Beam International Limited today announced a special E3 introductory offer to developers wishing to use its software-only video compression and playback technology.
VideoBeam  compression technology has been used in games published by Sega, Interplay, Crystal Dynamics and Melbourne House. This offer is designed to introduce the technology to other developers and publishers.
"VideoBeam is especially well suited for computer-generated graphics and cartoon graphics", commented Adam Lancman, Beam International's Managing Director, "and we think people will be very excited once they see the results for themselves."
The limited time offer allows any developer or publisher for the PC, Saturn or Macintosh to use VideoBeam for one title only on a no-charge and royalty-free basis.
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"We are confident that developers will prefer this technology both from a results point of view and from an ease of installation point of view", continued Adam Lancman.
VideoBeam technology is fully user-configurable, including final data size, frame rate, sound quality and allows video data to be interlaced with other data. VideoBeam is suitable for DOS, Windows 95, Macintosh and Sega Saturn. The same data stream can be played back on all the supported platforms, resulting in significant cost savings for cross-platform developers.
VideoBeam will be shown over the E3 period at booth #4563.
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