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V-Nova’s PERSEUS powers first UltraHD broadcast of Real Madrid vs. Barcelona, football’s “El Clásico”

by Isaac Oburu

V-Nova Ltd., a leading provider of video compression solutions, announced today that its innovative PERSEUS technology was deployed by Mediapro’s Overon for visually lossless contribution of the November 21 “El Clásico” match between Real …

Tags:Broadcast| Codecs| Spain| UltraHD (4KTV)

Perseus Chosen for Live UltraHD Broadcast

by Tom Allen

Mediapro’s Overon used V-Nova’s Perseus compression codec for an UltraHD broadcast of a football match (‘El Clásico’) between Real Madrid and Barcelona, in Spain, on the 21st November. Live footage was encoded at the …

Tveon Claims Perseus-Beating Bit-Rates

by Tom Allen

A Canadian company known as Tveon claims to have an encoding technology that beats even the impressive bit-rates of V-Nova’s Perseus (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements). Having been operating in ‘stealth mode’ for …

Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 46

IBC 2015 Round Up

by Bob Raikes

German STB maker, ABox42, was showing a new middleware solution that it has developed that is called ABox42 OPA (Operator Android). The middleware allows for the development of Android boxes with security for pay …

Fraunhofer Shows Lici in KVMs

by Bob Raikes

Various Fraunhofer groups had a shared booth in Hall 8. We talked to the team behind the Lici lightweight codec. This (like Intopix and Displaystream) codec has very low latency (around two lines), doesn’t …

V-Nova Signs New Codec Partners

by Tom Allen

Alcatel-Lucent plans to integrate V-Nova’s Perseus compression technology (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements) with its Cloud DVR platform, and Oregan Networks’ Multiscreen Cloud Video Client. Alcatel-Lucent hopes to gain ‘significant’ improvements in its …

Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Google Aims at VP10 in 2016

by Tom Allen

Google has spoken to CNet about the company’s plans for its VP10 codec which is under development. Google’s existing VP9 codec is an alternative to the more mainstream HEVC. However, it has recently been …

Leading Companies Collaborate to Avoid Codec Fees

by Tom Allen

Seven companies have come together to form the Alliance for Open Media: a body that intends to ‘address marketplace demand for an open standard for video compression and delivery over the Internet’. The founding …

Alliance for Open Media Established to Deliver Next-Generation Open Media Formats

by Tom Allen

Seven leading Internet companies today announced formation of the Alliance for Open Media – an open-source project that will develop next-generation media formats, codecs and technologies in the public interest. The Alliance’s founding members …

V-Nova Shines at IBC

by Bob Raikes

V-Nova held a press conference to update on the firm’s progress since TV Connect and then NAB. Matt Stagg of EE endorsed V-NovaAn executive from major UK telco, EE, Matt Stagg started by saying …

Tags:Codecs| IBC 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 37

Products using VESA Display Stream Compression (DSC) Coming Soon

by Chris Chinnock

The standards organization, VESA, has developed a compression codec that it calls Display Stream Compression (DSC). Now, silicon to support the encoding and decoding of video has been developed and should enable products to …

Tags:Codecs| Display Stream (DSC)| VESA| Vol 22 - Issue 35

V-Nova Ports Perseus to Nvidia

by Tom Allen

The Perseus codec from V-Nova (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements) has been ported to run on Nvidia GPUs. GPU-enabled Perseus technology is now available to V-Nova customers. The parallel approach to signal processing …