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12 October 2006

Nero has announced that ESS Technology's Phoenix HD Enhanced DVD processor has achieved Nero Digital certification. Here's part of their press release:

Nero, leaders in digital media technology, announces that ESS Technology Inc.'s ES8380/ES8381 Phoenix(TM) HD Enhanced(TM) DVD processor is Nero Digital(TM) Certified. Nero Digital, co-developed by Nero and Ateme, is based on industry standards MPEG-4 Video (MPEG-4 SP/ASP and AVC/H.264) and MPEG-4 Audio (LC AAC und HE AAC) compression technologies. It enables the delivery of more high quality MPEG-4 compliant audio and video content at lower bit rates, while offering advanced interactive features.

The Phoenix ES8380/ES8381 single-chip HD Enhanced DVD processor, which features an integrated servo controller and RF amplifier, provides users with standard DVD decoding (with options to support MPEG-4 ASP decoding, HDMI transmitter and Class D power bridges). It incorporates advanced video enhancement features such as an HDTV encoder that can display JPEG pictures at full HD resolution, as well as video up-scaling and de-interlacing to display video at HD resolution.

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03 October 2006

InterVideo has announced that WinDVD BD has been certified by Sun Microsystems for standard BD-J content playback. Here's part of their press release:

InterVideo, Inc. (NASDAQ:IVII - News), a leading provider of integrated digital and high-definition multimedia and audio/video content solutions in the PC, CE and wireless industries and a member of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), announced today that the company's next-generation playback software, WinDVD BD(TM), has passed Sun Microsystem's TCK (Technology Compatibility Kit) logo program test.

"By obtaining Sun's TCK logo for Java(TM) technology, WinDVD BD once again proves itself to be the most advanced Blu-ray Disc software player available on the market," said Steve Ro, CEO of InterVideo. "Java is a key enabling technology for users' interactive Blu-ray experience. InterVideo has cooperated closely with Sun and is proud to announce that WinDVD BD is one of the first software players able to deliver full compatibility with all Blu-ray Discs featuring BD-J interactivity."

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09 October 2006

Sonic Solutions has announced that they've entered into a licensing agreement with Macrovision. According to their press release, two companies plan to integrate Macrovision's RipGuard and ACP technologies into Sonic's DVD On Demand.

Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, and Macrovision Corporation (NASDAQ: MVSN), the leader in digital media protection, today announced a licensing agreement to provide the industry's first comprehensive content protection solution to enable the custom manufacturing of secure DVDs by retailers, e-tailers and DVD production facilities. The new solution will make it possible for movie studios and other content owners to expand the number of titles in their catalog that are available for purchase by consumers in a variety of channels.

The solution will integrate Macrovision's RipGuard and ACP technologies into Sonic's DVD On Demand technology solution, which will allow content encrypted with the industry-standard Content Scramble System (CSS) found on mass-replicated DVDs to be recorded directly to optical DVD media. Sonic will license the new combined solution to video publishers and distributors.

DVD On Demand with RipGuard and ACP is expected to be available later this quarter. More information can be found on Sonic's website. Add a comment

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28 September 2006

DivX Labs has released beta 1 of the DivX 6.4 Codec. Along with a new 1080HD encoding mode, this new version of the DivX Codec includes features like faster multipass encoding, high efficiency resize filters and adaptive noise reduction.

DivX Codec now includes a 1080HD encoding mode allowing you to create full size 1920 x 1080 resolution video in high quality DivX format. Videos encoded using this new setting are suitable for playback on fast desktop computers and are more likely to play on future hardware devices than videos encoded using unconstrained mode, and unlike unconstrained mode, 1080HD encoding will be available for free in the DivX Community Codec. Both 1080i and 1080p encoding is supported.

More information on the DivX 6.4 Codec can be found here. That page also has a download link if you want to try the beta out. Feel free to share your experiences in our forum. Add a comment