MPEG Industry Forum

Sony created a stir last week with its announcement of the PSP, "the Walkman of the 21st Century.", a portable, wide-screen device with a 1.8 GByte optical disk that can store several high quality movies. The announcements mentions the video format is MPEG-4 - I assume it would be AVC seeing the target release date. Third party publications claim it support do AAC as one of the audio codecs. It's going to be a bit of a wait - the device is scheduled for release in Q4 '04.

Remember M4IF's (annual) membership meeting on 26, 27 June in Montreal, Canada. Contact Paul Ritchie if you are not a member yet, but interested in joining M4IF and want to sample this meeting.

Kind Regards,
Rob Koenen

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Recent News on MPEG-4 (Archive of MPEG-4 News)

The next big thing [EE Times, 17 May 03]
Gadget of the Week: Panasonic SV-AV30 AV Device [Time, 15 May 03]
New AppleScript integrates iTunes, QT Pro functions [MacCentral, 15 May 03]
Apple Makes Mobile QuickTime Moves [eWeek, 14 May 03]
VBrick VBXcast Breaks Down 'Bandwidth Barriers' [UE Media, 14 May 03]
MediaQ targets processor family at multimedia devices [EE Times, 14 May 03]
Sony's Handheld Gaming Surprise [Forbes, 14 May 03]
AAC Converting Utility Shipping From Ovolab [Mac Observer, 13 May 03]
E3: Sony hand-held bombshell [Ferrago, 13 May 03]
On2 Challenges MPEG-2 With VP6 Codec [atnewyork, 12 May 03]
Satellite broadcaster gets ready for mobile play [EE Times, 12 May 03]

Recent Member Press Releases (Archive of MPEG-4 Press Releases)

DivXNetworks and CyberLink License Video Products to PC Distributor Actebis [DivXNetworks, 15 May 03]
Sony Computer Entertainment Readies for Market Expansion With Creation ... [Sony, 13 May 03]

Other Recent Press Releases (Archive of MPEG-4 Press Releases)

Bravo D1 player "The first to offer Digital DVI Output & MPEG-4 Playback" [V, Inc., 13 May 03]
Xiran Demonstrates STM-1000 Streaming Media Server, the Fastest Content ... [Xiran, 12 May 03]

Upcoming events and M4IF conference calls (Full M4IF Event Calendar)

26-27 June 03 - Annual M4IF meeting, Montreal, Canada
15 May 03 - M4IF Interop WG Conference Call
28 May 03 - M4IF Marketing WG Conference Call
03 June 03 - M4IF Board Conference Call
20-22 May 03 - Mediacast 2003, London, UK
20 June 03 - KNK's AVC|H.264 Seminar, Toronto, Canada
23-27 June 03 - Apple WWDC, San Francisco, US
17 July MPEG-4 Session at Macworld, San Francisco, CA, USA
21-25 July 03 - 56th MPEG meeting, Trondheim, Norway
11-22 Aug 03 - Audio Coding Workshop, Palo Alto, CA, USA
11-16 Sept 03 - IBC 2003, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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