Sentivision News and Events

2007-09-04: Dicas and Sentivision to demonstrate MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 product interoperability at IBC 2007
2007-09-03: Sentivision Enables Real-Time Multiple Channel H.264 Encoding on the TMS320DM647 and TMS320DM648 Texas Instruments DaVinci(TM) Processors
2006-09-05: Sentivision Completes MPEG-4 Interoperability Tests with ATEME
2006-04-26: Oregan enables Sentivision's programmable DaVinci DSP-based devices, targeting next wave of IPTV Set Top Box deployments
2006-04-25: Motorola and Sentivision to Provide Set-Tops for Japanese IPTV Rollout


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

2007-09-04

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.

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.





Sentivision Enables Real-Time Multiple Channel H.264 Encoding on the TMS320DM647 and TMS320DM648 Texas Instruments DaVinci(TM) Processors

2007-09-03

TOKYO --  Aug. 27, 2007  -- Sentivision announced today a highly optimized H.264/AVC baseline profile encoder and decoder that leverages the most recent Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) digital signal processors (DSPs) based on DaVinci(TM) technology, which are optimized for video surveillance and infrastructure applications.

Sentivision software solutions offer high quality, multi-channel, and low- latency features required in surveillance and infrastructure systems.

Sentivision leverages TI's high performance TMS320DM647 and TMS320DM648 DSPs to optimize the encoding software for most optimal speed-to-quality ratio. Sentivision's H.264/AVC codec delivers significantly better quality at given bandwidth in comparison to other market solutions.

The unrivalled H.264 encoding speed decreases encoding-related CPU loads and enables analytic software to run in parallel to the encoding process, which increasingly attracts attention in contemporary surveillance applications.

Jan Rychter, Sentivision's Chief Technical Officer said, "Our past work and extensive experience with H.264 encoding and decoding solutions, coupled with the unparalleled performance and flexibility of TI's DM647 and DM648 DSPs allows us to address the most demanding surveillance, infrastructure and videoconferencing markets, where multiple channels per chip or high video quality are required."

"Surveillance and infrastructure applications are becoming more complex, and DSPs with a higher level of programmability and performance are needed to meet the intense video processing and video channel requirements of tomorrow's advanced systems," said Yvonne Lee, DSP video surveillance solutions marketing manager, TI. "TI is excited about the H.264/AVC baseline profiler Sentivision has accomplished using the silicon, tools, software and support provided by TI's DaVinci technology."

Sentivision has been continuously supplying customers with advanced video coding products available with TI's DaVinci processors. The company plans to continue this trend adopting their software products to the DM647 and DM648 DSPs with special emphasis on surveillance and security applications, enabling multi-stream H.264 encode to reduce overall system costs.

As a member of TI DSP Third Party Network, Sentivision consistently leverages the latest TI technologies to deliver high quality, robust, reliable and cutting-edge video processing solutions.

About the Texas Instruments DSP Third Party Network

Sentivision is a member of the TI DSP Third Party Network, a worldwide organization of independent companies that offer products and services supporting TI DSPs. TI third parties provide expertise across a variety of applications, including audio, control, telecom, video and imaging, and wireless communications. Third party products and services include a broad range of application software, development hardware and software, and consulting services that support original equipment manufacturers' efforts to bring differentiated products to the market quickly. For more information about the TI DSP Third Party Network, please visit http://www.ti.com/3p.

About Sentivision

Sentivision is an innovative provider of cutting-edge media technologies and products for the digital entertainment market. Broad experience in development video processing software solutions for DaVinci family processors enables it to offer the following high performance software products:
  • H.264/AVC BP Encoder for DaVinci
  • H.264/AVC BP Video-conferencing Codec for DaVinci
  • H.264/AVC MP Broadcast Decoder for DaVinci
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 Completes MPEG-4 Interoperability Tests with ATEME

2006-09-05

ATEME, a leading provider of MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 live encoders and storage encoders, successfully completed interoperability tests with Sentivision SV-300 IP STB (set-top box). Sentivision SV-300 is a low-cost IP STB capable of decoding MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC video.

ATEME announced today that it has engaged in a wide qualification and interoperability testing effort with available MPEG-4 decoding solutions. This process covers in particular the ability of the decoding solution to support all tools of the MPEG-4 standard - as used in a best-in-class encoder implementation, the robustness to network failures – most important to IPTV customers, and for HD decoders the rendering capabilities with commercially available HD displays.

The proven interoperability with outstanding picture quality of Ateme encoders and Sentivision SV-300 IP STB enable significant time saving and risk reduction for Telcos, cable or satellite operators to deploy MPEG-4 AVC based services.

ATEME’s MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 video compression solutions will be demonstrated at IBC 2006 show – September 8-12 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on Ateme booth (# 4.378)

About Sentivision Sentivision is an innovative provider of cutting-edge media technologies and products for the digital entertainment market. Sentivision products include IP set-top boxes and complete solutions for Video on Demand (VOD) and IP-TV broadcasting over the Internet.

About ATEME ATEME is a world-leading provider of MPEG-4 video compression solutions. The superior quality of its encoding technology makes it the best choice for demanding mobile to HD applications. ATEME’s customers benefit from the highest quality video at the lowest bit rates while reducing industrial risk and lowering time-to-market.





Oregan enables Sentivision's programmable DaVinci DSP-based devices, targeting next wave of IPTV Set Top Box deployments

2006-04-26

London, UK, 26 April, 2006 – Oregan Networks, a media browser company, has licensed its IPTV client software to a Japanese-based Set Top Box vendor Sentivision. Sentivision will deliver complete turnkey products to telecommunications service operators in Western Europe and US.

Oregan provides Sentivision with a set of silicon- and OS-independent software building blocks for enabling a complete network entertainment experience: XHTML internet browsing, including the recently launched native rendering of Macromedia® Flash® 7.0 content, as well as broadband television and plug-and-play home network media sharing.

The flagship product of the Oregan-Sentivision collaboration, the SV-300 IP Set Top Box, is powered by Texas Instruments’ DaVinciTM - an advanced video and graphics DSP technology, enabling H.264 VC1 and WMV9 encode / decode capabilities.

Mark G Perry, Oregan’s Chief Executive Officer said ‘Oregan is pleased to be working with Sentivision - an expert in programmable DSP-based CPE solutions, providing advanced end user functionalities as well as industry-leading media decode standards. The development of the IPTV industry has suffered severe delays caused by deficiency of robust devices, capable of delivering H.264 and VC1 video streams – a momentous link in creating ecosystems for scalable distribution of broadband entertainment. We are confident that working with Sentivision will yield rapid and impressive results for telecommunication services wishing to deploy a triple-play strategy in a cost-effective manner.’

Yoichi Akase, Sentivision’s Chief Executive Officer said ‘We believe that Oregan’s solution will enable us to resolve many end-user related issues, such as poor user interface responsiveness, slow switch between applications and limited interactivity. We value the open architecture that lends itself to easy integration with HTML and Flash UI based middleware, such as Orca, Minerva and Tandberg, as well as the multiple functionality of the solution, which manages broadband delivery and sharing of digital media in a highly compressed footprint’.

About Oregan Networks Ltd.

Oregan Networks (www.oregan.net) provides unique expertise in highly integrated internet media client solutions enabling web infotainment services, IPTV, and home network media distribution functionalities on consumer electronics and carrier grade IPTV appliances. Over 3 million units of Oregan’s software have been licensed to leading global brands, including Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Philips Electronics and NTT.

About Sentivision

Sentivision (www.sentivision.com) is an innovative provider of cutting-edge IP-TV media solutions and products for the digital entertainment market. Sentivision products include: Complete Solutions for Video On Demand (VOD) and IP-TV broadcasting over the Internet, Set Top Boxes supporting H.264/AVC and VC-1 over IP networks. Sentivision is committed to providing its customers with solutions enabling secure and reliable video transmission over broadband IP-based networks such as ADSL. Sentivision is based in Tokyo, Japan with branch offices located in Poland and China. Sentivision is an affiliate company of Sony Communication Network Corporation (SCN), which holds 36.8% of its issued shares.





Motorola and Sentivision to Provide Set-Tops for Japanese IPTV Rollout

2006-04-25

First international deployment of the Motorola VIP IPTV set-top platform underscores Motorola's global leadership in Telco TV solutions.

TOKYO, April 25 - Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that Sentivision, an innovative provider of cutting edge media technologies and products for digital entertainment, has selected the Motorola VIP series IPTV set-top platform for providing video service to Japanese subscribers.

Sentivision becomes the first service provider outside of North America to deploy the Motorola VIP set-top, further establishing Motorola as a leading global provider of Telco TV solutions.

As a standards-based, open-architecture platform, the Motorola VIP series set-tops can be integrated with middleware from any provider. This means that service providers like Sentivision can offer a suite of advanced applications to their users that best serve the needs of the local market. For this service deployment, Sentivision will port its advanced middleware suite to the Motorola set-top platform.

Motorola provides a robust IPTV platform that brings high-definition TV (HDTV), video-on-demand (VOD), digital video recording (DVR), multi-room streaming, and other connected home applications into subscribers' homes.

"Our middleware integration was made simple by using Motorola's leading digital IP video platform," said Yochi Akase, CEO, Sentivision. "The open nature of the platform and the expertise brought together by combining Sentivision and Motorola is sure to result in a robust video offering to customers."

"Motorola IPTV solution combined with Sentivision middleware will bring some of the most advanced video services available into the homes of Japanese customers," said Doug Means, Motorola corporate vice president and general manager, Connected Home Solutions. "We are proud to add Sentivision to our IPTV ecosystem. Together, we can create a unique video entertainment service delivered through one of the most advanced digital set-top platforms available."

About the Motorola VIP Set-top Platform

The Motorola VIP1200 series of IP-based set-tops gives service providers an advanced and flexible platform for delivering next-generation video content and services. Designed to meet operators' evolving business needs and consumers' desire for television choice, these set-tops leverage Motorola's decades of experience in video delivery and the company's proven expertise in emerging standards and new network architectures. The Motorola VIP1200 series supports industry-leading video codecs, digital rights management (DRM) solutions, and software from multiple middleware vendors.

The VIP1200J series includes the following set-top models with connectors and options specifically for the Japanese market:

  • VIP1200Japan, Single TV High Definition IP set-top
  • VIP1216Japan, Single TV High Definition IP set-top with integrated hard disk drive (HDD) for digital video recording (DVR)

About Sentivision

Sentivision, an affiliate company of Sony Communication Network Corporation (SCN), which holds 36.8% of its issued shares, is an innovative provider of cutting-edge media technologies and products for the digital entertainment market. Sentivision products include set-top boxes, video codecs, content streaming engines, and more. Sentivision is committed to providing its customers with solutions enabling secure and reliable video transmission over low and medium bandwidth IP-based networks, such as DSL lines.

Based in Tokyo, Japan, the company has its R&D facilities in Warsaw, Poland. For more information contact Sentivision at 4-7-35 Gotenyama Garden 4F, Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 140-0001 Japan, Voice: +81-3-5420-3048. Fax: +81-3-5420-3680. E-mail: press@sentivision.co.jp Web: http://sentivision.com/

About Motorola

Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of Seamless Mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you get and stay connected simply and seamlessly to the people, information, and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $36.8 billion in 2005. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit http://www.motorola.com

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