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Sun, Philips Push MPEG-4 Up Steep Hill

Posted by Hemos on from the push-push dept.

Kellym writes: "Sun Microsystems and Philips Digital Networks are putting their chips on MPEG-4 in the battle to determine the streaming media standard of the future. The companies have agreed to expand their year-long relationship to promote and develop MPEG-4 technology for broadband and wireless markets. The companies have partnered on marketing and have agreed to share technologies. In the most recent deal, Philips licensed Sun's StorEdge Media Central server technology. Philips said it will include the technology in a WebCine Server MPEG-4 system it is developing to run on Sun's Solaris Operating Environment and Sun Cobalt servers."

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  1. Re:What happens to QuickTime? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think we can count Apple out. Frankly, Apple's days of innovation are a forgotten memory. My brother works at Apple and he said that morale is very low there; Apple is slowly dying anyway. One of his co-workers hinted that the real reason why they canceled the expo is because they had distributed only a handful of visitor passes and very few vendors were willing to pay for booth space in these tough economic times, given Apple's limited market share - and several had pulled out at the last minute. With PC manufacturer ~

  2. Re:GOOD by Jage · · Score: 1, Troll
    Auto upgradeable? Excuse me, do you have a method to auto update hardware now? If I'm not totally misguided, I understand for example cell phones will have hardware decoder.

    A specific MPEG4 implementation might be auto-upgradeable, but only to the extent *any* other application/codec. For example, such as GIF, FLI, IFF/ANIM, Cinepac or Sorenson.