Texas Instruments on Digital Video Transcoding

"Transcoding is a life-or-death issue facing manufacturers and service providers as they try to realize the explosive growth in video entertainment. Consumers have an insatiable appetite for immersion in entertainment, and transcoding among multiple formats will be mandatory for all future video products to be successful. Digital signal processing technology will be an essential piece in laying the foundation for transcoding among multiple consumer devices. TI will continue to leverage our proven expertise in multi-format advanced video codecs and our position as the only fully-programmable DSP technology provider performing real-time transcoding to include this functionality in a range of client media solutions." - Gene Frantz, TI Principal Fellow [more...]

Texas Instruments Archived Panel - Evolution in Video Entertainment Will Cease Without Multi-Format Transcoding

Texas Instruments - December 7, 2006
"Transcoding will be essential for the continued evolution of the video entertainment market. Why? Content is king and consumers are demanding that it be easily transportable and available on any device. Transcoding is the ability to take existing video content and change the format, bitrate and/or resolution in order to view it on another video playback device..."  [more...]

Transcoding: The Future of Video Market Depends on It

IDC Research Excecutive Brief - November 2006
"The growing variety of home, business, and mobile electronic devices is forcing content providers, network service providers, and end-user device manufaturers to tackle the problem of delivering large amoutns of digital data in multiple formats. In addition, consumers are demanding that their content be easily accessible from and available on any media-playing product they have, whether in the home or on the portable devices. The ability to seamlessly move any content on demand and in 'real tiem' is made possbile through a technology called trnascoding..." - IdaRose Sylvester, Senior Research Analyst [more...]

Real-Time TV Content Reformatting for IPTV and Mobile TV Distribution

StreamingMedia.com - September 2006
"... Media Excel’s scalable IP video transcoding solutions deliver realtime multi-format, multi-low bit-rate, high quality video to meet anytime, anywhere, any device market needs while realizing storage, bandwidth and cost savings to its operators..."  [more...]

Streaming Media - IP Video Transcoding Podcast

StreamingMedia.com - August 2006
Listen to Mr. Thanasis Iatrou, Chief Executive Officer, President and Co-Founder of Media Excel, address questions from Streaming Media's Editor Eric Schumacher-Rassmusen on why transcoding content into IPTV and Mobile TV streams in real-time are key functions for the success IP Video service providers in this rapidly emerging video market.

"As the popularity of online video skyrockets, so has the number of different video formats and codecs. The bottom line is that you want consumers to be able to access your content any time, anywhere, from any device. That’s where a solution like Media Excel’s H.264 Transcoding Solution can help. I’m speaking today with Thanasis Iatrou, president and co-founder of Media Excel ."...   [more...]

Reformatting Content in Real-Time for IPTV and Mobile TV Distribution Using Media Excel's H.264 Transcoding Solutions

Texas Instruments DSP Resource Guide - August 2006
"With the proliferation of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and Mobile TV deployments and the skyrocketing popularity of Social Media Networking Sites (ESPN, Google, Yahoo!, YouTube and Snapse), the need to efficiently reformat (transcode) content for distribution to broadband, IPTV and mobile devices has become a key operation for telecom service providers. Media Excel’s scalable transcoding solutions deliver real-time multi-format, multi-low bit rate high quality video to meet anytime, anywhere, any device market needs"...   [more...]

Texas Instruments Joins the Video Fray--Again

StreamingMedia.com - September 27, 2005
..."Our company provides customer driven digital video solutions that are chip and operating system agnostic,” says Eduardo Perez, VP of marketing at Media Excel. “Having said that, our research and development team, customer feedback, and market research indicate that the introduction of Texas Instruments’ DaVinci processor will further reduce development costs and time-to-market for our CE customers."...   [more...]