MPEG Industry Forum

In the past week, there was obviously much news for NAB 2003. M4IF still has its NAB2003 pages up and running, and will shortly publish the presentations for the MPEG - Enabling Broadcast and Media Convergence session on Monday April 7th.

NAB was markedly different than last year's show, when most people still wanted to know what MPEG-4 was. This year, people were knowledgeable and had good questions, many about AVC, many also about licensing. It was good to see interest from several parties in joining M4IF. There were some promising demos for the recently finalized AVC | H.264 video coding standard, including real-time encoding and decoding.

An interesting announcement came from BBC and Envivio. BBC will be one if the first companies to go beyond Audio and Video, and use MPEG-4's interactive power. I've seen a demo - it looks very attractive and professional. See first link below.

M4IF will hold its next (annual) membership meeting on 26 and 27 June in Montreal. Details online shortly. Contact Paul Ritchie (see CC) if you are interested in joining M4IF and want to sample this meeting.

Kind Regards,

Rob Koenen

NAB-related News and Press Releases

BBC's Newsnight to enter interactive streaming trial [EuropeMedia, 08 Apr 03]
TI Highlights Digital Media solutions at NAB 2003 [United Entertainment Media, 09 Apr 03]
MPEG-4 enabled IP TV set-top box architecture runs Linux [LinuxDevices, 09 Apr 03]
NAB2003: InterVideo Combines MPEG4 Codec with Tensilica Processor [Electronic Business, 08 Apr 03]
Apple Announces DVD Studio Pro 2 [EditorsNet, 08 Apr 03]
Masstech Introduces Product Suite for End-to-End Management and Control of Digital Content [Masstech, 07 Apr 03]
VBrick Systems Unveils VBXcast, an Intelligent Video Appliance that Extends ... [VBrick, 07 Apr 03]
BBC and Envivio Create Interactive MPEG-4 News Programming [Envivio, 07 Apr 03]
Envivio Announces H.264 Live Solution for Cost-Effective Delivery Of ... [Envivio, 07 Apr 03]
Envivio's MPEG-4 Solution Wins Streaming Magazine's 'Reader's Choice Awards For 2003' [Envivio, 07 Apr 03]
JVC adds QuickTime 6 support to Streamcorder [MacNN, 07 Apr 03]
Apple recasts movie-making software [c|net, 07 Apr 03]
face2face animation Announces 1st MPEG-4 Facial Animation Plug-In for QuickTime; ... [face2face, 07 Apr 03]
Nero Digital Set to Become the Next Big Standard in Audio and Video Compression [Ahead Software, 07 Apr 03]
iVAST to Demo MPEG-4 Solutions at NAB [UE Media, 05 Apr 03]

Other News on MPEG-4

Philips adds streaming to DVD recorder [c|net, 08 Apr 03]

Puretek launches multimedia-on-demand platform [chinapost.com.tw, 05 Apr 03]

Press Releases