Comments on: Motorola HD News at NAB

By: Using Active Format Description - Output HD as SD « Media Experiences 2 Go

Using Active Format Description - Output HD as SD « Media Experiences 2 Go — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:15:37 +0000

[...] year at the NAB Show, Motorola announced support for Active Format Description (AFD) in its MPEG encoding products. So it seems appropriate that this year around NAB time I have an [...]

By: New Motorola Satellite Receiver - Saving Bandwidth in Video Processing « Media Experiences 2 Go

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:55:57 +0000

[...] The new Motorola DSR-6300 is an update to the DSR-6000 product line launched (very successfully) at the end of 2007. It can deliver content using either MPEG-4 AVC or MPEG-2 compression and transcodes content from MPEG-4 to MPEG-2 when necessary. Video compression using MPEG-4 reduces the amount of bandwidth needed for delivering HD content, but most deployed set-tops today aren’t MPEG-4 capable, hence the transcoding to MPEG-2. The shift to MPEG-4 in consumer homes is just starting to happen. The DSR-6300 can also simultaneously translate three HD programs from HD to SD using AFD for output to the right format. (See earlier blog post on AFD) [...]

By: Motorola Takes Fox All HD « Media Experiences 2 Go

Motorola Takes Fox All HD « Media Experiences 2 Go — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:13:59 +0000

[...] based on information embedded in the HD content. The embedded information will follow the Active Format Descriptor (AFD) standard, which was designed to help networks determine how best to convert and display HD signals on SD [...]

By: Five Big Changes in the Quality of Video Output « Media Experiences 2 Go

Five Big Changes in the Quality of Video Output « Media Experiences 2 Go — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:39:59 +0000

[...] are coming out that help manage the complexities of mixed environments. For example, the AFD extension to the MPEG standard means HD video can be coded scene by scene for best viewing on an SD set. Another example – new [...]