STMicroelectronics STB Chips Support New Security Technologies

STMicroelectronics announced that it is sampling Set-Top Box (STB) decoder chips that support the latest security and content protection technologies, including the NDS VideoGuard Security Kernel and DVB-CSA3 descrambler system.

TMPG Offers Accelcoder for Blu-ray 3D Production

TMPG Inc. announced that it now distributes Accelcoder from Fixstars Solutions. According to the statement, Accelcoder is a real time, professional H.264/MPEG-4 AVC/MVC encoding system for Blu-ray Disc (BD), Blu-ray 3D, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and Video-On-Demand (VOD) production.