Allowing users to design consumer electronics that connect directly to miniDV camcorders over IEEE-1394, the NW721 digital-video (DV) codec provides a bi-directional digital-to-digital path to next ...

Dolby Laboratories has developed a more efficient backward-compatible extension to its Dolby Digital 5.1-channel audio codec for use by digital-cable and satellite-TV operators who want to compress ...

CODEC is one of those newly invented words that's only been in the dictionary for a few years, yet what it represents may be one of the most important pieces of technology in all of AV. There are at ...

Targeting sound cards, digital televisions, and portable video recorders, the 103-dB–SNR, 24-bit sigma-delta-DACWM8569 stereo codec includes oversampling and digital-interpolation filters. The device ...

(click thumbnail)Nero DigitalNero is promoting its Nero Digital Audio as a video and audio codec solution. It is based on MPEG-4 ISO 14496-2/-3/-10 standards, which it says allows the flexibility to ...

The ADV216 video CODEC employs Analog Devices’ Wavescale compression technology, which is based on the JPEG2000 compression standard commonly used in high-end professional imaging applications.