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MediaFLO News: Media Excel Selected by MediaFLO Technologies as Third-Party Transcoder Provider
Media Excel, a U.S. based provider of transcoding technologies for the mobile TV, IPTV and digital media industries and long-time member of the FLO Forum, has announced it has been selected by MediaFLO Technologies as a third-party encoder solution enabler with the HERA 4000.FLO transcoder product.
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Streaming Media: NAB 2009 Highlights
Media Excel showed off an enhancement to its Hera 4000 line of transcoders. Media Excel uses Texas Instruments' Digital Signal Processor (DSP) chips to transcode live content from one format/delivery platform to another, and the enhancement centers on the ability for the Hera 4000 line to deliver HTTP streams to iPhones. As these encoding appliances are field-upgradeable, and the new feature is available as a free upgrade to existing Hera 4000 customers, Media Excel stated its confidence in its ability to drive market value through the transcoding of content for the iPhone.
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Fierce Wireless: iPhone Live Streaming
Media Excel Inc., the world's leading provider of next-generation transcoding solutions for MobileTV, WebTV & IPTV, today introduced general availability of iPhone live streaming support for its award-winning HERA 4000 encoder/transcoder product line. This powerful enhancement is released after a round of successful trials with select mobile operators around the world and enables seamless, high quality live video delivery to the iPhone via a streaming server (RTSP) or through a web server (HTTP).
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MobiTV and Media Excel together
MobiTV, a provider of advanced mobile and broadband IP video distribution technology, and Media Excel, a provider of advanced realtime video encoding and transcoding, have announced a strategic partnership agreement to jointly offer advanced video delivery capabilities to service providers.
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Conference Analysis: Mobile TV definitely on way
At the FLO roundtable at IBC, members of the Forum said that the advent of mobile TV may be taking its time, but that it is on the way and when it arrives, it will become a phenomenon as addictive as the mobile phone itself.
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Ah, Amsterdam...Fuzzy Memories on 2008 IBC
Trend Number Three: Transcoding Comes of Age
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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..."
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Equipment vendors weathering the economic storm
Based on numerous conversations, many of the smaller companies are weathering the storm by striking distribution deals with the larger companies, thereby giving them increased reach and access to clients and markets they might not be able to support on their own.
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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..."
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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
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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..."
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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 ."
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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"...
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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."
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