(keitai-l) Re: i-motion Mpeg3

Thanks for the link, Sam...
I checked them out and even went to visit them, last time I was in Helsinki.
They had MPEG4 running on a Engineering Board.
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They have been puttering along since '93 as a ASIC company with about 30 IC Engineers.
They have developed a codec, that is ready for chip implementation. That's it.
Hardly the Company that is going to turn around and revolutionize the way we
watch Video information on all sorts of keitai's in Japan and then rest of the
globe.
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All they have is a codec. No delivery architecture, No Servers, No real solution
like PV, Emblaze or HelloNetwork.
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Those companies have mature, end-to-end delivery tools for their products, server
products, player products, everything. They are just about there.
The only difference is, that these companies focus on different markets, verticals
and different devices for now.
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Yes, they would like to run on eveything; but they cannot. They know their limitations.
PV knows, they run on a PDA very successfully because it is the right environment
for them. All the glory is there: CPU speed, Memory, fat pipe.
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They know, that they could not run in a "mainstream" phone for a while, because
the phone cannot execute a required 375k MPEG4 Player.
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Emblaze works great as long as you have that special Phone from Samsung with
the hardware accelerator chip in it, and you have rigged your providers backend
with the appropriate hardware to pipe out 500 streams (simul) to reach a 10X
of anticipated subscribers.
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Hellonetwork supposed to be very small in footprint, (14k) and work over thin
networks (9.6), but only works if you have java somewhere on the phone or device,
because they run inside the JVM, that is supposedly installed on a limited amount
of "mainstream" phones. That means your average keitai user on the J-Train.
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So, like I said before....
A no-nonsense solution will be a combination of all the technologies out there,
to serve our very diverse needs.

/thanks for listening
/> > Christian Morgenstern
> > Chief Scientist
> > WAP Forum.co.uk

---- "Sam Markkanen" <sam.markkanen@menire.com> wrote:
> CHECK OUT http://www.hantro.com/mpeg4-iexplore.html . HANTRO is a Finland
> based "MPEG4" company who claim that their MPEG4 codec solution works with
> processor speeds of 10Mhz upwards. I definately have to disagree to the
> statement "mobile phones won't be able to display MPEG4 for a long time".
> -sam-
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <portals@onebox.com>
> To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 5:33 AM
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: i-motion Mpeg3

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