Pace Launches First Ever Hardware H.264 Set-Top Box

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[Policani's Digital Media Blog] IPTV is one step closer thanks to an innovative new product from Pace Micro Technology , the world's largest dedicated developer of digital set-top box technology. The company has developed the World's first hardware H.264 decode set-top box - the IP215 - to provide telcos and operators with an entry-level solution for the lucrative IPTV market.  [ more... ]

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[Computer Alchemy] Pace throws down IP215, an H.264 set-top box: Pace Micro Technology is known moreso for their set-topbox development moreso than their forays intoPVP-land, and happily so for they’re putting out whatlooks like the world’s first H.264-based hardware set-top box, the IP215. You know H.264 — the codec to end allcodecs, the one that Apple is betting will usher in the yearof HD. Offloading all of the nasty decoding work to the hardware box frees up a lot of processing power hogged upby software-based solutions, making this unit a rather interesting device in the field ofIPTV.

[Hdtv.engadget.com] Pace throws down IP215, an H.264 set-top box - HDTV - hdtv ...: Pace Micro Technology is known moreso for their set-top box development moreso than their forays into PVP-land, and happily so for they’re putting out what looks like the world’s first H.264-based hardware set-top box, the IP215. You know H.264 — the codec to end all codecs, the one that Apple is betting will usher in the year of HD. Offloading all of the nasty decoding work to the hardware box frees up a lot of processing power hogged up by software-based solutions, making this unit a rather interesting device in the field of IPTV.

[Engadget - www.engadget.com.] Pace throws down IP215, an H.264 set-top box >: Pace Micro Technology is known moreso for their set-top box development moreso than their forays into PVP-land, and happily so for they’re putting out what looks like the world’s first H.264-based hardware set-top box, the IP215. You know H.264 — the codec to end all codecs, the one that Apple is betting will usher in the year of HD. Offloading all of the nasty decoding work to the hardware box frees up a lot of processing power hogged up by software-based solutions, making this unit a rather interesting device in the field of IPTV.

[Companynewsgroup.com] Press release : PACE MICRO TECHNOLOGY CompanynewsGroup: This set-top box is the first in a family of IPTV products we are set to launch this year to enable operators to take advantage of the opportunities available to them through triple play offerings." A full launch of the IP215, with CA and middleware integration, is expected at IBC 2005 in September this year

[Theponderingprimate.blogspot.com] The Pondering Primate: The competition between U.S. cable companies and telcos to dominate the digital pipeline into homes is driving carriers to roll out IPTV defensively to avoid losing customers to cable. The result is that U.S. carriers are making massive investments in an industry in which too many operators are fighting over too few customers.

[Ferrago.com] Pace Reveals First MPEG-4 HD Set Top Box - Ferrago News Portal: ... Pace Micro, Europe's biggest digital set-top box maker, sees its shares dive ... will debut the smallest IPTV (Internet Protocol television) set-top box ...

[Ferrago.com] Pace Reveals First MPEG-4 HD Set Top Box - Ferrago News Portal: feanor writes "Siemens is realeasing beginning of November the Gigaset M740 AV (German text). This is a DVB-T set-top-box that can access SMB shares either via ethernet or WLAN and store its MPEG2 compliant streams. Alternatively it can be used as an MPEG

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Posted at May 26, 2005 02:05 PM