Tag: Transcoding

SiliconDust Phase 2 with New Hardware with Hardware Transcoding

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Phase 2 of the SiliconDust announcements this morning are new hardward for US and a new device for Europe and Australia that now have hardware transcoding built-in. These will have high quality digital-to-digital conversion of high-bandwidth MPEG2 streams to bandwidth-friendly H.264.  “The next generation HDHomeRun® devices will do what no other TV tuner has been able to do before,” said […]

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Verizon Media Server Nearing Field Trials

Verizon got in the holiday spirit last year by dropping a short video that gave a taste of the future for Verizon FIOS subscribers; a future in which Verizon would serve TV streams to every room in subscribers’ homes via a media server. There were even seemingly pie-in-the-sky scenarios as the media server was depicted streaming out to game consoles, […]

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