Broadcasters and service providers have a wide variety of options to consider when choosing the correct compression strategy for the contribution and distribution of broadcast content. With ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2006--Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ:HLIT) today introduced the DiviCom(R) MV 500 encoder, a powerful new MPEG-2 high definition (HD) CBR/VBR compression solution. The MV ...

H.264 is the latest official video compression standard, which follows from the highly successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers improvements in both video quality and compression. The ...

A secretive 4-year-old project aimed at improving digital video is ready for its close-up. Privately held Pulsent on Monday will take the wraps off a new compression technique that the company claims ...

PARIS — Seven leading electronics companies who hold essential intellectual property rights for the MPEG-2 video compression standard have filed suit in Duesseldorf, Germany, against Sagem Societe ...

Susan Brady: H.264 is considered the next generation in video compression standards. Would you explain why this is and the specifics of H.264 that make it a better standard than what already exists?