TI is banging the drum for their DaVinci DSP software - but at $2.20 per part, is anyone going to be buying?

Press Release: DTS Introduces the Advanced DTS Digital Cinema Encoder(TM); First to Employ JPEG 2000 ‘Constant Quality’ Encoding for D-Cinema

Another CodeProject article that adds zip and unzip capabilities to your Win32 projects.

In Jasper mailing list, Greg Coats announced avalilability of new GeoJapser binaries with both native code for PowerPC based Macs and native code for Intel based Mac.

A Reuters article explains how, in some ways, the digital future of movie theatres isn’t quite here yet. Despite the push for new technology in the projection booth, theaters have been slow to adopt the new and expensive gear.

Februray 2006 issue of the Data Compression Newsletter.

IIPimage is a client-server system for the remote viewing of ultra-high resolution images over the internet. Their demo of NASA’s incredible ultra high resolution Marble Earth image at 86400 x 43200 pixels is probably the biggest single image ever made available online!

ON DEMAND Electronics has a CPU designed for modern TVs, and if you don’t mind, could you please design it in to your product line?

The annual Data Compression Conference in Snowbird, Utah is scheduled for March 28 - 30, 2006. Detailed conference program is available.

Updated: Jürgen Kirsch dropped by to tell us that Intel has developed an alternative implementation, “Slicing by Eight” (SB8), for error checking code CRC. SB8 is significantly faster for software implementations.