SINGAPORE, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative Technology, a leading provider of video products for the PC and Macintosh platforms, has announced Video Blaster FS200, the next generation Video Blaster add-in card.
    Like its best-selling predecessor, Video Blaster FS200 is a digital video capture and overlay card that adds live as well as digitized video to multimedia applications from sources including video cameras, VCRs and Laserdiscs.  New features include pixel interpolation which allows for full motion and full screen playback, chroma and color keying, special effects such as flip and fade, resolution of up to 800X600 at 64K colors and no RAM limitation.
    "Video Blaster FS200 has been redesigned to drive the multimedia video standard to a new level," said Hock Leow, vice president of video product marketing for Creative Technology.  "By providing full screen, full motion video playback and high-end features at an affordable pricepoint, Video Blaster FS200 redefines PC video capture for professional as well as amateur video end-users."
    Enhanced Features
    Video Blaster FS200 allows users to integrate video with enhanced features in both hardware and software.  Advanced software features enable direct output of images to a laser printer, saving user-defined image size to a file and vice versa, as well as copying an image to and from the clipboard.
    Enhanced hardware features of Video Blaster FS200 include pixel interpolation which allows for full screen, full motion playback of video files.  In addition, there is no longer a 16 MB RAM limitation, enabling Video Blaster FS200 and 16 MB RAM to co-exist on one system for increased productivity.  Video Blaster FS200 also supports S-video input for higher quality video display.
    Image Overlay and Manipulation
    Video Blaster FS200 incorporates a number of new features that provide users with creative control and integration of video files. Users can export live video to other applications utilizing the newly added chroma and color key features.  Re-size, flip, fade and crop image capabilities are also available.
    Video Blaster FS200 will be available during the first quarter of 1994 at a suggested retail price of $499.95.
    Creative TVCoder
    Coupled with Creative's recently introduced Creative TVCoder, a cost-effective VGA-to-Video signal encoder, Video Blaster FS200 allows users to simultaneously display onscreen images on a regular TV or record them to VCR.  This complete desktop video system is ideal for creating demonstrations, tutorials and home movies.
    Creative Technology Ltd develops, manufactures and markets a family of sound and video multimedia products for IBM-compatible PCs. The company's Sound Blaster sound platform enables IBM-compatible PCs to produce high-quality audio for entertainment, educational, music and productivity applications, and has been accepted as the de facto industry standard sound platform for PC-based software.
    Creative Technology Ltd was incorporated in 1983 and is based in Singapore.  Creative Labs, Inc., the company's primary U.S. subsidiary, is located in Milpitas, Calif.  Creative Technology Ltd also has other subsidiaries in the U.S., U.K., Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and China.  The company's stock is traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol CREAf.
    NOTE:  Creative TVCoder, Sound Blaster and Video Blaster are trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd.  All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners are hereby recognized as such.
    -0-                      11/15/93
    /CONTACT:  Steffanee White of Creative Labs, 408-428-6600; or Michele Janin of Cunningham Communication, 408-982-0400/
    (CREAf)