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23-10-6

BLUEFISH444 RAGE N|CODE HD SHIPPING

Bluefish444 today announced that the Bluefish444 RAGE N|CODE HD, an affordable high quality, real time encoding HD MPEG-2 video compression system for all high def video resolutions, is shipping. Introduced at IBC 2006 in Amsterdam last month, the response to RAGE N|CODE HD has been overwhelmingly positive.

20-10-6

Aspex Semiconductor release H.264 encoding accelerator

Aspex Semiconductor today announced the availability of Accelera AVE for HD H.264.   It accelerates the performance of PC-based software H.264 SD and HD video encoding for IPTV, HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, video-on-demand, corporate streaming and broadcast applications.

Accelera AVE boosts performance by 3x-4x for HD H.264 encoding and gives realtime performance for SD encoding, whilst still providing high quality, low bit rate output. (Realtime HD H.264 performance is available using two cards.)

The Aspex accelerator cards take the weight off the PC by performing the processor intensive functions found in encoding solutions. Together with MainConcept, Aspex have developed a H.264 encoding platform which takes advantage of the MainConcept H.264 software encoder found inside many leading third party encoding applications. It maintains the same user interface in the MainConcept encoder, therefore if you are a fan of Adobe Premiere Pro, Sorenson Squeeze, Digital Rapids StreamZ or BlueFish Symmetry to name but a few, it allows you to immediately benefit from a significant uplift in encoding performance without having to learn a new tool.

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19-10-6

Bluefish444 release 5.2.113 beta retail installer.

Includes the latest version of Symmetry 3.2 supporting real time HD/SD MPEG 2 encoding via RAGE N|Code, Adobe Production Studio with OPENHD certified plug-in version 5.2.1.40 (Premiere Pro 2.0, After Effects 7.0, Photoshop CS2 and Audition 2.0), Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1, After Effects 5-6.5, Photoshop 7-CS2.

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9-10-6

Aspex announces new low-cost H.264 and MPEG-2 video compression cards

18-9-6

Bluefish444 release 5.2.10 retail installer.

Includes the latest version of Symmetry 3.1.6 with a new project manager feature, Adobe Production Studio with plug-in version 5.2.1.40 (certified OPENHD, Premiere Pro 2.0, After Effects 7.0, Photoshop CS2 and Audition 2.0), Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1, After Effects 5-6.5, Photoshop 7-CS2. 3rd party applications supporting the 5.2.6.8 SDK.

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5-9-6

Aspex announces a world first:  Accelera Advanced Video Encoder (AVE)

6-7-6

Polar appointed as Aspex’s European distributor

18-2-5 Polar appointed as Huge Systems Western European Distributor
6-7-4

Huge Systems announce amazing performance of U320-RX array when used with Linux kernel 2.6.6  Throughput rates of over 460 MB/sec. possible.

15-3-4 Polar appointed as Huge Systems exclusive distributor for UK and Ireland
9-3-4

Digital Voodoo release new beta installers for FCP4 running on G5's or under Panther

7-10-3 Bluefish444 now compatible with Drastic Technologies
7-10-3 Bluefish444 adds uncompressed 10 bit RGB support to Wildblue AV and HD range
7-10-3 Bluefish444 announces support for Linux
7-10-3 Bluefish444 announces support for Premier Pro
7-10-3 Bluefish444 announces HD Lust with dual link HD input and output is now shipping
7-10-3 Bluefish444 release new feature control application
7-10-3 Bluefish444 release Symmetry Capture/Playback software

26-7-2

BBC use Digital Voodoo in StingRAY project