TEXAS INSTRUMENTS EXTENDS DSP LEADERSHIP TO REAL-TIME, HIGH-QUALITY CONSUMER VIDEOPHONES
Empowering original equipment manufacturers to bring videophones to market faster, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI)and Wintech Digital Systems Technology Corp. (Wintech) are releasing the Videophone Development Platform (VDP), a complete development platform for designing point-to-point IP-based videophone systems.
Traditional barriers to adoption of videophones include jerky video quality and high unit cost. However, the introduction of new video codecs which require half the bandwidth for video transfers, the continuing penetration of IP broadband connectivity and the availability of single-chip encode and decode implementation has overcome these last-mile barriers.
Further pushing deployment of videophones, many large carriers have announced plans to roll out IP videophones and related services for small- to mid-sized businesses and individuals with broadband Internet connections.
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