A popular buzzword has been “convergence”—the intersection of various technologies that were previously unrelated. One of the key elements of multimedia convergence in the home and business has been video. A few short years ago, the applications for video were somewhat confined—analog broadcast and cable television, analog VCRs, analog settop boxes with limited functionality, and simple analog video capture for the personal computer (PC). Since then, there has been a tremendous and rapid conversion to digital video, mostly based on the MPEG and DV (Digital Video) standards.……