TransVideo and Blackfin® Deliver High-Quality IPTV to Chinese-Americans
H.264 resolves the longstanding quality-versus-bandwidth conundrum by allowing broadcast-quality video to be delivered over the Internet at data rates of less than 1 Mbit/second.
Called the Digital Media Device (DMD) 2000, DMD3000, DMD2500, and DMD3500, TransVideo's Blackfin-based line of products support a proprietary CODEC based on the new H.264/MPEG4-AVC standard. The company's IPTV terminals feature support for the H.264 decode format at 25 – 30 frames per second, a 500 – 1,500 Kbps audio bit rate, multiple output and network connections, MP3 stereo, S-Video, and RCA connections. The products also support cable modems, ADSL, Ethernet, and WLAN. All these devices support Video-On-Demand (VOD) and multi-channel broadcast. The DMD3000 and DMD3500 also support downloads.