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Kulabyte™ to Begin Shipping
Industry's Fastest Video Encoding Solution, Kulabyte Professional
Encoding Suite
Other Topics: Mobile IPTV
Gateway, IPTV Network Addressing,
IPTV Telecom Service
Kulabyte
April 17, 2007
Authorized H.264 and Flash Trials Available in May; Full Flash
Product Version to Ship in June, 2007
Las Vegas, NV – Kulabyte™, a leading provider of advanced audio and
video processing technologies, today announced that it will be
shipping the industry’s fastest video encoding solution, Kulabyte
Professional Flash Encoding Suite, on April 20th. The company made
the announcement today at the National Association of Broadcasters
(NAB) conference in Las Vegas. The Kulabyte Professional encoding
solutions enable faster-than-real-time video encoding, enabling
noticeably improved picture quality and significant bandwidth
savings, while utilizing industry standard codec engines. Media
creators can encode, and distribute digital content at speeds more
than 12 times faster than industry-standard codec times and deliver
higher picture qualities.
A three-year old start-up company, Kulabyte is developing its
patent-pending TimeSlice™ video encoding technology for a wide
variety of applications. The company has introduced early versions
of the technology at previous NAB and IBC industry conferences, as
well as at other industry trade shows. The company has announced
agreements recently with leading microprocessor company AMD, as well
as leading video encoding firm On2 Technologies. |
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“We are entering the second generation
of digital video encoding, and today’s producers require fast,
interoperable, efficient solutions for encoding that run on any
codec, hardware, and network,” said Chris Gottschalk, president and
chief technology officer for Kulabyte. “The Kulabyte Professional
Encoding Suite removes the bottleneck of encoding time, whether the
application is encoding for DVD, broadcast, cable, satellite,
Internet, or mobile networks.”
Kulabyte offers its’ exclusive Live 2- pass variable bit rate (VBR)
encoding as well as in on-demand broadcasting, which enables media
companies to realize superior picture quality, faster 1 pass and
2-pass encoding speeds and optimized bandwidth utilization. Retail
pricing for Kulabyte’s Professional Flash Encoding suite, packaged
turnkey with the On2 VP6 codec engine starts at $8,000.00. The
Kulabyte Professional Encoding Suite will be unveiled at NAB in Las
Vegas, April 16-19, at the Kulabyte booth #SL13713, in the lower
level of the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
“I could not believe how easy the product was to install and
operate. It ran on hardware I didn’t think could work, processing
compressed and uncompressed video as it buried all of the
processors. I‘m completely impressed with Kulabyte’s fast
performance, quality and ease of operation; and look forward to
implementing it into our solutions,” said Wally Dragich, president
of Mississauga, Ontario-based digital video and animation hardware
and software solutions provider IC Technology.
“The current model of encoding, streaming, and transferring any
media is a time-intensive process involving many hours of research,
quality checking, and data crunching. Kulabyte’s technology
represents an exciting new approach to the process that is certain
to save us money in terms of both machine time and bandwidth
requirements,” said Seth Bennett, technical director with San
Francisco-based film and video post-production firm Rough House.
About Kulabyte
Kulabyte LLC. is a leading developer of advanced video processing
technologies. Based in San Marcos, Texas, Kula Media Group’s
engineering and management team is focused on delivering the fastest
video encoding solution in the industry, while also achieving the
highest video quality available. For further information, please
visit the company Web site at www.kulabyte.com. |
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