Seven companies including Pioneer and Sharp agreed this week to build a system that would bring MPEG-4 to cable set-top boxes. Using the newly introduced compression format, which supporters say ...

U.S. Digital Television LLC (USDTV), the low-cost digital wireless cable service launched a few years ago by some local broadcasters, provided details of the company's second-gen STB at NAB. The new ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. DG2L introduced the DG2L Neuron, a multi-network, HDTV MPEG-4 set-top box (STB), at NAB2004. DG2L ...

The Scratch: Motorola is launching a new line of MPEG-4 set-tops designed for HD video and surround sound—DCX. They all rock 1GHz tuners (good for bandwidth-binging HD and VOD) and support whole home ...

Complete Cost and Power Consumption Optimized Secure Set-Top Box Solution, Based on NEC Electronics EMMA3SL/LP MPEG-4 Standard Definition Digital TV Processor DUESSELDORF (Germany) -- 02 Feb 2009-- ...

Oh, DirecTV; how you confuse us. Many of you already know that DirecTV is starting the transition over to MPEG-4 signals. MPEG-4 is more efficient because of better compression, but you will need new ...

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) will offer free MPEG-4 IP set-top boxes to attract new subscribers to its MOD (multimedia on demand) services, according to local vendors of IP set-top boxes. CHT will be the ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Seven years ago, when I was still a clueless kid, I played my first video clip on the Internet using a 56k connection. It was ...

MPEG-4 is one of the latest video/audio compression method standardized by MPEG group, designed specially for low-bandwidth (less than 1.5MBit/sec bitrate) video/audio encoding purposes. MPEG-4 is ...