Friday, April 20, 2007

April News - News from NAB

April News - NAB News

Kulabyte, a leading provider of advanced audio and video processing technologies, announced that it will be shipping the industry’s fastest video encoding solution, Kulabyte Professional Flash Encoding Suite. The Kulabyte Professional encoding solutions enable faster-than-real-time video encoding, enabling noticeably improved picture quality and significant bandwidth savings, while utilizing industry standard codec engines. Media creators can encode, and distribute digital content at speeds more than 12 times faster than industry-standard codec times and deliver higher picture qualities. more


HollywoodUpClose allows users to access thousands of the Net's best celebrity media sources through one easy to navigate destination. In addition to a multimedia search engine, HollywoodUpClose is a portal that aggregates Web-wide celebrity and entertainment news, photos, and videos, featuring movie trailers, interviews, red carpet footage, music videos, outtakes, and more. The content is categorized into tabs: TV Celebrities, Movie Celebrities, The Infamous, Music Celebrities, Athletes, Reality Celebrities, and Models, making it easy for fans to locate content on their favorite luminaries. more


Crisp Wireless, a mobile technology solutions and services company, and Internet Broadcasting, the nation's largest publisher of local news online, today announced the launch of 29 mobile Web sites, creating one of the nation’s largest mobile networks of local TV station sites. more


The MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF) today announced the “Advanced Video Services in Next Generation Video Ecosystems” full-day Master Class at NAB2007 in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 15. Held in conjunction with the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), this special event will explore how new technologies are changing the way digital multimedia is created, compressed, delivered and monetized. A number of business and technology leaders at the forefront of next-generation networks will share their experiences and unique industry insights at this year’s Master Class. more


Kulabyte, a leading provider of advanced audio and video processing technologies, and AMD, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the Kulabyte Professional Encoding Suite powered by Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors in an 8-socket server configuration is the industry’s fastest video encoder solution utilizing standard codec engines like On2 Flash, VC-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.

Kulabyte’s TimeSlice™ technology delivers faster than real-time encoding, noticeably improved picture quality and significant bandwidth savings, while utilizing industry standard codec engines. When deployed with dual-core AMD Opteron processors, tests show that 16-core encoding servers deliver a 60% increase in speed and efficiency over competitive multi-core processing platforms, which are currently limited to a maximum of 8-cores in a single server. Digital media creators can encode, and distribute digital content at speeds more than 12 times faster than industry-standard codec times at comparable prices. These AMD advantages scale and become greater as more AMD processor cores are added to the encode pipeline resulting in greater customer benefit.

With Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, code-named “Barcelona,” on the horizon, Kulabyte plans to scale a single video encode solution from a current industry-leading 16 cores to 32 cores. The Kulabyte solution powered by AMD Opteron processors consistently outperforms the competition in SD and HD video compression by as much as 10% in similarly configured comparisons, when tested against the same number of cores. more


Envivio Inc. introduced its ultra high compression Extreme Encoding Core™ (XEC™) technology. Envivio® XEC technology improves video quality and provides an expanded compression toolset for IPTV, mobile TV, Internet TV, HDTV and broadcast applications. The dramatic improvements in picture quality realized by the new technology will be demonstrated in the Envivio booth #SU12105 at NAB2007. Combining a software based compression core with server-based hardware, XEC technology delivers both a toolset and a mechanism for delivering the highest picture quality in the lowest available bandwidth on the market. more


The new DT-150 HD Canobeam transceiver is designed for situations where fiber-optic cables or microwave are impractical and/or the simplicity of Free Space Optics is preferred. The DT-150 HD Canobeam uses infrared light to bridge gaps in high-bandwidth transmission situations. The DT-150 HD Canobeam provides bi-directional, uncompressed 1.5 Gbps transmission of embedded digital video, audio, and camera-control signals on a single HD-SDI or SD-SDI stream with no delay. more


InStat report about mobile TV growth says that the unavailability of spectrum is the largest barrier to the launch of more mobile TV services, particularly in Europe, the high-tech market research firm says. more


Media Links Inc., a provider of high-definition video transport solutions today announced the release of its latest product in a line-up of HD processing and transport solutions. The HD-GigE delivers HD, SDI or DVB-ASI video signals over a standard Gigabit Ethernet interface further reinforcing IP network cost advantages and economies of scale. The HD-GigE is capable of correcting packet loss as well as adjusting the IP bandwidth when video is no longer present. more


The new Canon DIGISUPER 100AF and DIGISUPER 86AF* auto-focus long-field HD zoom lenses feature sophisticated auto-focus capabilities based on a proprietary HD implementation of Through-the-Lens Secondary Image Registration Phase Detection Method technology. These new lenses will be featured at the Canon booth #SU 3020 at NAB2007, the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, held April 14-19 in Las Vegas. more


The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation (TASF) is asking innovative filmmakers from around the world to submit their work for inclusion in the Tupac Amaru Shakur Film Festival. This year's festival is scheduled to take place on November 10, 2007 at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts in Atlanta, Georgia. more


I-Movix, a growing Belgium-based company with newly opened subsidiaries in San José, California and Tokyo, Japan, will unveil the never-before-seen SprintCam® at NAB 2007 in Las Vegas April 14-19. The slow-motion server and software equipment has the unsurpassed ability to capture, replay and store extreme slow-motion shots in real time, allowing you to replay 250 to 5000 images per second in high-definition quality. more



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Webby Awards - the nominations for The 11th Annual Webby Awards will be announced on Tuesday, April 10th at 9am ET (via emailed press released and online at www.webbyawards.com). Nominees will be unveiled for categories, such as Blog, Social Networking, and Podcast, as well as for the first-ever Webby Film and Video Awards, which honor original film and video that premiered on the Internet. more

NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading 3D animation and video products, announced the release of TriCaster™, a portable LIVE production suite for event videographers, corporate presenters, educators and media ministry users. The easy-to-use interface of TriCaster is designed to allow users who aren’t full-time video professionals to produce quality live presentations, web casts and video. With over 200 transition effects, PowerPoint support, template driven titles, real-time switching, and editing, TriCaster allows the user to bring dynamic live elements to their presentations within minutes of opening the box. The Tricaster offers 3 standard composite and Y/C camera input connections along with Mic and standard audio inputs - to produce a three camera live production. The output can be recorded, presented or streamed. more


Want to speed up creation of your Flash videos? Check out Kulabyte.

Kulabyte and On2 Technologies announce Licensing of On2 VP6 for Adobe® Flash® video for Kulabyte™ Professional Encoding Solution Suite. 16 times faster encoding speeds possible for popular VP6 for Flash video content with Kulabyte multi-core processing technology over standard encoding hardware platforms more