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CD-ROM drives were just coming to market in 1990 , and it was difficult to concisely communicate to a consumer all the hardware requirements for using "multimedia software", which mostly meant "displaying video on a PC via a CD-ROM drive". The MPC standard was supposed to communicate this concisely, so a consumer buying hardware or software could simply look for the MPC logo and be assured of compatibility. The MPC program was never a success and it is rare today to see software or hardware labeled with the term "MPC". As the standardized term failed to catch on, and as the Software Publishers Association turned away from consumer software in the late 1990s , interest in the MPC standard vanished. The problem of software labeling continues, especially in the field of Computer Games , where a plethora of 3D video cards has been manufactured with an extremely wide range of display capabilities, and no common industry labeling standard to let consumers know whether their card is powerful enough to let them play a particular game. The first MPC minimum standard, set in 1990, was:
In 1993, an MPC Level 2 minimum standard was announced:
In 1996, MPC Level 3 was announced:
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