Canopus Corporation and DivXNetworks Announce Details of Licensing Agreement.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2003 Canopus Corporation Canopus Corporation is a manufacturer of video editing cards and video editing software. Their competitors include Matrox and Pinnacle Systems. When 3dfx's Voodoo series of PC-gaming-oriented 3D graphics cards became popular in the mid-1990s, Canopus was well-known for and DivXNetworks, Inc. today provided more information regarding the licensing agreement announced by the companies last week. Under terms of the agreement, Canopus will include DivX(R) Pro, the professional version of the popular DivX video technology, in its Canopus MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. (TM) line of personal recording solutions sold in Japan. In addition, future versions of Canopus's highly acclaimed professional video transcoding Video transcoding is the process of re-purposing video into different formats and viewing media. The original data is decoded or decompressed to a raw intermediate format in a way that mimics the standard playback of the original codec and then recodes this into the target format. software tool, ProCoder(TM), will support DivX Pro. "Canopus is well known as a global leader in high-end video software and hardware, and we are pleased that they have chosen to support DivX Pro in upcoming versions of ProCoder and integrate it into their MTV product line," said Jordan Greenhall, Founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of DivXNetworks. "The combination of the industry-leading products from Canopus with the unsurpassed visual quality and compression of DivX Pro will provide video professionals and enthusiasts with an ideal set of cutting-edge video tools." "The addition of DivX Pro significantly enhances the capability of our products. We are pleased to include the DivX codec (1) (enCOder/DECoder) A hardware circuit that performs analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) conversion. When analog signals are entered into a computer, cellphone or other device via a microphone or video source such as VHS tape or analog TV, in our personal recording solutions and support it in our popular transcoding tool," said Hiro Yamada CEO of Canopus. "With its high visual quality, excellent compression ratio compression ratio Degree to which the fuel mixture in an internal-combustion engine is compressed before ignition. It is defined as the volume of the combustion chamber with the piston farthest out divided by the volume with the piston in the full-compression position ( and strong global brand, DivX is one of the most advanced MPEG-4 technologies and offers our customers another video format output option." For more information on the DivX Software Licensing program, write to licensing@divxnetworks.com. To learn more about Canopus products, visit www.canopus.com. About DivXNetworks DivXNetworks is a consumer-focused video technology company positioned at the center of multimedia convergence. The company's core offering is the DivX(R) video codec, the world's most popular MPEG-4 compatible video compression technology with over 85 million users worldwide. Often called "the MP3 of video," the patent-pending DivX video technology offers DVD-quality at 10 times greater compression than MPEG-2 files, enabling full length films to easily fit on a CD or be delivered over broadband connections. DivX video technology powers a range of applications that span the convergence value chain, from a secure IP-based video-on-demand solution to next-generation consumer electronics products and video software applications. DivXNetworks is headquartered in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. , with a satellite office in Los Angeles. For more information, visit http://www.divxnetworks.com. About Canopus Corporation Based in San Jose, Calif., Canopus Corporation designs and markets award-winning, nonlinear video editing Editing video in the computer. Also called "nonlinear editing" (NLE), digital nonlinear systems provide high-quality post-production editing on a desktop computer. However, some detail may be lost if lossy compression is used to store the images (see lossy compression). products for video professionals and enthusiasts. Canopus's DV editing, MPEG encoding, 3D DVE See digital video effects. and video transcoding products combine innovative hardware and software designs to set new standards in performance, functionality and reliability. Canopus Corporation's parent company, Canopus Co., Ltd., with headquarters in Kobe, is Japan's largest maker of video editing and graphics products. The company has offices in the UK, Germany, Australia, Italy and China in addition to an extensive worldwide distributor network. For more information contact Canopus at (408) 954-4500 or visit their Web site at www.canopus.com. Canopus is a registered trademark and ProCoder and MTV are trademarks of Canopus Co., Ltd. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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