DivX Enables Powerful Video Compression and High Definition Features in Roxio Toast 7. The Leading Mac CD & DVD Burning Software Becomes First Third-Party Application to Support DivX 6.

Global Technology Conferences announced three wireless tutorials for GSPx 2005. The tutorials will cover WiMAX, ZigBee, UWB and Wireless LAN. GSPx, the signal processing conference and expo, will take place October 24-27 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California.

Sorensen Media is shipping beta copies of version 4.2 of their compression suite.

DisplaySearch, a global video-display market-research and consulting firm, last week hosted their annual HDTV Conference, a two-day affair devoted to—you guessed it—HDTV.

ATIS announced in June the formation of the IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) to develop ATIS standards and related technical and operations activities that will foster interoperability, interconnection and implementation of IPTV systems and services, including video on demand and interactive TV services. It will focus on various elements, such as QoS, DRM, encoders, decoders, STBs, DSLAMs and VoD systems.

Press Release: Lattice3D, developer of XVL compression technology, announced that it will launch its newest product line at the AutoTech 2005 conference being held on August 29th in Detroit. Lattice3D will exhibit jointly with its strategic reseller partner, EASi, a company which is instrumental in distributing the product throughout the US automotive industry.

PowerShrink 2.0 claims to compress PowerPoint presentations by an average rate of 62%, while keeping full functionality and file format of the PowerPoint Presentation.

The IBC 2005 Conference will take place at the Amsterdam RAI from 8-12 September 2005, intending to meet the needs of the creative, business and technical communities in both its indepth coverage of subject material and the variety of different formats that its sessions take.

Tandberg Television has received a further order from DIRECTV, Inc., a leading digital television service provider in the United States, valued in excess of US$7.5m.

Reuters is reporting Sony and Toshiba have apparently given up efforts to develop a unified format for next-generation DVDs. The two companies had opened up negotiations but they fell through due to time constraints on new products from both groups.