What is DVI, exactly?

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From: Alasdair Grant
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:43

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I always assumed DVI was a particular compression technology developed 
by RCA (being the first technology that could play FMV from input at   
CD-ROM speeds) then bought by Intel, who put a couple of chips on a 
board to implement this algorithm. Then I read

> From: teoallan@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Allan TEO)
>This chip was supposed to be the successor to the PB/DB silicon on the current
>AM-II boards, and would have made DVI processing fast and powerful enough to 
>do real time MPEG decompression, Px64, PLV X.X,,RTV X.X, as well as a whole 

"DVI processing" "doing real time MPEG decompression"??? What exactly does
this mean? Is DVI now just another name for the ActionMedia II boards, or
is it some code name for "IBM/Intel's strategic multimedia hardware"?
Please help...

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Subject: What is DVI, exactly?
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