Wednesday, April 02, 2024 22:04 PST - MPEG-4 News Digest weeks 12, 13, 2003

MPEG-4 News Readers,

M4IF is busy gearing up for NAB 2003. M4IF's homepage temporarily sports a separate section with MPEG-4 / NAB news. We will have an online show guide shortly; more news will follow on this list. Leonardo Chiariglione, MPEG's Convenor, will open NAB's Broadcast Engineering Conference Sunday morning. Together with SMPTE, Monday afternoon, M4IF organizes MPEG - Enabling Broadcast and Media Convergence from 13:00-17:00 on Monday Sept. 7th, as a part of the Broadcast Engineering Conference. Monday evening, M4IF and IBM co-sponsor the Multimedia World Reception.

Meantime, we are happy to welcome VBrick Systems as its newest member, and our website is undergoing minor upgrades. We're adding a third column that will hold a variety of handy links. Added today was the new White Paper on High Efficiency AAC, the most efficient audio codec in existence. More such material will be posted shortly. Check it out!

On to the news. I never did the statistics, but again there is more and more news. (You can do the stats yourself using our archive, but note that we are getting much more selective these days in listing news items). The pattern continues: more CE devices supporting MPEG-4, more wireless devices and services, more support in chips and programmable hardware. MPEG's press release once again highlights the news that the Advanced Video Coding standard - a.k.a. H.264 - is now final and ready for implementation. Expect some demos at NAB.

ISMA's recent news that the group is finalizing it's encryption spec is significant: it's another step towards interoperable DRM for MPEG-4. This will make the standard more attractive for publishers of valuable content. More steps to interoperable Digital Rights Management are being taken in MPEG-21.

If you are going to NAB, be sure to come see us at Booth SL 2455, where M4IF shares a booth with its members Ahead Software, Prodys and Fraunhofer, the last of which also has some MPEG-7 technology on display!

Rob Koenen

News on MPEG-4

• Camera phone could come calling [EE Times, 28 Mar 03]
• DivX Gets Physical [Commverge Magazine, 26 Mar 03]
• Review: Sony CLIE PEG-NZ90 [TechTV, 26 Mar 03]
• JVC Highlights GY-DV5000U [UE Media, 25 Mar 03]
• Nokia Ireland previews new handsets [ElectricNews, 25 Mar 03]
• Blackfins Poised to Swim Circles Round Multimedia Designs [e-inSITE, 25 Mar 03]
• Motorola tips reconfigurable comms architecture [EE Times, 24 Mar 03]
• Gaggle of Consumer Gadgets Unveiled [PC World, 24 Mar 03]
• Passage seen to set-tops [EE Times, 24 Mar 03]
• A Chip in the Hand is Worth Two in the PC [SiliconValley, 24 Mar 03]
• Analog Devices DSP Runs Automotive Telematics, MP3, GSM Concurrently [Electronic News, 24 Mar 03]
• Taiwan joins optical-disk IP fray [EE Times, 24 Mar 03]
• MediaQ bets on low-power, multimedia controller IC for mobile handsets [EE Times, 24 Mar 03]
• Moto tips reconfigurable comms architecture [EE Times, 24 Mar 03]
• Motorola Showcases Programmable, Cost Effective Alternative for Wireless ... [StockWatch, 24 Mar 03]
• Toshiba Unveils Reference Design for CE Media Center Apps [e-insite, 21 Mar 03]
• Apple Adds 140 Session Descriptions For 2003 WWDC [The Mac Observer, 21 Mar 03]
• Improv, Denali team on Jazz offering for MPEG4 [Semiconductor Business..., 21 Mar 03]
• Fast introduces Mac-savvy media-server solutions [MacCentral, 21 Mar 03]
• JVT announces AVC | H.264! (MPEG Press Release) [MPEG, 20 Mar 03]
• ViXs Provides Wireless Video for Toshiba [802.11 Planet, 20 Mar 03]
• Video companies combine federal marketing [Post Newsweek Tech Media, 19 Mar 03]
• DivX: A new killer app for home entertainment? [Electronics Magazine, 19 Mar 03]
• Blaming Broadband? High-Speed Connectivity May Make Piracy Easier [TelecomWeb, 19 Mar 03]
• Doing True Video [PC Magazine, 18 Mar 03]
• AES Conference to Focus on Multichannel Audio [UE Media, 18 Mar 03]
• JVC Goes Beyond Broadcast at NAB2003 [UE Media, 18 Mar 03]
• MacFilmmakers meets Wednesday [MacCentral, 18 Mar 03]
• AACelerator 1.0 encodes audio using AAC [MacCentral, 18 Mar 03]
• New audio standard nears green light [CNET News, 17 Mar 03]
• Wireless execs see U.S. embracing mobile data [InfoWorld, 17 Mar 03]
• LiteOn releases a MPEG-4 capable DVD player [AfterDawn, 17 Mar 03]
• NEC and Matsushita partner on MPEG-4 decoder [CMPnetAsia, 17 Mar 03]
• Creative preps MS-based Nomad video player [The Register, 16 Mar 03]
• Pretec Launches 2MP Still Camera With MPEG4 Tape-Less Camcorder [Gate2Info, 14 Mar 03]
• VIA graphics team unwraps DX9 DeltaChrome [The Register, 14 Mar 03]

M4IF Member Press Releases

• Cirrus Logic Targets Enabling \First Affordable DivX-Certified DVD Players End 2003 [DivXNetworks, 26 Mar 03]
• Equator, Partners Demonstrate Digital Video Processing Technology for Smart... [Equator Technologies, 26 Mar 03]
• Hitachi, Nextreaming agree on providing optimized solution to Korean handset makers [Nextreaming, 25 Mar 03]
• MPEG-4 aac Plus To Become Part In Future Nero Products [Coding Technologies, 21 Mar 03]
• InterVideo, DivXNetworks Expand Agreement To Target Global PC OEM Market [DivXNetworks, 19 Mar 03]
• Toshiba Selects ViXS' XCode Chip to Provide Guaranteed, ... [ViXS Systems Inc., 19 Mar 03]
• MPEG Finalizes MPEG-4 High Efficency AAC-- aac Plus Specification [Coding Technologies, 18 Mar 03]
• PacketVideo and EarthCam Deliver L Camera Video Services For Mobile Users [PacketVideo, 18 Mar 03]
• MPEG LA to Hold MPEG-4 License Information Session at O’Hare, March 27 [MPEG LA, LLC, 17 Mar 03]

Other MPEG-4 Press Releases

• NICE Systems Adds Enhancements to NiceVision Platform and Advanced Apps [NICE, 25 Mar 03]
• Xiran Sets New Streaming Media Performance Standard Boosting Throughput of RealNetworks ... [Xiran, 24 Mar 03]
• Analog Devices' New Blackfin Family Offers Fastest, Most Power-Efficient Processors... [Analog Devices, 24 Mar 03]
• Improv and Denali Team to Deliver MPEG4 Solution [Denali, 21 Mar 03]
• Toshiba Selects ViXS' XCode Chip to Provide Guaranteed, ... [ViXS Systems Inc., 19 Mar 03]
• Speaking at Roth Capital Conference, DVS Founder [Digital Video Systems, 19 Mar 03]
• HipFlics 1.2 Released [Totally Hip, Inc., 18 Mar 03]
• QUALCOMM Announces Fully Integrated Video Solution for Feature-Rich Wireless Devices [Qualcomm, 17 Mar 03]

Upcoming events

• 05-10 Apr 03- NAB 2003, Las Vegas

• 07 Apr 03 - MPEG-4 (& 7 & 21) Session @ NAB
• 05-08 May 03 - Streaming Media NY
• 12-14 May 03 - KNK's MPEG-4 Seminar Series
• 16 May 03 - AVC(H.264/MPEG-4) by KNK Seminars
• 20-22 May 03 - Mediacast 2003
• 17-20 June 03 - Broadcast Asia
• 23-27 June 03 - Apple WWDC, San Francisco

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