HaiVision's Brings MAKO-HD 1080i Encoding to InterBEE for Collaborative Broadcast Contribution

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Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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(PRWEB) November 26, 2007 -- HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the world leader in performance video encoding technology, today announces at the International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition (i.e. Inter BEE) in Tokyo (Nov. 14-17) the support of high definition 1080i within HaiVision's MAKO-HD encoder/decoder technology. The MAKO-HD is a very high performance solution for encoding and decoding H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC network video achieving end to end latency as low as 70 milliseconds. The MAKO-HD, initially supporting 1080p and 720p is now capable of supporting full motion, full frame rate (25 or 30 fps) high definition 1080i through a simple firmware upgrade.

The broadcast industry is driving toward terrestrial networks for contribution which are now significantly cheaper then satellite, especially due to the efficiency and quality of H.264. Further, as terrestrial networks have native bi-directional bandwidth, broadcasters are adopting telepresence technology for Live Collaborative News Contribution. With products like HaiVision's MAKO-HD and the resulting massive reduction in latency, interviews and discussions can become more compelling and without the need to train talent in handling satellite delays.

The MAKO-HD is available for the hai1000 multi-stream multi-format encode/decode system supporting up to 5 MAKO-HD cards and concentrating the IP communications over a single IP port.

"The MAKO is changing the way people communicate," states Peter Maag, HaiVision Vice President, "enabling video collaboration of the highest caliber for executive conferencing / telepresence systems, within the medical market, and certainly within the broadcast sector. As broadcasters are under pressure to generate more believable content in more affordable ways, they are looking towards IP based bi-directional contribution systems."

HaiVision has included the support of 1080i within its base level MAKO-HD product offering at no additional charge to its clients. The support of 1080i is enabled through a simple firmware upgrade.

About HaiVision Systems Inc.

HaiVision Systems Inc. is a private company dedicated to improving the way people live and work through the use of advanced network video technology. HaiVision's interactive products are used in the foremost telepresence suites, boardrooms, and continuous presence distance education systems worldwide. They are used as well in the medical field supporting information and service delivery within hospital campuses and across nations. HaiVision's streaming products are also used extensively for video backhaul and distribution in broadcast and IPTV applications. Please have a look at the product information, case studies, videos, and file samples available in the file download area of our web site (www.haivision.com/account/downloads).

For further information, please contact:

Peter Maag                

HaiVision Systems Inc.    

Tel: (514) 334-5445            

Email: pmaag (at) haivision.com

Web: www.haivision.com

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