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NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks, today announced that its Au1250® processor, a member of its Ultra Low-Power Alchemy® Processor family, has been selected by Samsung Electronics to power Samsung’s industry-leading SP-L305 Networked Video Projector for enterprises and small/midsized businesses. Samsung’s SP-L305 Projector will be showcased by NetLogic Microsystems at this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall, Booth #35268.
Samsung’s SP-L305 Projector is an advanced device capable of projecting video, audio, digital photos and documents with a 3000-lumens XGA (Extended Graphics Array) projection resolution.
The projector supports intelligent network connectivity by allowing users to remotely manage the projector over the enterprise network. In addition, the SP-L305 projector allows users to project content from multiple sources, including the PC, portable media players (PMP), MP4P video players and USB flash memory devices through a wide range of interconnectivity options, including D-sub, S-video, HDMI, DVI and USB.
The Samsung projector integrates 2-channel stereo speakers, a five-band equalizer, manual focus and zoom control, and supports multiple media content format, including MPEG4, Divx, WMV9, Xvid and MP3.
“Samsung is pleased to have selected NetLogic Microsystems’ innovative Au1250 Alchemy processors to power our SP-L305 projectors,” said JeongHo Nho, vice president of Samsung Electronics. “We have been very impressed and pleased with the Alchemy processors as they offer the superior processing performance at extremely low power levels that have enabled us to develop our highly competitive and leading-edge SP-L305 projectors.”
“We are excited to have further broadened our relationship with Samsung Electronics by adding the advanced SP-L305 projector to the list of Samsung products that are powered by our Alchemy processors,” said Mike Wodopian, vice president of marketing, Ultra Low-Power Alchemy Processors at NetLogic Microsystems.
“Our being selected by Samsung for its new enterprise networked video projector family further strengthens our leadership position in high-performance, low-power processing, and is a testament to the superior feature set and functionality of our ultra low-power processor family.”
NetLogic Microsystems’ low-power Au1250 processor offers a high-performance 5-stage pipeline architecture running at 700MHz, and integrates a high-performance video processor, a best-in-class LCD controller with four graphics planes for 32-bit aRGB, and a Media Acceleration Engine™ (MAE) for H.264, MPEG 1/2/4, DivX, XviD, WMV9 and VC-1 hardware acceleration. • 6-1-10
NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. is a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions that are powering next-generation Internet networks. NetLogic Microsystems’ best-in-class products perform highly differentiated tasks of accelerating complex network traffic to significantly enhance the performance and functionality of advanced 3G/4G mobile wireless infrastructure, data center, enterprise, metro Ethernet, edge and core infrastructure networks.
In association with the 21st international festival of photojournalism Visa pour l’Image, official partners FRANCE 24 and RFI are organizing the first Web Documentary Award.
This competition is the first of its kind in France. Using the most important international photojournalism festival as a platform, FRANCE 24 and RFI want to contribute to the development of interactive news coverage.
According to Stanislas Leridon, Multimedia Activities Director for Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France, “the web documentary is a new way of treating online news, combining sound, images, text and videos that exploits all Internet resources, thus offering web users a wider, truly multimedia understanding of the news. The web documentary also illustrates the perfect complementarity between radio and sound on the one hand and television and images on the other. At FRANCE 24 and RFI, we think it’s important to put the emphasis on new multimedia tools that contribute to enriching the international media panorama”.
Open to everyone, this prize will be awarded for the best journalistic approach using multimedia resources and an original angle on the news. The winner will receive a cheque of 8,000 €.
The jury will select a winner on the following criteria :
The prize-giving ceremony will take place in Perpignan, during the Visa pour l’Image festival.
The international jury of the FRANCE 24-RFI Web Documentary Award will meet in Perpignan during the festival and will be made up of web, photography and media experts.
The competition rules and application forms are also available online. Deadline for entries is July 20th. •
On2 Technologies announced the release of its 9th generation hardware video codec design, the Hantro 9170. The design supports up to full HD (1080p) resolution at 60 fps in multiple video formats including: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Sorenson Spark®, H.263, H.264, VC-1 and REALVIDEO® 8, 9 & 10 as well as up to 66 megapixel JPEG still images. The video decoder core is also accompanied with a comprehensive suite of image processing functions including colour space conversion, alpha blending, de-interlacing and image scaling.
Intended for chipsets targeting multimedia devices (DVD/Blu-ray players, HD set-top boxes, mobile phones & handheld devices, gaming machines etc.), the Hantro 9170 is built on silicon-proven designs deployed in millions of chips worldwide and provides semiconductor manufacturers with a minimal risk solution for integrating high performance video capability to their chipsets.
By integrating a hardware video codec, chip-makers are able to off-load from the processor core the computationally complex algorithms that are needed for playing back a compressed video stream and adjusting it for the display. This enables them to reduce overall power consumption and achieve levels of performance otherwise unattainable.
In addition to the benefits outlined above, the Hantro 9170 design is exceptionally fast, requiring under 120MHz clock frequency to decode 1080p video at 30 fps. It also uses unique pre-fetching and buffering mechanisms to enable smooth operation with low-end SDRAMs. Together these features realize significant savings in power and overall chip design and manufacturing costs.
“This is our fastest codec ever, the result of evolution in our designs over many years,” said Jani Huoponen, General manager, On2 Embedded Business Unit. “Through extensive resource sharing and continuous improvements, we have also maintained the codec’s silicon area at a very attractive level. Furthermore, the Hantro 9170 is fully configurable for resolution and format support, which means our customers can make best use of silicon area to target specific markets or develop a one-size-fits-all high-performance multimedia processor.”
Available for licensing in the second quarter of 2009, the Hantro 9170 is a hand-written RTL (Register Transfer Level) design and is delivered as source code (VHDL or Verilog). Delivery also includes an RTL test bench with test data, ANSI C source code for hardware drivers with software test bench and test data, and hardware & software integration guides and API manuals. • 9-4-09
Mobintech introduces first digital Personal Display Glasses (PDG) for Mobile TV, offering better picture quality, ultra-lightweight Danish design and up to double the battery lifetime compared to watching mobile TV on the mobile screen. The PDG supports the growing trend of Mobile TV and replaces the small screen on the mobile phone with a window equivalent to watching a 30" TV from a distance of 2 meters.
Denmark-based company, Mobintech A/S, today announced the launch of the innovative digital PDG at the MWC-congress in Barcelona. The PDG replaces the small screen on a mobile phone and is expected to revolutionize the market for Mobile TV. Mobintech's PDG's are the first digital PDG on the market, which offers new, great benefits for consumers like: double battery-time compared to viewing mobile TV on the phone screen, no extra cables or batteries, no flickering as known from analogue display glasses and more mobility due to lighter and smaller design.
Together with a mobile phone equipped with a digital TV-out interface, the digital PDG creates new possibilities for mobile operators and mobile content suppliers in making more revenue from content services like mobile TV. With the PDG live Mobile TV, news, sport, shows and videos will be accessible for users in a much more entertaining and user-friendly manner whereever they are in the office, in the home or on the go. The device is also perfect for the large group of people commuting on trains, busses or planes as this is the ideal situation for relaxing and watching movies or downloaded material.
"We are proud to finally launch the result of several years of intensive work. The digital PDG allows the football match, news or movie to come to live and give operators and manufactures a new, unique offering towards the growing number of consumers who are interested in Mobile TV." said Christian Zilstorff, CEO Mobintech A/S." The amount of consumers who are already using Mobile TV is large and the expectations for this market are huge as more and more content will be available similar to your TV at home and at a reasonable price. E.g. MobiTV was signing up 1 million new users in just 3 month in the end of 2008 and have more than 5 million users by now."
The digital PDG technologies developed by Mobintech secures a sharp and crisp image quality which, combined with the stereo earplugs, creates an experience equivalent to watching TV at home on a 30" TV. Mobility is truly supported by ensuring that no external battery packages or chargers are needed. The Mobintech PDG use the battery power of the mobile phone, but with much lower power consumption than the screen of the mobile phone, allowing consumers to watch up to double the hours of mobile TV due to the low-power patent pending technology. The new PDG comes in a stylish Danish design in a variety of cool colors. The design is created by leading Danish designers and is elegant and ultra-light weight as well as created in a slim, narrow design that even allows users to keep an eye on the external surroundings. • MWC 09: Booth B69 - Hall 2.1
Mobintech is a Danish based company supplying unique consumer accessories for Mobile phone users. The company is specializing in design, development and production of micro-display based products and low-power electronic products to be used by mobile phone users worldwide. Mobintech was founded in 2000 by Christian Zilstorff.
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Mobile and broadband networks market
Dilithium announced that its Dilithium Content Adapter (DCA) is a finalist for a 2009 InfoVision Award in the category of "Wireless Broadband". The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) announced the finalists of its InfoVision Awards program naming the technologies, applications, products, advances and services judged as the most unique and beneficial to the information and communications technologies (ICT) industry.
The DCA solution enables service providers to extend the reach of video value-added content beyond their initial boundaries, and is the only product on the market that supports 2.5G and 3G smartphones for both on-demand and live content delivery, including iPhone, Blackberry and Android devices. DCA supports the most live and pre-recorded video formats and performs on-the-fly and on-demand transport, media formatting, and codec and bitrate adaptation. Customers do not need to install a special application on their handset, and can access the video services via EDGE, WiFi or 3G networks, depending on the Blackberry model.
"The IEC's InfoVision Awards give tribute to the top broadband technologies in deployment today. We're pleased to recognize Dilithium as a Finalist for its Dilithium Content Adapter in the Wireless Broadband category," commented IEC President John Janowiak.
Finalists for this award were selected by a panel of judges chosen from the Broadband World Forum Europe 2009 program committee, consisting of industry experts from vendor companies, service providers and industry associations. The IEC will announce winners on Monday, 7 September at 14:00 at the World Forum. • 10-6-09
FRANCE 24 is the first live TV channel available worldwide on the Apple iPhone via 3G networks. To deliver this service FRANCE 24 relies on the Mobiclip video distribution platform.
Building upon the success of the initial release which supported wifi, users can now access FRANCE 24 LIVE in French, English and Arabic over any wireless data network.
Warmly received by users since its launch on the Apple App Store on 8th of February 2009, the FRANCE 24 LIVE application has been downloaded more than 100,000 times around the world.
Of all the free news applications available on iTunesâ, FRANCE 24 LIVE ranks among the top 10 worldwide; most notably in the USA, the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Israel, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, India, Brazil, etc.
To watch FRANCE 24 LIVE and in VOD anywhere in the world, connect to the Apple App Store to download the free FRANCE 24 LIVE application. • 24-2-09
White paper
Increased Content Portability in Home Networks Opens Potential for Piracy on a Wider Range of Digital Devices
Cloakware Inc. has released a new white paper that details how advanced features of the next generation of set-top boxes have created new content security challenges. Such new content portability developments as Home Networking in which content is pushed beyond the TV to a wide range of connected digital devices has significantly increased the complexity of security requirements. According to the white paper, “Security Impacts of Next-Generation Set-Top Boxes”, set-top boxes (STB) and their associated conditional access (CA) systems and digital rights management (DRM) technologies are under increased threat from device tampering, software security breaches and hacker attacks that can significantly impact the reputation and bottom line for both STB manufacturers and service providers.
Consumer demand for media-rich home entertainment services has driven innovation and new revenue opportunities in the STB industry. Next-generation STBs will integrate video content from multiple signal sources such as broadcast television, premium video-on-demand and Internet-based services as well as provide value-added capabilities like time-shifting. They will also allow content to be distributed to a variety of viewing devices including multi-room TV networks, personal computers, portable media players and other mobile devices which are more susceptible to piracy than set-top boxes.
At the same time, content owners, including movie and television studios, demand protection against the piracy of their intellectual property and require that content licensees (such as cable or satellite operators) take steps to prevent security breaches and to mitigate against damage should a breach occur as part of their distribution agreements.
“Set-top box manufacturers have rigorous compliance and robustness rules that they need to address to satisfy their customers,” said Greg McKesey, Vice President of Consumer Products for Cloakware. “Cloakware provides them with cost effective, drop in, easy to integrate content protection components that meet or exceed studio and operator content security requirements, allowing these set-top box manufacturers to meet those stringent regulations and get their products to market faster.”
Cloakware, an Irdeto company and part of the Naspers group, provides innovative, secure, proven software technology solutions that enable customers to protect business and digital assets in enterprise, consumer and government markets. Cloakware’s two main product lines include; Cloakware Datacenter Solutions which help organizations meet governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) objectives for privileged password management while ensuring business continuity and the security of mission-critical data and IT infrastructure. Cloakware Consumer Product Solutions protect software and content on PCs, set-top boxes, mobile phones and media players. Protecting more than one billion deployed applications, Cloakware is the security cornerstone of many of the world's largest, most recognizable and technologically advanced companies. Headquartered in Vienna, VA and Ottawa, Canada, Cloakware has regional sales offices worldwide.
