dicas and Sentivision to demonstrate MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 product interoperability at IBC 2007

Berlin | 30 August 2007

Sentivision, an innovative provider of cutting edge IPTV media solutions and products for the digital entertainment markets, and dicas, a leading provider of MPEG-based video coding products and solutions, will demonstrate product interoperability of their MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 products at IBC 2007 (7 to 11 September 2007, RAI, Amsterdam) at the dicas booth in Hall 1, booth 1.180.

The dicas 2010, a MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 SD encoder is designed for broadcasters, operators and enterprises delivering IPTV and Streaming services as well as for broadcast distribution and contribution. It delivers one SD channel of variable bit rate (VBR) or constant bit rate (CBR) MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video (progressive and interlaced coding) and MPEG-4 audio.

Sentivision’s SV-300 IP set-top box is a single-chip, low-cost device, which features IPTV and video on demand (VOD) functionality in a small form-factor design. The SV-300 supports the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression standard for broadcast IPTV delivery. Built on TI’s DaVinci™ technology, the SV-300 delivers superb video and audio quality by utilizing the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression standard for video stream decoding. Leveraging Sentivision Media Platform™ libraries, the SV-300 is capable of presenting fast and appealing Graphical User Interfaces (GUI).

Sentivision will be present at IBC in Hall 1, booth 1.108

About dicas:
dicas, founded in 1999, is an MPEG-focused video coding specialist and a leading developer of ISO MPEG-4 real-time video coding hardware products and software solutions for Broadcast, IPTV, Mobile TV, Internet Streaming, Multimedia and Security applications. Under the brand name mpegable, dicas offers a family of MPEG-4, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 (SD and HD) and 3GPP compliant professional software tools and components for a number of operating systems and DSPs/ICs. dicas also supplies services for the development, customization and optimization of MPEG-based video coding solutions. dicas is the first company to have introduced an MPEG-4 SDK with object-based features in the market. dicas is a member of the MPEG Industry Forum.

Press Contact Information:
Phone: +49 30 850 743 04
Fax: +49 30 850 743 06
E-Mail: contact@dicas.de
http://www.mpegable.com
http://www.dicas.de

About Sentivision:
Sentivision is an innovative provider of cutting-edge media technologies and products for the digital entertainment market. Broad experience in developing media rich software solutions for networked video delivery platforms enables us to offer the following high performance software products:
• Sentivision Media Platform (SMP) software environment for embedded multimedia devices.
• H.264/ AVC Encoder/Decoder/Codec solutions for CE Manufacturers.
• Complete Solutions for Video On Demand (VOD) and IP-TV broadcasting over the Internet including IP set-top boxes capable of decoding H.264/ AVC streams.
Sentivision is committed to providing its customers with solutions enabling secure and reliable video transmission over IP-based networks such as ADSL and FTTH. Sentivision is partially owned by Sony Communications Network Corp.