13 July 2023 - MPEG-4 News Digest week 28, 2003

MPEG-4 News Readers,

M4IF held its Annual Meeting end of June. With unanimous member support, M4IF decided to expand its focus to other upcoming MPEG standards, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21. You may have seen our press release. This change is effective immediately, and the Forum, now called MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF) is accepting membership applications from companies that want to see MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 universally adopted.

In the short term, MPEG-4 will remain the focus of a large part of our membership. We will keep using the M4IF name, domain name and logo, next to the new domain name. Members with MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 interests have started to develop specific activities to promote those standards. It is good to see that many members are actually seeking to use these standards in combination. In our trade shows and other activities, we will take an integrative approach in showing what the standards mean for the interoperable deployment of multimedia content and services.

Another innovation is a new category of Associate Membership: Personal Membership. Many people who want to support MPEG standards have requested us to join the Forum as individuals, but up until now, our Statutes only allowed organizations to join. MPEGIF's Board is now working out the details which will be announced later, but this much is known already:

• We are trying this out for one year, and will then evaluate if it is worthwhile continuing
• Membership is open to individuals who 1) actively support the Forum's goals; 2) are not a member of a large company (these should really join as a company)
• Each membership is subject to approval by the Membership and Nomination Committee (like all memberships)
• The membership fee is 300 USD per year
• Membership is for a year without automatic renewal, but individuals who want to continue their membership can do so by simply paying the yearly fee.

Meantime, MPEGIF recently signed up ESS Technology, Digital Content Industry Promotion Office, Taiwan, DirecTV and AIPTEK as new Forum members. More new members are in the pipeline, not just because of the expansion in focus, but notably also because the enormous interest in the new Advanced Video Coding standard.

Forum Members: take advantage of the free banner ad when you pay your membership dues in July! 

Kind Regards,

Rob Koenen

For Members (Go To Member Part of Website)

• Marketing Plan for the fiscal year 2003-2004 [M4IF, 11 July 03]
• MPEGIF Marketing Action Items List - July 9 2003 [M4IF, 11 July 03]
• Board Minutes from 8 July 2023 [M4IF, 10 July 03]
• Submit a paper to 3GSM World Congress, 23-27 Feb 2004, Cannes [3GSM, 07 July 03]
• Marketing Workgroup Action Items List [M4IF, 07 July 03]
• Report of the auditing committee for fiscal year 2001-2002 [M4IF, 03 July 03]
• Approved Montreal Documents (Budget, Statutes, Antitrust Guidelines, etc.) [MPEGIF, 03 July 03]
• Budget for the 2003-2004 Fiscal Year [M4IF, 03 July 03]
• 2003/4 M4IF Communications Plan [M4IF, 20 June 03]
• Minutes M4IF Interop Conference Call (June 19, 2023) [M4IF, 19 June 03]

News from M4IF (Archive of MPEG-4 News)

• AIPTEK joins MPEG Industry Forum [MPEGIF, 08 July 03]
• Press Release: MPEG Industry Forum to Promote All Emerging MPEG Standards [MPEGIF, 08 July 03]
• DirecTV joins MPEG Industry Forum [MPEGIF, 07 July 03]
• Digital Content Industry Promotion Office, Taiwan joins MPEG Industry Forum [MPEGIF, 30 June 03]
• ESS Technology, Inc. joins MPEG Industry Forum [M4IF, 30 June 03]
• Public resolutions of the 12th (Montreal) MPEG Industry Forum meeting [M4IF, 27 June 03]
• MPEG-4 Demystified - Apple WWDC talk (4.5 Mbyte) [M4IF, 26 June 03]

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

• NEC designs DTV tuner into 3G cell phone [EETimes, 11 July 03]
• Jetsons-Age Pocket TV Jukeboxes Arrive [WOAI.com, 09 July 03]
• The MPEG-4 evolution (07:20 min video) [Ericsson, 09 July 03]
• Sharp, TI to offer camera phone reference design [EE Times, 08 July 03]
• Sharp, TI Fast-Track Camera Phones [internetnews.com, 07 July 03]

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

• DivXNetworks Opens First Office in Europe [DivXNetworks, 10 July 03]
• Divio NW901 MPEG-4 CODEC Powers New Deja View Wearable Solid-State Camcorders [Divio, 09 July 03]
• US Navy licenses mpegable MPEG-4 video coding technology [dicas, 08 July 03]
• ESS Technology Becomes DivXNetworks First Certified DVD Chip Partner [DivXNetworks, 08 July 03]
• Development of joint Patent Licenses for H.264/MPEG-4AVC Makes Progress [MPEG LA, LLC, 07 July 03]

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

• 31 July 03 - MPEGIF Board Conference Call

• 17 July 03 - 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

• 25-28 Aug 03 - KNK's MPEG-4 & AVC Seminars, CA, USA

• 11-16 Sept 03 -  IBC 2003, Amsterdam, Netherlands

• 30 Sept 03 - MPEG-4 panel at Digital Hollywood, LA, CA, US  

• 23-27 Feb 04 - 3GSM, Cannes, France

If you have any MPEG events - wherever they are - please send name, date, place and link to [email protected]

Please visit www.mpegif.org for more information on MPEGIF and its members.

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