It enabled full-screen, full motion video, as well as stereo audio, still images, and graphics to be presented on a DOS-based desktop computer using a special compression chipset.
[2] When General Electric purchased RCA in 1986, GE considered the DSRC redundant with its own labs, and sought a buyer.
[2] DVI technology allowed full-screen, full motion digital video, as well as stereo audio, still images, and graphics to be presented on a DOS-based desktop computer.
The excitement at the time stemmed from the fact that a CD-ROM drive of the era had a maximum data playback rate of ~1.2 Mbit/s, thought to be insufficient for good quality motion video.
However, the DSRC team was able to extract motion video, stereo audio and still images from this relatively low data rate with good quality.
Later DVI implementations used one, more highly integrated card, such as Intel's ActionMedia series (omitting the CD-ROM interface).