Radius has rewritten the software for RadiusTV and ImpressIt to take
advantage of QuickTime features, including:
- A time-management control system for synchronizing data
- Interface guidelines for hardware products
- Drivers for multimedia peripherals such as CD-ROM drives
- Built-in video editing
By supporting QuickTime, RadiusTV will be compatible with all other
QuickTime compatible multimedia software applications. Previously,
software applications required a special driver for compatibility with
RadiusTV. Now, an application software developer can write a single
QuickTime-compatible driver for a program to obtain compatibility with all
QuickTime compatible multimedia hardware products like RadiusTV.
ImpressIt, Radius' still-image compression software, has been designed to
integrate seamlessly with QuickTime. Users may elect to have ImpressIt
automatically compress images when saved to a hard disk, rendering
the entire compression process transparent.
RadiusTV
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RadiusTV is a multimedia hardware and software platform that blends an
array of audio and visual sources on the computer. RadiusTV features a
video processing engine and an external audio-video input processor and
television tuner -- to bring television functionality into the Macintosh
environment.
RadiusTV is capable of displaying and digitizing live 16-bit video images
in real-time (30 frames/sec) in a resizable window of up to 640 x 480
pixels. RadiusTV also digitizes sound in real time and provides access to
information included in the television signal's vertical retrace interval
(such as closed captions and calibration settings), making complete
Macintosh control and processing possible. RadiusTV also includes
Theatrics, a software package that allows image processing on captured
images.
ImpressIt
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ImpressIt is a Macintosh software compression product for color and
grayscale still images. The fastest software solution available today,
ImpressIt can compress images by up to 100 times. ImpressIt is based on
the JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) standard. A 24-bit 750K color
image can be compressed to 25K in under 3 seconds when run on a Macintosh
IIfx.