Tandberg - Now a unit of Ericsson, Tandberg Television enables video transcoding at IPTV headend. The company announced its iPlex transcoding solution [1] at TelcoTV 2007, and demonstrated transcoding [2] at IBC 2008 in September.
Texas Instruments - The chip giant has been a major early supporter of video transcoding technology with its DaVinci chip [3], which provides real-time transcoding capability on a single chip.
thePlatform - Owned by Comcast Interactive Media, this company [4] offers transcoding, among other solutions. It's customers include Comcast (no surprise) and Verizon.
ViewCast - ViewCast [5] just announced a new eight-channel system for network operators, governments and other large clients that transcodes to multiple video formats.
For more:
- read this blog post [6] by Dan Rayburn of StreamingMedia.com and Frost & Sullivan
Links:
[1] http://telephonyonline.com/iptv/technology/tandberg_telcotv_transcoder_102507/index.html
[2] http://www.fierceiptv.com/story/ibc2008-set-start-amsterdam/2008-09-08?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&cmp-id=OTC-RSS-FI0
[3] http://focus.ti.com/pr/docs/preldetail.tsp?sectionId=594&prelId=sc07173
[4] http://www.theplatform.com/corp/about/
[5] http://www.viewcast.com/press_releases/pr_niagara8224.pdf
[6] http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2008/09/market-overview.html
[7] http://www.fierceiptv.com/special-reports/video-transcoding-companies-watch-0
[8] http://www.fierceiptv.com/special-reports/fierceiptv-special-report-video-transcoding