Motorola (NYSE:MOT) today announced it will add multiple high-definition (HD) MPEG-4 AVC encoding channels at the HBO Latin America Group (LAG) digital transmission facility located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The new channels will integrate with HBO-LAG’s existing Motorola MPEG-2 modular system to facilitate the rapid deployment of HBO’s new HD services.

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Harmonic Inc. today announced support for high definition (HD) 1080p encoding at 24 frames per second (fps) on its market-leading MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoder, the DiviCom® Electra™ 7000.

QUALCOMM Incorporated, a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA ) and other advanced wireless technologies, announced that a federal judge in San Diego has ruled that QUALCOMM waived its rights to enforce certain patents related to the H.264 video compression standard used in some high definition products. The court held that QUALCOMM had deliberately concealed U.S.

Samsung Electronics Co., LTD., a leader in consumer electronics and digital media technologies, and the first company to introduce a Blu-ray disc player will introduce a dual format High-Definition (HD) optical disc player in time for the holidays.