VP6 Enables High-Quality Video
Playback on Portable Wi-Fi
Devices;
Adobe Flash Lite 3 Application
Provides On-the-Go Web Content
Access
Tarrytown,
NY
(Tuesday, February 19th
2008)
–
On2 Technologies, Inc.,
(AMEX:ONT),
a leader in video compression
solutions, today announced that
it has licensed its optimized
TrueMotion® VP6™ video decoder
software to Sony® for use in its
mylo™ communicator “COM-2”
device.
The COM-2 uses On2’s TrueMotion
VP6 decoder with Adobe® Flash®
Lite 3 software, and provides
access to videos posted on
Flash-based web sites. When
connected to a wi-fi hotspot,
the mylo communicator can also
upload and download content to
and from the Web using the touch
screen interface on its 3.5-inch
high-resolution display. By
integrating an optimized version
of On2’s VP6 decoder, the mylo
communicator users have the
ability to enjoy web based video
content, while on-the-go.
“We continue to improve the
quality of our video solutions
for leading handheld device
manufacturers, and the mylo
communicator is one of the best
examples of mobile video
products on the market today,”
said Bill Joll, president and
CEO of On2 Technologies.
“Most of the leading
user-generated content web sites
today use our Flix Engine
product and VP6 compression
scheme to create and publish
video, and we see the market
trends moving toward mobile
video sharing and consumption.”
Flix Engine is a leading server
side encoding platform used by a
large number of Web 2.0 websites
and leading enterprises for
creating and publishing Flash
video.
For more information about
licensing On2 VP6 for Flash Lite
3, visit www.on2.com or write to
sales@on2.com.
About On2
On2 Technologies (AMEX: ONT)
ensures a compelling video
experience for any video
application anywhere. From low
bit rate to high definition, On2
provides optimized video
compression technology enabling
innovative solutions for
application developers, content
and service providers, chip
vendors, device manufacturers,
digital signage companies and
beyond.
Through continual innovation,
On2 satisfies the toughest
quality, bandwidth, and power
requirements for video. The
company's proprietary (TrueMotion®
VP6™, VP7™) and standards based
(MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264,
VC-1) codecs dominate the video
market, with more than 1 billion
deployments on desktops
worldwide and more than 200+
million in mobile; they are also
proven in silicon with over 25
semiconductor manufacturers
globally.
Established in 1992 and
headquartered in
Tarrytown, New York, On2 has offices and partners in
Finland, Germany, UK, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea and India.
Customers include Nokia,
Samsung, Freescale, AMS, Atmel,
Adobe/Macromedia, AOL, Sony,
Skype, Facebook, VideoEgg,
Brightcove, Move Networks and XM
Satellite Radio. For more
information please visit
www.on2.com.
Trademarks mentioned in this
release are the property of
their respective owners.
