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Rhozet and StreamingMedia.com are partnering to provide a Webinar titled "Transcoding 101".  As video becomes increasingly more pervasive, content creators and distributors face a daunting array of options when deciding which video formats to use for production, post-production, storage and delivery. Because no single format can serve all needs, transcoding technology is fast becoming the linchpin in enterprise and broadcast content delivery pipelines.

In less than a year, subscribers to TV services powered by the Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and multimedia software platform have more than doubled, reaching over 2 million subscriber homes and powering services on nearly 4 million set-top boxes worldwide. In the past quarter alone, Mediaroom customers have connected 500,000 new subscribers across the globe.

The accelerated growth rate comes as customers begin to maximize the functionality of the Mediaroom platform to differentiate their service offering with features such as personalized weather and sports information, the freedom to play back standard-definition and high-definition recorded programs on any connected TV in the home, or the ability to set the digital video recorder (DVR) remotely via a PC or mobile device

Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, today announced that it has been awarded the prestigious 2008 TelcoTV Vision Award for its 4Caster C4 Three Screens multi-channel, multi-profile encoder for IPTV, Internet TV and Mobile TV applications. Selection was spearheaded by a panel of industry experts who sought to identify the year's most innovative product among all encoding technologies for mobile or terrestrial applications. The award was received at a ceremony held recently at the TelcoTV 2008 conference in Anaheim, California.

Digital Rapids -- a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and movie content to the Internet and the latest generation of viewing devices -- today announced the appointment of Barry Fairhurst as Vice President of Sales.

Based in Digital Rapids' Markham, Ontario head office, Fairhurst will be responsible for the development, implementation and management of sales strategies and processes in support of the company's continuing strong growth and broad customer base. Fairhurst joins Digital Rapids following 13 years at Avid Canada, having managed Avid's direct and indirect sales and customer support operations.

Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, announced that its 4Caster C4 Three Screens multi-channel, multi-profile encoder for IPTV, Internet TV and Mobile TV applications has been qualified by the Microsoft Mediaroom Interoperability and Qualification Lab (IQ Lab) for SD video encoding. The thorough testing performed by the IQ Lab is designed to ensure long-term interoperability and compliance of encoders and other critical components intended to support deployments of the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform.

Northrop Grumman Corporation and Digital Fountain announced that they have again successfully demonstrated the ability to improve military data link range, reliability and throughput using advanced forward error correction (FEC) technology.

During last month's Airborne Networking Capstone II exercise at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Northrop Grumman deployed DF Raptor FEC technology to improve the performance of three different data links on six different test flights. The data links carried both real-time video streaming and file transfer applications running over the dynamically routed airborne network.

Microsoft Corp. and Broadcom Corporation announced a collaboration in Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) products. The collaboration includes Microsoft and Broadcom working together to enable the popular Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV client software to operate on next-generation set-top boxes (STBs) utilizing the Broadcom BCM7405 system on a chip (SOC).This technology will permit service providers and original equipment manufacturers to support a range of features such as whole-home digital video recording (DVR), high-performance user interfaces, and photo and music sharing.

The new alliance with Broadcom exemplifies the continued commitment by Microsoft and its ecosystem partners to deliver market leadership and innovation to Microsoft Mediaroom customers and to make new connected TV services a reality for service providers worldwide. Working together, Microsoft and Broadcom are leveraging the capabilities of the BCM7405 SOC to further enhance the performance of Microsoft's Mediaroom platform in support of next-generation service provider requirements.