Philips & PacketVideo Demonstrate Interoperable Wireless MPEG-4 Streaming Media At COMDEX Fall 2000

Advanced Application Features Streaming Media, Over Wireless IP Network, On Mobile Communications Device

PacketVideo Corp., the global leader in wireless media, and the MP4Net division of Philips Digital Networks, a pioneer in leading-edge MPEG-4 multimedia solutions, will each deploy its own MPEG-4 technology in a collaborative demonstration featuring multimedia streaming to wireless consumer devices at COMDEX Fall 2000.

This demonstration represents one of the first public displays of interoperable MPEG-4 technology from Philips and PacketVideo, further validating the MPEG-4 standard as a primary medium for allowing broadband service providers to offer exciting new applications and services in the fast-evolving broadcast environment. The demonstration will take place in the Philips COMDEX booth (L2549) at the Las Vegas Convention Center (Level 1, North Hall 1).

The demonstration features the Philips MP4Net WebCine encoder, which produces MPEG-4 files that are transported on a wireless IP network. The MPEG-4 bitstream will simultaneously be decoded and displayed by PacketVideo's wireless, error-resilient decoding software, PVPlayer(TM), on a Windows CE personal digital assistant (PDA). This combined PacketVideo and Philips technology enables enriched audio, video and graphics content to reach mobile phones, PDAs, and other wireless devices, in addition to traditional broadband wireline distribution media. This ground-breaking demonstration illustrates the strength of MPEG-4 as a multimedia codec for both the broadband and wireless distribution markets. Significantly, this capability enables a content provider to encode once for distribution over cable, Internet, and now wireless platforms.

"Our MPEG-4 interoperability initiative with PacketVideo reinforces the position of MPEG-4 as the undisputed multimedia format of choice, not only for applications on mobile devices, but also for other consumer platforms," said Ahmad Ouri, vice president and general manager, MP4Net division, Philips Digital Networks. "The use of standards has always been a requirement from service providers. Philips and PacketVideo share the vision of a convergence of multimedia applications on wireless consumer devices based on industry standard technologies."

"Our combined technologies demonstrate the strength of a standard across multiple distribution formats, including wireless," said Dr. James Brailean, president, CTO and co-founder of PacketVideo. "PacketVideo was founded on the notion of providing standards-based technology that will enable wireless service providers to address a broader user base and allow programming providers to deliver a wider array of multimedia content at a lower cost."

MPEG-4 multimedia streaming over wireless IP networks (e.g., Bluetooth, Wireless Application Protocols, and third-generation mobile networks) is an important milestone in the advancement of MPEG-4 as a communications standard that covers nearly every possibility of the digital environment in an end-to-end chain from production to consumer.

MPEG-4 enables the integration of production, distribution and content access across multiple-platforms and on a variety of network infrastructures. Differentiating from the frame-based realm of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 is the first interactive multimedia applications standard. Along with superior compression techniques, advanced features such as object-based coding, scalability and graphics support make MPEG-4 a compelling technology.


[ Home | Contact | MobiChat | Experts database | Let's do it ]

Comments to the content of this page can be posted on the MobiChat discussion group

logo.gif (1569 bytes)