NTT Electronics Releases High-Quality Full HD H.264 Encoder/Transcoder LSI

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Tokyo, Japan - NTT Electronics Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward (hereafter, NTT Electronics), today announced the release of the Matiz-Advance H.264/AVC encoder/ transcoder LSI.

Matiz-Advance is a single-chip encoder/transcoder LSI for professional use that performs real-time transcoding of high-quality video. Since Matiz-Advance's encoding control is compatible with CBR

^(*1)and VBR

^(*2), as well as with the optional Capped VBR

^(*3), it can be applied to a wide variety of video and audio equipment for professional use. Matiz-Advance also has an HDTV-SDTV downscaler and optionally supports flexible encoding control with its seamless bit rate change capability.

An increasing number of digital broadcasting systems are employing H.264/AVC as a video compression format these days because it provides both high compression and high quality video simultaneously. Most professional video equipment has traditionally used MPEG-2, but today's equipment is increasingly using H.264/AVC for applications such as image editing and archiving, which involves recording images, and for bandwidth-constrained services such as satellite broadcasting and IPTV. Matiz-Advance provides the best solution for these applications.

Matiz-Advance transcodes MPEG-2 images into the more compression-efficient H.264/AVC format, effectively reducing video data sizes by 50 percent or less while retaining high video quality. Matiz-Advance is especially useful in applications such as IPTV headends, video servers, and video editors. These applications require high-end encoders that can transcode content distributed and stored in MPEG-2 format into H.264/AVC format. The single-chip design of Matiz-Advance enables a more compact yet high-performance design of equipment.

NTT Electronics plans to add other functions to this LSI, such as closed captioning

(*4), which is required for digital terrestrial broadcasting, CATV, and IPTV. This upgrade will be available to customers via a future firmware update.

Matiz-Advance will be on display at NAB 2009 from April 20 to 23 at NTT Electronics' booth # SU11723.

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