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[TVover.net] Envivio 4Caster C4 Encoder Passes Testing for Microsoft Mediaroom ...: Designed as an integrated solution for IPTV, Internet TV and Mobile TV applications, the 4Caster C4 supports digital, analog and MPEG-2 Transport Stream over IP inputs, and a range of video and audio encoding options to support efficient delivery of content to the Three Screens. The 4Caster C4 supports a wide range of encoding formats including the Chinese AVS video compression standard.

[Ben Waggoner] The Hopefully Definitive "is VC-1 compatible with WMV 9?" FAQ ...: All that said, there is one last practical difference between WMV 9 and VC-1: Encoders that call it VC-1 are normally based on the newer, faster, higher quality, more flexible VC-1 Encoder SDK. This isn’t about a change in the codec standard, just the usual improvement of encoder implementations over time, like we saw with the Format SDK 9, 9,5, and 11 releases, and will be seeing again in future releases.

[IPTV News] IPTV Encoder Award: South San Francisco, CA – Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, today announced that it has been awarded the prestigious 2008 TelcoTV Vision Award for its 4Caster C4 Three Screens multi-channel, multi-profile encoder for IPTV, Internet TV and Mobile TV applications. Selection was spearheaded by a panel of industry experts who sought to identify the year's most innovative product among all encoding technologies for mobile or terrestrial applications.

[TVover.net] Envivio Encoder Wins TelcoTV 2008 Vision Award - TVover.net: The 4Caster C4 convergence encoding system is the world's first to provide video compression for all Three Screens of consumer video - TVs, PCs and mobile devices - on a single platform. Designed to enable fixed line and mobile network operators to deliver content simultaneously across the full range of consumer devices, the 4Caster C4 is able to take multiple channels of content and encode them simultaneously to deliver multiple mobile TV profiles, multiple Internet TV profiles, or SD and HD IPTV profiles.

[Avid, Final Cut Pro, and Streaming Training Courses] Envivio 4Caster C4 Encoder Passes Conformance Testing for ...: "Our Interoperability and Qualification Lab was designed to givethe world's leading IPTV service providers the best choice ofcarrier-grade encoding platforms that are fully compatible withMicrosoft Mediaroom," said Dan McCrary, director of the global partnerecosystem for Microsoft Mediaroom. "The commitment of key vendors likeEnvivio to this important quality assurance process is fundamental tothe proven excellence of Mediaroom-powered services and their continuedsuccess with consumers."

[Web TV Wire] Bill Gates talks about the end of TV - But it won’t be Microsoft TV: The most exciting development in the works is IPTV on the Xbox 360 which is probably what Bill Gates is actually warming us up for here (without directly mentioning it). But IPTV on the Xbox 360 will actually be very similar to a cable or satellite subscription service and not something that will connect you with the world of internet television.

[Engadget HD] DivX is not 100% in love with Xbox 360's tone right now, or its ...: using Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 and encoding HD files, DivX gives me better image quality *AND* reduces encoding time 30% - 70%. I believe it's using DivX 6.8.5, but I have it running in the backround right now on a 6 hour encode, so I can't check to be sure.

[StreamingMedia.com: Featured Articles Feed] Streamingmedia.com: Testing the New Windows Media Encoding Profiles: Second, Microsoft also exposed a number of encoding options previously unavailable to those producing Windows Media Video files with either the Main or Advanced Profiles. They're not particularly convenient to use at this time, but in some instances they deliver noticeably improved quality over files produced with the default parameters.

[Robin Good\'s Sharewood Tidings] IPTV vs. Internet Television: Key Differences - Robin Good's ...: IPTV is particularly good for the established media content production business, including Hollywood and all of the major television distribution networks on satellite and cable. IPTV allows these organizations to have total control of the content distributed and to greatly reduce opportunities for theft and piracy, which last year cost the cable industry $4.76 billion in unrealized revenue.

[The Celtx Blog] The Celtx Blog: An Easy Guide to Video Formats and Codecs [Gizmodo]: Also known as H.262, since it was developed jointly by the ITU-T and ISO, MPEG-2 is an extension of MPEG-1 that delivers better resolution and higher bit rates (3-15Mbps for standard def and 15-30Mbps for HD). It's the video codec used by DVD and digital television, though now it's slowly being replaced by the more efficient MPEG-4, except on DVDs, where it'll ride out that disc format's lifetime.

[Bits] Movies in a Box: Blockbuster Offers Download Device - Bits Blog ...: Through many steps in about 14 months, the bill ultimately rested at $344 per month for the data line, for 4 Analog TV’s at $61.00 per TV per month plus enhanced digital service with roughly $8.00 per month per boxe that we never ordered and they kept sending to us, and we kept sending them back,, at our expense becasue we had complained that they took away Turner Classic Movies and moved it to DIgital and tossed in all kinds of Comcast produced channels for extra value including one with the elderly mom of the President of Comcast doing her best on a Barbara Walters type interview show…and we paid for that?.

[RoughlyDrafted/Tech] Readers Write About Media Center, Apple TV, HDTV: The article identified a key difference between Media Center Extenders and Apple TV: Microsoft requires the content be on a special Media Center PC, while Apple TV works from any computer running the free iTunes, on the PC or Mac. That means buyers looking at both options would need to factor in the cost of buying an entire new Media Center PC setup just to use the Xbox 360 in the capacity of an Apple TV.

[InteractiveTV Today] [itvt] Presents...The TV of Tomorrow Show 2009: Microsoft TV claims that the accelerated growth rate has occurred at the same time as customers have begun to maximize the functionality of Mediaroom in their IPTV deployments, turning on such features as personalized weather and sports information, the ability to play back standard- and high-definition recorded programming on any connected TV in the home, and the ability to set a DVR remotely via a PC or mobile device. In September, for example, AT&T, whose Mediaroom-powered U-verse service claimed 781,000 subscribers at the end of the third quarter, launched a service called Total Home DVR, based on Mediaroom's DVR Anywhere technology, and has now rolled it out to its entire footprint.

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