Apr 12, 2006 5:13 PM, Digital Signage Update e-newsletter
Snell & Wilcox recently unveiled Helios, its new software-based conversion platform that eliminates the boundaries between video formats, global standards and new media display devices. Helios ensures that all digital media, including live video, will perform optimally on any platform, anywhere — whether it be broadcast television, Websites, iPods, mobile telephones, IPTV, video-on-demand, broadband or new services that will be developed in the future.
Helios brings Snell & Wilcox's conversion, compression and signal processing expertise to the file-based domain. Combining the company's Ph.C motion estimation and FormatFusion technologies, Helios makes it possible for content owners and broadcasters to "master once, distribute anywhere."
The FCC has issued captioning requirements for all online video. Learn how to meet the requirements of the new rules and how to automate the technical process.
Video compression, editing and displays is an in-depth tutorial on MPEG compression technology, editing MPEG content and evaluating color video monitors written by long-time video expert, trainer and writer Steve Mullen, Ph. D.
File-based technologies have replaced video tape methods for a majority of production and broadcast operations. The worlds of AV and IT are coalescing to create new methods and workflows for media
