"digital media" articles

A new industry initiative is underway to tag every commercial digital video worldwide, helping group every asset into one catalog with the hopes of streamlining digital delivery and simplify commercial transactions of digital video. The intiative, Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) , aims to simplify the task of tracking all of the millions of new videos coming from content companies and distribution channels, making life easier for everyone in the digital entertainment supply...

This week at their user conference in Palm Springs, FL, Sonus named a new CEO. Ray Dolan, a former telco (Bell Atlantic and Nynex) and industry technology (Qualcomm and Nextwave) exec is taking over the position from Richard Nottenburg, who will step down as president, CEO and director. Sonus has faced business challenges in recent years, made worse by the pull back in service provider spending during the economic downturn. The competitive playing field in the carrier VoIP...

I had discussed some initial thoughts about Cisco ?mi™ telepresence in an earlier post, and I had mentioned that the high price of the equipment and monthly fee would be a large deterrent to mass-market acceptance. However, what about the broadband infrastructure required? If you read the requirements that Cisco has, it's a broadband upload speed of at least 1.5 Mbps to accomodate a 720p resolution, and 3.5 Mbps for 1080p. That got us thinking about the number of homes in the U.S. that...

Verimatrix announced it has licensed Microsoft PlayReady Server technology in order to provide integrated MultiRights™ support for devices that support Microsoft PlayReady digital rights management (DRM). As a component of the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) 3, the company’s MultiRights™ framework enables transparent rights management across a range of networks and devices for streamlined multi-network and multi-screen video services. Microsoft PlayReady is...

Here's a significant design win for Celeno: its wireless technology will be used in Liberty Global's multimedia gateway.

Marvell's acquisition of the intellectual property and assets of DS2 has rolled up the last of the big independent powerline networking chipset vendors. First, CopperGate acquired the HomePlug assets from Conexant (and then itself got purchased by Sigma Designs), and Atheros purchased Intellon. It's a trend that signifies the importance of well-integrated networking solutions that may leverage at least a couple of networking technologies, including Wi-Fi and "no-new-wires."...

Conexant has an interesting announcement for a new reference design for Bluetooth-enabled "connected frames" for mobile phones. These products feature eight-inch LCD touch-screens and use Bluetooth technology to connect to a user's mobile phone. Applications supported include wireless hands-free speakerphone, phone book synchronizing, and mobile phone and headset pairing. The frames can also be used to wirelessly stream multimedia audio content from cell phones, and view and...

NETGEAR has unveiled new products in the ReadyNAS family - the ReadyNAS® Ultra family of 2-Bay, 4-Bay and 6-Bay network storage systems. They incorporate some features that are very media server-centric, particularly the place-shifting capabilities with Orb Networks,compatibility with TiVo PVRs to stream HD programming content, and Skifta media-shifting capabilities so users can access their media from any DLNA certified device