ALEXANDRIA, VA.—The MPEG-2 compression algorithm is an integral part of the ATSC 1.0 broadcast standard. These are the digital rules that govern today’s HDTV transmissions in the United States and ...

When we asked our faithful readers what technological advances had made the biggest difference to their lives, Prospero424 stepped up to the plate to deliver a humdinger: video compression. To ...

The new series, which consists of two devices, the MB86H01 AA and MB86H01 AB, supports the DVB(*3) broadcasting standard used in these regions, and features MPEG-2 and H.264 decoders integrated into ...

Digital video currently follows the MPEG-2 standard, but improvements in image processing technology are set to move MPEG-4 to the forefront of video compression. Millions of DVD disks, satellite ...

Stockholm, Sweden-based Popwire on Tuesday announced that it is shipping Compression Engine 2, a digital media encoding system for broadcasters, media companies and others. Compression Engine 2 runs ...

Digital Video is large. Really large. A professional quality HD studio video camera produces just over a gigabit every second (1 Gb/s) when making the kind of video we currently show on BBC HD (which ...

i just got myself a very sweet Panasonic RV 31 DVD player and tried out it's VCD capabilities. i used the Toast Titanium VCD iMovie plugin for output and found some issues. <P>-iMovie transitions ...

In the course of my research I have to deal with dozens of Gigabytes of data produced by various 2-D computer simulations. Typically, such data comes from a rectangular grid and is stored in a file in ...

USDTV is converting its entire terrestrial DTV transmission network to MPEG-4 AVC compression, starting this summer. USDTV currently uses bandwidth of local broadcast DTV stations to transmit up to 30 ...

Chip maker Cirrus Logic Inc. announced it will acquire Stream Machine Co., makers of MPEG-2 video recording system-on-chips, for $110 million in stock. Cirrus, which makes analog and digital signal ...