Smart & Friendly Inc, Chatsworth, California has integrated the MPEG Creation Station Mark II and priced it at at $2,000. In a pact with Incat Systems Inc, it created the $900 CD-R1002/Pro CD-Recording system, and the Creation Station includes FAST Electronic Inc’s FPS/60 video capture board bundled with Xing Technologies Inc CD MPEG encode software, a Smart & Friendly CD-R 1002 dual-speed CD-Recorder with Adaptec Inc controller, Macromedia Inc’s Director 4.0 and Authorware Star and the Xing MPEG Player for software-only playback of MPEG audio and video. With the MPEG Creation Station Mark II kit, CD creators can turn their personal computers into a tool that will enable them to develop and edit their own disk content. Incat Easy CD Pro software is used to write the contents to a compact disk in the specified format using the Smart & Friendly CD-R 1002 double-speed CD-Recorder. The Xing MPEG Player enables viewing of MPEG clips in real time without the need for special MPEG hardware. Smart & Friendly joined with Incat Systems to put together the CD-R1002/Pro CD-Recording system, which is due this month. It includes an internal double-speed CD-Recorder that functions as both recorder and CD-ROM reader, a 650Mb CD-R disk, an Adaptec SCSI host adaptor and the multi-system Incat software. Easy-CD Pro 95/NT is a native 32-bit application for Windows95 and Windows NT that supports the ISO 9660, CD-DA, Mixed Mode, Mode 1, Mode 2, CD-ROM XA and CD-i formats, plus long file names and multithreading. For Windows 3.1 environments, the Easy CD Pro MM supports HFS, CD-DA, Mixed Mode, CD-ROM XA and CD-i formats.
