Microsoft and Toshiba Work Together to Enable DVD 16 December, 1997
Microsoft Corp. REDMOND, Wash., and TOKYO - Dec. 16, 1997 - Microsoft Corp. and Toshiba Corp. have worked together closely to bring the superior attributes of DVD to the Microsoft Windows 98 operating system utilizing Toshiba hardware. This DVD support will appear in beta 3 of Windows 98. "Users of Windows are increasingly demanding a very high-quality audio and video experience," said Bill Veghte, general manager, Windows 98 at Microsoft. "This experience is a key focus for us, and with Windows 98 we are taking a big step forward. For the mainstream marketplace, DVD defines the best audio and video experience today, and the relationship with Toshiba has helped us deliver a great DVD platform for the PC industry." Windows 98 provides an end-to-end architecture for DVD, which includes a DVD-ROM device driver, UDF file system, DVD navigation and playback applications, a WDM-based streaming architecture, and support in the DirectX set of APIs for great video playback. Not only does Windows 98 provide great support for DVD video titles, it supports a new breed of highly interactive titles based on the DirectX Media and the Direct ShowTM DVD APIs. Toshiba helped Microsoft build support for DVD navigation and is providing Microsoft with a DVD decoder minidriver, player application and DirectShow-based sample code. The Toshiba DVD board incorporating Toshiba's Timpani-I TC81203TB single-chip DVD system processor was used as a reference design in the development process. Timpani-I integrates all of the critical functionality required for high quality, including MPEG 2 video decoding and video mixing, hardware-based CSS copy protection processing, subpicture decoding and digital video port support as well as audio and video interfaces and a PCI interface. "Toshiba welcomes Windows 98 support for DVD," said Haruhiko Banno, general manager of the PC division at Toshiba Corp. "As one of the world's leading PC manufacturers and a DVD technology leader, we have no doubt that DVD will soon become a core feature of PCs. We are excited about this relationship, which I am confident will provide a trigger for a rapid expansion of both the DVD and PC industries." About Toshiba About Microsoft
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