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Envivio Convergence and Mobile Encoders to Offer Complete Support for US ATSC Mobile DTV Standard

 

Leading Broadcast System Providers Rely on Envivio Encoding to Demonstrate their New Solutions for Mobile Broadcast

 

South San Francisco, CA – April 15, 2009 – Envivio Inc., the leading provider of compression solutions for Three Screens video convergence, today announced that it is supporting the proposed ATSC Mobile DTV Candidate Standard for mobile television broadcast in the United States in both its award-winning 4Caster™ C4 convergence encoder and M2 mobile encoder. Envivio products will be relied upon by multiple vendors at NAB 2009 in their demonstrations of complete ATSC Mobile DTV video delivery solutions.

Envivio encoders were used in technology demonstrations throughout the development of the proposed ATSC Mobile DTV standard by the leading contributing groups including MPH and the A-VSB Initiative. Envivio encoders are deployed worldwide to enable efficient delivery of high quality advanced mobile broadcast TV services over a wide variety of delivery standards, including DVB-H, DVB-SH, ISDB-T and CMMB, to a broad range of mobile devices including mobile phones, portable media players and ultra mobile PCs.

"ATSC Mobile DTV offers broadcasters an exciting opportunity to develop compelling new services that will appeal to consumers hungry for mobile entertainment," said Julien Signès, President and CEO of Envivio. "The incredible flexibility of Envivio's encoding platform enables our customers to embrace evolving standards and technologies while still retaining the confidence and ease of support that comes from working with a proven platform. This flexibility has allowed operators to deliver many hundreds of Mobile TV channels to millions of subscribers worldwide using a wide range of standards. We are very proud to be working with world-class partners in their demonstrations of complete, end-to-end solutions for delivering services via the ATSC Mobile DTV standard."

Axcera | Booth C8546D, C1319 | www.axcera.com
Axcera is a leading manufacturer and integrator of best-of-breed transmission technology for the television broadcast, mobile media and broadband wireless access industries. Axcera will demonstrate its complete end-to-end ATSC Mobile DTV transmission solution consisting of Axcera's new ATSC Mobile DTV Pre-Processor/Multiplexer, for combining terrestrial and mobile content along with an ESG into a single transport stream, feeding an ATSC broadcast transmitter with Axcera's industry leading AxciterTM adaptive digital television modulator, which will be used to deliver Envivio-encoded content to a mobile receiver.

"We are pleased with this opportunity to collaborate with other best-of-breed manufacturers to demonstrate the interoperability of the ATSC Mobile DTV candidate standard", says David Neff, President of Axcera. "The interoperability of the ATSC Mobile DTV solution we are demonstrating should provide broadcasters with confidence knowing that it can be implemented quickly and will perform all of the features of ATSC Mobile DTV. We are also pleased to demonstrate this cutting edge transmission solution to NAB 2009 attendees, allowing them to experience the technology first hand."

LARCAN | Booth C2616 | www.larcan.com
LARCAN is a leading developer and provider of end-to-end broadcast solutions for all worldwide Mobile TV standards. LARCAN offers complete planning and equipment solutions for broadcast applications and mobile video. LARCAN will be demonstrating its new ATSC Mobile DTV Multiplex-Gateway at NAB booth C2616 where broadcasters can see Mobile DTV streams encoded by Envivio in real-time, as well as legacy MPEG-2 ATSC Transport Streams.

"We are very excited to demonstrate our new ATSC Mobile DTV products and our "systems" approach to DTV mobile," said Scott Barella, Vice President of Technology and Business Development at LARCAN. "We have chosen to partner with Envivio because of their experience in leading-edqe MPEG-4 encoding technologies. Our goal is to be able to provide a complete turnkey state-of-the-art package for broadcasters that is not only affordable, but robust enough for future demands. Envivio is key to our strategy and future development of this critical broadcast market space."

Envivio will demonstrate its industry leading encoding family of products at NAB 2009 in Las Vegas from April 20 – 23, 2009 at Booth SU2424.

About Envivio Inc.
Envivio Inc. is the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions for telcos and broadcasters. Envivio is the only company to offer convergence solutions supporting the "Three Screens" of consumer video – TVs, PCs and mobile phones – making IP video a reality over any type of network and to any multimedia device from mobile to HD. Envivio solutions deliver industry leading AVC (H.264), AVS, and Windows Media Video (VC 1) compressed video quality at the lowest bit rate for mobile TV, Internet TV, IPTV, and broadcast applications. Service providers worldwide use Envivio solutions to reduce their operational costs while offering subscribers the most compelling and highest quality video services anytime and anywhere. Visit www.envivio.com for more information.

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