Sun, Philips Push MPEG-4 Up Steep Hill

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 17, 2001 @08:02PM 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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Re:GOOD by Jage · 2001-09-17 22:39 · 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.