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Media Excel’s video compression solution for WebTV and "Over the Top" Video enables dynamic bandwidth optimization with network adaptive video output and great savings through a low-power, scalable video transcoding product line.
Media Excel - February 12, 2010
today announced that it is expanding its HERA4000 product line by offering the most advanced suite of WebTV technologies designed for Operators, Web Portals and Media Content owners that plan to broadcast "Over the Top" live TV or Video on Demand content to multiple TV, PC, notebook and tablet devices through multiple networks.
Nikos Kyriopoulos, Product Director at Media Excel said, "We are responding to our customer requirements for an integrated video solution that addresses the needs of Mobile TV and WebTV markets for multiple screens and networks, all out of one appliance. We expect the launch of new smartphones and tablet products to accelerate the need for "Over The Top: and Mobile video services as an integrated offering. Media Excel customers can effectively accommodate multiple delivery mechanisms with the maximum encoding density and without the need for an additional relay/proxy appliance."
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Media Excel and Texas Instruments collaborate to deliver new low-power, scalable network video transcoding solutions based on TI’s multicore DSPs
Media Excel - January 14, 2010
today announced that it is expanding its longstanding relationship with Texas Instruments (TI) and collaborating on a number of initiatives designed to bring high-density, scalable video over IP compression solution for network-based transcoding to market.
The collaboration will build on TI’s expanding portfolio of next-generation multicore DSPs and Media Excel’s expertise for designing high-density, high quality video compression solutions based on TI’s DaVinci chipset. With its forthcoming new line of low power, high density solutions Media Excel will continue to target the growing MobileTV, WebTV and IPTV markets and address the expanding needs of telcos, wireless operators and cable and satellite operators in their pursuit to offer cost-effective network video solutions for multiple screens while reducing energy consumption.
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MobiTV Selects Media Excel for iPhone Live Sports Applications
Media Excel - October 9, 2009
MobiTV has selected Media Excel’s Hera 4000 mobile TV transcoder appliance for live sporting events delivered to the iPhone. Paul Scanlan, President of MobiTV said, "We are very pleased with Media Excel, they have been a great partner for the last few years and our relationship is now strengthening further."
MobiTV has launched 3 new live sports applications on the iPhone, with major media brands over the past 45 days. The applications all achieved "Top 10" status in the Sports Category of the App Store.
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Telstra selects Media Excel’s HERA 4000 for mobile tv distribution
Media Excel - September 11, 2009
Media Excel, a leading provider of transcoding technologies for the mobile TV, IPTV and digital media industries, today announced that it has been selected by Telstra of Australia to provide the company with a platform for high-quality mobile video distribution. Media Excel’s award-winning HERA 4000 video encoding and transcoding product will be deployed by Telstra to offer customers a superior TV experience on mobile devices. Telstra is Australia's market leader for 3G wireless services, with 6.3 million 3G services.
The deal was announced today at IBC 2009 in Amsterdam.
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Media Excel expands management team in Europe with leading industry talent
Media Excel - May 4, 2009
Media Excel Inc., the world’s leading provider of next-generation transcoding solutions for MobileTV, WebTV & IPTV, today announced a key management appointment reflecting the company’s fast expansion in the marketplace.
Nicolas Pry joins Media Excel as Vice President of Europe, to lead the Company’s fast growth and establish the European Operations. Nicolas has built a very successful track record the last 27 years with GE Information Systems as General Manager, Landis & Gyr Communications as VP Systems and HARMONIC as Senior Director of International Operations.
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Media Excel HERA 4000 Enables Live Streaming for iPhone
Media Excel - April 20, 2009
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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TDC YouSee Selects Media Excel Encoders for Mobile TV Technology Refresh
Media Excel - March 5, 2009
Media Excel Inc., the world’s only provider of next-generation transcoding solutions for MobileTV, WebTV & IPTV, announced today that its Hera 4000™ Mobile TV solutions have been selected by YouSee for its 3G Mobile TV technology refresh.
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Media Excel Introduces Emerging Markets Solution
Media Excel - February 16, 2009
Media Excel Inc., the world’s only provider of next-generation transcoding solutions for MobileTV, WebTV & IPTV, introduced today the Hera EMSTM Mobile TV solution designed for the needs of Emerging Market mobile TV operators.
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Media Excel Announce HD World Demonstration
4rfv.co.uk - October 11, 2008
Media Excel, a leading provider of advanced real-time video encoding and transcoding solutions, will demonstrate the industry's first compression product that can stream two real-time, simultaneous HD streams in a single product at HD World.
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MobiTV, Media Excel join to enable 3G, 4G video delivery to service providers
Broadcasting Engineering - October 7, 2008
MobiTV and Media Excel have partnered to jointly offer service providers advanced video delivery capabilities to enable next-generation video over mobile and broadband networks.
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Media Excel Releases HERA 4000; First Transcoder to Handle Two Simultaneous Real-Time HD Streams in Single Rack Unit
Streamingmedia.com - September 12th, 2008
First HD Encoder/Transcoder Based on Texas Instruments DaVinci Processor; Highest Video Quality, Density and Scalability in Industry.
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Media Excel launches video coding hardware platform
Developing Telecoms - April 24, 2008
Claiming to offer higher-quality video encoding at lower prices, Media Excel have introduced a video encoding/transcoding hardware platform based on the Texas Instruments Da Vinci processor.
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MTV Networks Selects Media Excel for Rapid Video Transcoding; Single Platform and Unmatched Speed Enables Rapid Delivery
Media Excel - April 14, 2008
MTV Networks is currently using HERA platform domestically, with plans to extend its use globally, for digital media transcoding of video content for any device over any network.
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MobiTV Selects Media Excel for Live Mobile TV Transcoding
Media Excel - April 15, 2008
MobiTV has integrated Media Excel's encoding and transcodoing solutions into their end-to-end headend management network service platform.
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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Media Excel's Strong Product Innovation in Creating the HERA Encoder-Transcoder Product Line
BNET - Febuary 7, 2008
Based on its recent analysis of the video encoders and transcoders market, Frost & Sullivan presents Media Excel with the 2008 World Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation.
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Media Excel and UDcast Complete Interoperability Testing for MobileTV DVB-H Solutions
BusinessWire - Febuary 7, 2008
Proven interoperability will bring greater flexibility and expand choices for DVB-H Mobile TV service providers
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Media Excel Showcases "Hera 3200m," the World's Highest Performance Multi-Codec, Multi-Rate Video Transcoder for MobileTV at IBC 2007.
BusinessWire - August 30, 2007
Media Excel leverage in-house embedded software and DSP hardware components, to produce 3200m, a transcoder that provides multi-codec, multi-rate inputs and outputs providing broadcast-level video quality and the ability to simultaneously stream video to multiple types of mobile devices, including mobile phones, PDAs and notebooks.
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Media Excel Releases Hera 3200f Video File Transcoder for IPTV
TVover.net - August 27, 2007
Media Excel developed in-house embedded software and DSP hardware components, resulting in a highly scalable system that provides multi-codec broadcast-level video quality, an order of magnitude performance improvement, simplified pricing structure, plus unmatched flexibility to meet individual customer needs.
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Mobile TV, IPTV Transcoding Firm Media Excel Gets Investment
digitalmediawire - September 4, 2007
Media Excel, a developer of transcoding technologies for mobile TV, IPTV and Web TV platforms, said on Tuesday that financier Red McCombs, a co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, has increased his investment in the company.
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Media Excel Launches ``Hera 3200f,'' the World’s Most Powerful Video File Transcoder for Mobile TV and IPTV Delivering up to 10x Real-Time Performance
PRWeb - August 27, 2007
The Hera 3200f was designed following customer’s dissatisfaction of the performance, scalability, and complex licensing structures of available software file transcoding solutions in the market today.
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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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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"...
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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."
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Media Excel to Showcase H.264 Video Solutions for IPTV Including Industry's First MPEG-2 to H.264 Real-Time Transcoder at NAB 2005
BusinessWire - April 14, 2005
Visitors will experience live demos of end to end IPTV Solutions for Live Broadcast, Video-on-Demand (VoD), IP-Set-top boxes and mobile devices powered by Media Excel's SoftStream(R) products based on advanced compression standards such as H.264.
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