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ATEME breakthroughs in video compression

2004 - First massive deployment of an MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 software encoder

ATEME developed its first AVC/H.264 software codec in 2003 and obtained the best ranking in several public comparative trials.

2006 - First sub 6Mbps HD broadcast using High profile AVC/H.264 video encoding

The 2006 French open tennis tournament was for ATEME an important landmark: A major live event was distributed over IP to millions of Free Telecom subscribers in High Definition for the first time.

2007 - First AVC/H.264 SuperHivision encoding system

ATEME participated in the Japanese SuperHiVision program by providing the first AVC/H.264 encoding system.

2008 – First professional file transcoder offering a compliant 2-pass VBR mode

With the availability of KFE 2.0 in 2008, ATEME introduced for the first time a professional 2-pass VBR mode that takes advantage of the content complexity variation to allocate bit-rate only when needed.

2009 - First 4:2:2 10-bit AVC/H.264 encoder and decoder pair

First 4:2:2 10-bit AVC/H.264 encoder and decoder pair.

2010 - First Full-HD 3D contribution link

ATEME enabled the transmission of a full-HD stereoscopic 3D signal during the semi-final event of the “French-idol” in May 2010.

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