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Archive for March, 2006

Compression protest caused termination?

31st March 2006

A Kodak employee claims she protested a plan to increase compression of customer’s photos and got axed for it.

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Video Codec Tutorial Time

31st March 2006

A couple of TI video experts give you the rundown on video codecs.

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Digg reacts to Euclid

29th March 2006

The folks on Digg read the press release of Euclid Discoveries and generously offer their opinions.

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Euclid Discoveries (finally) Announces Huge Improvement Over MPEG-4

28th March 2006

Euclid Discoveries claims 460% improvement over H.264 with Object-Based Compression technology.

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Compact format for video processing platform

27th March 2006

Press Release: Targeting developers who are looking to implement high-end video processing and storage system under severe size constraints, YMagic Technologies recently announced availability of its new Pluto-3 video processing platform.

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Digital Cinema (JPEG2000) Reaches Europe

27th March 2006

Press Release: Disney’s ‘Chicken Little’ is first film shown commercially in Europe to be compatible with Hollywood standards for digital cinema.

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Chinese delegates call for more support for China’s Audio and Video Coding Standard (AVS).

23rd March 2006

ChinaTechNews: Eleven Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) delegates have submitted a proposal to the 10th CPPCC calling for more support to be given to China’s Audio and Video Coding Standard (AVS).

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On2 Technologies Launches Linux Video Encoding SDK for Macromedia Flash Player 8

22nd March 2006

Press Release: On2 Technologies announced availability of the On2 Flix Engine for Linux.

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Philips joining the game?

18th March 2006

Philips following in Forgent’s footsteps in asking for JPEG royalties?

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Moderator will be Travelling

17th March 2006

Your moderator (me) will be travelling across US during next 2 weeks. This may translate into a more than usual delay in moderations, news postings and mail replies. I have listed my travel plans, in case I can meet some of you in person.

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