manufacturer's suggested retail price is $149 U.S.

The hardware requirements to use Intel Indeo Media Kit include a Pentium processor running at 90 MHz or greater, 16 MB RAM, and Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 or greater.

Intel Smart Video Recorder III
Intel Smart Video Recorder III, a current developer product, is an affordable video-content creation package. It includes an Intel video capture card and software tools for capturing, compressing and editing video. The manufacturer's suggested retail price is $199 U.S.

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