MPEG Industry Forum

MPEGIF members - we're gearing up for the IBC show in September in Amsterdam. It looks like we would have the available pods on or booth taken, but if you are interested, let us know, and we can see if there is still room. We will be asking for information about your MPEG exhibits for our show guide in a few weeks.

You may have heard rumors about the Digital Media Project - check it out here and see the news items below.

The 65th MPEG meeting has started yesterday with technical work. News from this meeting will follow in the next Digest.

Many people have asked us about the Workshop and Exhibition on MPEG-4. We are now shooting for March 2004 in Europe, either before or after the 15-19 March MPEG meeting. It will still be a workshop and an exhibition, but it will be about MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 in addition to MPEG-4, and we will step up the level of quality and participation. The MPEG (4,7,21) tutorials will be of the same high quality that they have always been. Advanced Video Coding will be a major focal point in the demonstrations, discussions and tutorials.

Best Regards,

Rob Koenen

Recent News (Archive of News)

MPEG pioneer tips project to unsnarl digital media [Electronic Business, 18 July 03] and Chiariglione launches Digital Media Project [EE Times, 07 July 03]
Thanks for the Memories Dept. (on High Efficiency AAC) [PC Magazine, 18 July 03]
Cablevision's New Venture With Satellite Stirs Skeptics [NY Times, 18 July 03]
Sony Clie PEG-UX50 and UX40 announced [MacNN, 18 July 03]
AVIAS Announces Portable Video and Audio Player [the Mac Observer, 18 July 03]
NEC demonstrates DTV on a cell phone [Broadcast Engineering, 17 July 03]
Panasonic Introduces DVD Recorder With 120GB Hard Drive [audiorevolution.com, 15 July 03]
Rightscom in praise of MPEG REL [EuropeMedia, 15 July 03]

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

New CLIE Handheld Features More Power, Mobility and Intelligence [PRNewswire, 18 July 03]
Sampo Launches New DVD Recorder, Is Latest Cirrus Logic DVD Recording Platform Customer [Cirrus Logic, 15 July 03]
Popwire Technology and dicas team-up to sell Compression Master [dicas, 15 July 03]

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

23 July 03 - MPEGIF Marketing WG Conference Call
31 July 03 - MPEGIF Board Conference Call
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

We would like to make the Calendar more global. If you have any MPEG-4 events - wherever they are - please send name, date, place and link to [email protected]

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