Real Magic
RealMagic, from Sigma Designs, was one of the first fully compliant MPEG playback boards on the market in the mid-90s. An ISA board, it operated as a pass through video board that combined an MPEG video stream into a computer's regular display signal, using special software to scale and align the MPEG video into windows onscreen
In their early days, RealMagic boards were called ReelMagic.
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