[MPEGIF News] MPEGIF congratulates JVT on it's 2008 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award ...

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MPEGIF congratulates JVT on it's 2008 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award and
announces inclusion of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 High Profile in the MPEGIF Logo
Qualification Program

 

IBC 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 11 September 2008 - The MPEG Industry
Forum (MPEGIF), the largest advocacy group for MPEG technologies in the
world, congratulates the Joint Video Team (JVT), lead by Messrs Gary
Sullivan, Ajay Luthra and Thomas Wiegand for being honored by the 2008
Primetime Emmy Engineering Award from the Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences for the work in developing the High Profile for MPEG-4 AVC/H.264.
The JVT is comprised of engineers from the International Standardization
Organization (ISO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

 

The MPEGIF is also pleased to announce the addition of the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
High Profile to its MPEGIF Logo Qualification Program, a unique initiative
designed to help guide interoperability among products and technology. The
program, which until now included the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Baseline and Main
Profile, is based on a self-certification process, is free of charge and
open to all companies using MPEG-4AVC/H.264 technology, not just members of
MPEGIF. Qualified products have the right to display the MP4 Qualification
Mark and list their status in their documentation, literature, and
advertising. They will also have their product listed in the MPEGIF Product
Directory (http://logo.mpegif.org <http://logo.mpegif.org/> ). Participant
Companies include Motorola, Hantro, Harmonic, dicas, Divx, Amino, Envivio,
NVidia, Samsung, Freescale, 2Wire, Fraunhofer, Bsoft, Elecard, Vsoft, Seva,
Human Monitoring, Scopus, Sencore, Silicon Image, ARC, Sunplus, Media Tek,
and Ceva.

 

"This Emmy award manifests the technological superiority of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
and the unmatched engineering delivered by the JVT, comments Sebastian
Moeritz, President MPEGIF and CEO at dicas. "Picking up from where the
exceptional technical work of the standardization bodies stop, the many
promotional activities of MPEGIF include the MPEGIF Logo Qualification
Program, its interoperability program, and educational and informational
initiatives such as the MPEGIF MasterClasses. These have significantly
contributed to the worldwide adoption of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264." he continued.

 

David Price, Vice President MPEGIF, and Vice President at Harmonic added,
"MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 has emerged as the world's clear successor to MPEG-2 for
digital video compression technology. It is being widely adopted for next
generation media delivery delivering the new television experience from
mobile up to HD. Organizations such as the JVT and MPEGIF are distinctive in
their area of engagement and complement each other perfectly sharing a
common goal. MPEGIF has clearly achieved its mission of widespread adoption
of MPEG technologies set out when the organization was formed back in 2000."

 

 

 

About MPEGIF

The MPEG Industry Forum (www.mpegif.org <outbind://12/www.mpegif.org> ), the
world's largest advocacy group for MPEG technologies, represents more than
30 international companies and organizations from diverse industries and
promotes the adoption of MPEG standards. MPEGIF, founded in 2000, has played
a significant role in facilitating the widespread adoption and deployment of
MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 as the industry's standard video compression technology
powering next generation television and most mainstream content delivery as
well as consumption applications including packaged media. MPEGIF, with more
than 2500 people subscribed to its mailing lists, serves as a single point
of information on technology, products and services for these standards,
offers interoperability testing, a conformance program, marketing activities
and is present at international trade shows and conferences. 

 

 

 

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Media Contact: Nicola Wissler, MPEG Industry Forum Coordinator,

+1.510.492.4028, nicola.wissler-8/[email protected]   

 

 

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