RE: [MPEGIF News] News Digest Returns

David,
 
correct me if I am incorrect, but I read the press release.
to be clear about what is being announced...
harmonic was chosen by the dsl operator to provide mpeg-2 now and the
operator's plan is to use mpeg-4/avc in the future using the same
platform when it becomes available from Harmonic.
also, what would be interesting from the point of interop is to know
what STB as being used in this existing deployment
 
was that parsed accurately?
 
s

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From: David Price [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 12:48 PM
To: 'rob.koenen-8/[email protected]'; 'Gary Sullivan'; MPEGIF news
Subject: RE: [MPEGIF News] News Digest Returns 


Gary,
 
Tandberg and Polycom are in video conferencing systems. Harmonic is #1
in the world of broadcast video encoding systems. I think our news is
ground breaking as, to my knowledge, it is the first announcement of
adoption of MPEG-4 Part 10, Main Profile, Level 3 in broadcast
video......if anyone has seen any prior announcements I would greatly
appreciate their links..
 
thanks
 
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Koenen (MPEGIF) [mailto:rob.koenen-8/[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:11 AM
To: 'Gary Sullivan'; rob.koenen-8/[email protected]; MPEGIF news
Subject: RE: [MPEGIF News] News Digest Returns 


Gary,
 
Thanks for your comments. I talked to Harmonic and they really see this
as an AVC deployment, even though this may arguably be unclear from
their release.
I know about H.264 being introduced in the videoconferencing space - but
I hadn't come across any press releases myself yet. Credit where credit
is due though:

*	Tandberg H.264-enables all products
<http://napps.nwfusion.com/weblogs/multimedia/archives/003552.html>
[NetworkWorldFusion, Oct 03] 
*	Polycom VSX(tm) 7000: H.264 So Hot It's Cool, Audio So Cool It's
Hot <http://www.polycom.com/common/pw_item_show_doc/0,,2478,00.pdf>
[ConferencingBuyer, Oct 03] 

If anyone know any other products or news relevant to MPEGIF's News
Digest, then please let me know or register the news or your press
release yourself: http://www.m4if.org/news/newsregister.php so that it
will be listed on teh MPEGIF home page and in the weekly digest.
 
Best Regards,
 
Rob
 
ps: aggressive spam filters have caused many you to get multiple copies
of the (filtered) Digest again, we have put on emergency moderation and
will now remove the email addresses causing this.

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Gary Sullivan [mailto:garysull-pv/dERffB/[email protected]] 
	Sent: Saturday, 24 January 2004 02:47
	To: rob.koenen-8/[email protected]; MPEGIF news
	Subject: RE: [MPEGIF News] News Digest Returns 
	
	
	Regarding the comment that Harmonic may be the first commercial
AVC deployment: I notice that the referenced Harmonic's press release
still seems to refer to AVC capabilities primarily in the future tense.

	 
	However, in any case, this is not the first. The industry that
is really deploying AVC first is the videoconferencing community.
Polycom and Tandberg (the #1 and #2 companies in that world) have both
been claiming to be shipping it for six months or more.  (However, I
have not yet heard of their shipping products achieving interoperability
with each other's products, so some real work remains to be done in that
area.)
	 
	All the best,
	 
	-Gary

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[mailto:news-bounces-wvgAS0I8NaWTm/[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Koenen (MPEGIF)
		Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 3:03 PM
		To: MPEGIF news
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