"Declaring an end to dictated formats and closed solutions that cause workflow inefficiencies and frustrate broadcasters and videographers, Thomson today announced the Infinity™ Series, a new line of next-generation acquisition, recording and storage devices that give broadcasters and videographers the power of choice — in recording media, formats, compression codecs,
and connectivity."

...

"As an additional choice of compression, the next-generation JPEG2000 codec is also included. JPEG 2000 offers special advantages over other compression codes: it offers higher-quality compression with better efficiency, delivers superb images without blocking artifacts at low bit rates, and, with its unique scalability, allows broadcasters ultimate flexibility by enabling them to encode a master file and then decode different resolutions as necessary."

"Pulse~LINK, Inc., developer of CWave(TM) Ultra Wideband (UWB) communications, and Analog Devices, Inc., a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, have joined forces to demonstrate the industry's first wireless transmission of real-time High Definition video. The joint demonstration, featuring a side-by-side comparison of MPEG and JPEG2000 across Pulse-LINK's UWB wireless link, will take place at the DisplaySearch HDTV Conference, August 23-24, 2005, in Beverly Hills, CA.

"MainConcept, a worldwide leader in codec technology, has announced an aggressive new product roadmap. Together with the newly acquired Elecard team, MainConcept has been working for the past few months on a completely new codec lineup. The new message of MainConcept is "Every Codec. Every Platform." The goal is to offer all of the most-requested codec formats on all of the most-requested platforms."

From the press release:

QuVIS, Inc. has announced the first public exhibition of a successful decryption, decoding and playback of the DCI StEM JPEG2000 reference material at the upcoming Cinema Expo in Amsterdam RAI, June 28 through 30. This process was successfully demonstrated at the Digital Cinema Labs in Los Angeles, Calf., on June 17, 2005, reaching another milestone in the delivery of the next generation Digital Cinema systems.

QuVIS will display this content on a QuVIS Cinema Player, the third-generation QuVIS platform designed to track the emerging Digital Cinema Initiatives recommendations. QuVIS has announced availability of JPEG2000 as a low-cost option for the QuVIS Cinema Player in August 2005.

Accom® today [April 14, 2005] announced at the National Association of Broadcasters convention, the launch of ProServ MX.8, the industry’s most versatile video production server. The ProServ MX.8 offers up to four high definition channels or up to eight standard definition channels. All channels offer symmetrical inputs and outputs. For complete versatility, ProServ MX.8 can simultaneously record, play, edit and manage HD and SD content.

ProServ MX.8 uses high-quality JPEG 2000 compression with user-selectable bit rates ranging from 25 to 200 Mb/s. To ensure frame accurate insert editing, I-Frame only compression is used.

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC) has announced a new dual-channel video compression/decompression board, the Orion, available in both PMC and PCI form factors for use in VME, CompactPCI and desktop PCI systems. The Orion features dual on-board JPEG 2000 engines to support full-frame encoding of standard 625-line PAL or 525-line NTSC composite video. [...]

As a follow-on to last summer's gathering of video archivists and
technologists here at the National Library of Medicine, I have been
considering ways to encourage lossless video encoding for preservation,
with a particular interest in JPEG 2000 frame encodings.

Towards that end, and following a suggestion by Ron Murray at the
Library of Congress about MPEG-A as an attractive vehicle for
cross-cutting standards, I've drafted a "strawman" set of documents for
the community's consideration, which may be found at
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/VideoArchivists2005/follow-on.html. You will

From the press release:

Matrox Imaging today announced the Matrox Morphis for PC/104-Plus™, a capture board with a dual video decoder architecture and a real-time JPEG2000 compression/decompression engine. This board is the ideal video acquisition option for the Matrox 4Sight M, a highly integrated platform that is used to develop digital video recorders (DVRs) or network/web-enabled video servers for remote surveillance.

By Ian Gilmour of Media Matters. From the abstract: Motion-JPEG2000 lossless data reduction is implemented as a key technology for reducing file size in storage and for reducing data rates in networked file transfer.

An August 1, 2005 invitational meeting gathered about fifty archivists and technologists involved in the long term preservation of videos and films. The meeting, "Getting to Disk-based Lossless Digital Video Compression", was hosted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, itself much involved in moving image preservation.

Participants considered the potential of lossless, on-disk video storage in light of the "twilight of tape" as a cost-effective storage media. Other speakers reviewed current video metadata standards, and recent work in automatic extraction of metadata from video. The meeting included the first public demonstration of real-time, full-screen, mathematically-lossless video compression and decompression based on the Motion JPEG 2000 (MJ2) standard.