KDDI
Compression and recording images electronically seem to go hand-in-hand these days. KDDI is one of the companies that had some impressive displays at NAB this year. One was their real time HD software based MPEG to H.264/AVC transcoding software.
More challenging was their software based real-time 4K encoding that employed a commercial PC to bring it down to a bit-rate of 25Mbps. The target of this technology is to deliver high quality 4K images to next generation 4K receivers. While the encoding seemed to be a snap using a commercial PC to decode the stream back to a 4K signal, KDDI had to employ a CRAY computer.
HaiVision 1000
HaiVision’s new MPEG-4 AVC H.264 core called the hai1000 delivers high resolution HD or SD video and super wideband audio across IP networks at bandwidths anywhere ranging from 256 kbps to 10 Mbps.
Below an interview with HaiVision President Francois Gariepy on Telepresence and HaiVision’s products.
FastVDO’s SmartCapture®
FastVDO’s SmartCapture® is the world’s first and smallest USB based capture and H.264/AAC encoder hardware. It takes analogue video inputs and allows one to stream the signal immediately across the Internet.
Blackmagic Design’s Video Recorder
Blackmagic’s Video Recorder family starts as a product similar to FastVDO’s SmartCapture®. However the more advanced version allows for conversion of SDI signals directly to H.264 signals. Below is a video of the new NAB 2008 products by BlackMagic Design.
Codex Digital
For those who wanted to record straight 2K or 4K imagery without compression, Codex Digital has been the company with the technology. This year they introduced their Codex Portable unit which is a fully-mobile digital cinematography recorder.
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