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FOR RELEASE ON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7,
2007
SAN JOSE, CA – Kulabyte™,
a leading provider of advanced audio and
video processing technologies, today
announced that it will be launching a
revolutionary real time series of
broadcast appliances,
Express GreenStream the
industry’s first VP6 and H.264 live
video encoding appliance for full SD and
soon, HD resolutions. This new solution
uses Kulabyte’s patent-pending TimeSlice™
video encoding technology to deliver 2
pass VBR qualities in live encoding and
streaming environments in a lightweight,
˝ half- width, 1RU box with solid state
storage and low power multi-core CPU’s.
Express GreenStream uses
only 50 watts of power at peak load.
The company made the announcement today
at the Streaming Media West Conference
in San Jose, California. Kulabyte will
be showing the
Express GreenStream
prototype and demonstrating its live
streaming and transcoding solutions at
the SMW exhibition, in Booth # 625.
The Kulabyte Express encoding solutions
enable faster-than-real-time video
encoding, providing noticeably better
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 as fast as the industry-standard
codecs alone, and deliver higher picture
qualities in live streaming
applications.
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 engagements previously
with leading microprocessor company AMD,
as well as On2 Technologies, Adobe and
BlueFish 444.
“Express
GreenStream is a turnkey
targeted solution that allows users the
to simultaneously stream and archive
live streams to the network via
dual-gigabit NIC’s. It is designed to
meet the needs of live event
productions, sports and event web
casters, newsgathering stations and
security surveillance providers,” said
Chris Gottschalk, co-founder and CTO for
Kulabyte. “The Kulabyte Express products
remove the encoding time bottleneck,
whether the application is encoding to
file or live streaming for Internet, or
mobile networks.”
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.
