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June, 2007
FOR RELEASE ON: TUESDAY, APRIL 17,
2007
LAS
VEGAS, NV
– Kulabyte™,
a leading provider of advanced audio
and video processing technologies,
today announced that it will be
shipping the industry’s fastest
video encoding solution, Kulabyte
Professional Flash Encoding Suite,
on April 20th. The
company made the announcement today
at the National Association of
Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas. The Kulabyte
Professional encoding solutions
enable faster-than-real-time video
encoding, enabling noticeably
improved picture quality and
significant bandwidth savings, while
utilizing industry standard codec
engines.
Media creators can encode, and
distribute digital content at speeds
more than 12 times faster than
industry-standard codec times and
deliver higher picture qualities.
A
three-year old start-up company,
Kulabyte is developing its
patent-pending TimeSlice™ video
encoding technology for a wide
variety of applications. The
company has introduced early
versions of the technology at
previous NAB and IBC industry
conferences, as well as at other
industry trade shows. The company
has announced agreements recently
with leading microprocessor company
AMD, as well as leading video
encoding firm On2 Technologies.
“We are entering the
second generation of digital video
encoding, and today’s producers
require fast, interoperable,
efficient solutions for encoding
that run on any codec, hardware, and
network,” said Chris Gottschalk,
president and chief technology
officer for Kulabyte. “The Kulabyte
Professional Encoding Suite removes
the bottleneck of encoding time,
whether the application is encoding
for DVD, broadcast, cable,
satellite, Internet, or mobile
networks.”
Kulabyte offers its’ exclusive Live
2- pass variable bit rate (VBR)
encoding as well as in on-demand
broadcasting, which enables media
companies to realize superior
picture quality, faster 1 pass and
2-pass encoding speeds and optimized
bandwidth utilization. Retail
pricing for Kulabyte’s Professional
Flash Encoding suite, packaged
turnkey with the On2 VP6 codec
engine starts at $8,000.00.
The
Kulabyte Professional Encoding Suite
will be unveiled at NAB in
Las Vegas, April 16-19,
at the Kulabyte booth #SL13713, in
the lower level of the South Hall of
the
Las Vegas
Convention Center.
“I could not believe how easy the
product was to install and operate.
It ran on hardware I didn’t think
could work, processing compressed
and uncompressed video as it buried
all of the processors. I‘m
completely impressed with Kulabyte’s
fast performance, quality and ease
of operation; and look forward to
implementing it into our solutions,”
said Wally Dragich, president of
Mississauga, Ontario-based digital
video and animation hardware and
software solutions provider IC
Technology.
“The current model of encoding,
streaming, and transferring any
media is a time-intensive process
involving many hours of research,
quality checking, and data
crunching. Kulabyte’s technology
represents an exciting new approach
to the process that is certain to
save us money in terms of both
machine time and bandwidth
requirements,” said Seth Bennett,
technical director with San
Francisco-based film and video
post-production firm Rough House.
About Kulabyte
Kulabyte LLC. is a leading developer
of advanced video processing
technologies. Based in San Marcos,
Texas, Kula Media Group’s
engineering and management team is
focused on delivering the fastest
video encoding solution in the
industry, while also achieving the
highest video quality available. For
further information, please visit
the company Web site at
www.kulabyte.com.
