"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."

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"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."

"If you are involved in the development of games or any other program that displays images, the newest version of J2K-Codec will be a valuable addition to your software development kit. J2K-Codec is a software component that offers you the easiest way to add JPEG2000 support to application. ..."

"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.

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LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions that make it significantly easier to manage and distribute digital content such as aerial photography, satellite imagery and scanned color documents, today announced the release of GeoExpress 5.0 SDK. This latest release of the SDK offers unlimited encoding capabilities to both MrSID and JPEG 2000 and exposes functionality contained in the GeoExpress 5.0 standalone product including JPEG 2000 encoding, NPJE/EPJE profiles, support for WKT-based spatial reference system metadata, and area of interest encoding of imagery to MrSID Generation 3 (MG3) as well as JPEG 2000.

"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."

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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.

Common computers are morphing into powerful microscopes at UQ as the University trials virtual microscopes and unveils a plan to build a national repository of virtual veterinary slides.

Virtual microscopes, created by UQ's Schools of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE) and Veterinary Science, are computers with special software that do the job of high-end laboratory microscopes.

Project leader and UQ Vet School senior lecturer Dr Paul Mills said virtual microscopes were accurate and users could zoom in or out, view depths of field, label their slides and rotate them like a three-dimensional image. ...

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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.