Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra  Home         Topics: Main | DSL | Cable | FTTH  | GPON | VDSL2 | DOCSIS 3.0 | IPTV | Set-top Boxes  | Encoders  | Content   | Regulatory Issues  |  Links & Resources | Archive   | Europe  |    Microsoft and TANDBERG Partner on IPTV TANDBERG Television will integrate its encoding technologies with Microsoft TV's IPTV Edition software platform. The companies also agreed to enhance TANDBERG's EN5900 range of advanced video encoders that integrate Microsoft's IPTV platform by incorporating picture-in- picture (PIP) generation functionality into the encoder itself. Enabling PIP functionality without requiring additional hardware-based tuners in the set-top box is one of the unique features of Microsoft TV IPTV Edition. By incorporating PIP capabilities into the encoding solution, TANDBERG Television and Microsoft TV further maximize system efficiencies, because PIP encoding is handled at the encoder. This eliminates processing demands on the acquisition server, which otherwise would need to decode and re-encode the PIP stream, thus reducing the overall cost of the solution and improving the user experience. The PIP stream will be generated from the same video source and will consist of a lower-resolution version encoded at a much lower bit-rate than the main stream. Resolution reduction is achieved within the encoder and no additional external components are needed. http://www.tandbergtv.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/tv 08-Jun-05 Earlier this month, TANDBERG Television announced that it has commenced the installation of an end-to-end IPTV delivery system for the commercial roll-out of the Swisscom/Bluewin triple play service. Swisscom has chosen the TANDBERG Television professional hardware encoding solution for Windows Media Video 9 (Microsoft's implementation of VC-1, the proposed SMPTE standard) following a competitive tender process.     No video on this topic yet.. contact us to present your views. Recent Last Mile News Singapore's Next Gen Nationwide Broadband Network Launches 8/31/2010 SingTel Launches Services over NGNBN Fibre 8/31/2010 BT Confirms Selection of Huawei for Next Gen Access 8/26/2010 Occam Supplies Multiservice Access in Indiana 8/25/2010 NTELOS Selects ADTRAN for FTTH 8/24/2010 Australia's NBN Hangs in the Balance 8/23/2010 Lantiq Samples 65nm VDSL2 CO Chipset with Line Bonding 8/23/2010 WildBlue Wins $19M Grant for Rural Satellite Broadband 8/19/2010 North Carolina's Golden LEAF Gains $140 Million in Funding 8/18/2010 PacketFront Employs Mindspeed Processor for Gigabit-to-the Home CPE 8/18/2010 Korea's CJ HelloVision Picks Arris for DOCSIS 3.0 8/17/2010 PMC-Sierra Collaborates with Incognito Software on FTTx for MSOs 8/16/2010 Verizon Tests Gigabit Ethernet Service on FiOS 8/16/2010 Orange's Internet-TV-Phone + Mobile offer in France 8/12/2010 Orckit-Corrigent Gains TSEC for GPON in India 8/9/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton