Stealth Imaging : What We Do

08.07.06
Stealth Imaging Unveils H.264 Super-fast Laptop Video Processing Card at Apple Developer Conference.
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H.264: Processing power for the age of standard and high definition video

Stealth Imaging's initial products, the Stealth™ PCI-Express Quad H.264 Encoder Card for desktop computers and the Stealth Dual ExpressCard Encoder for laptop computers, are among the first encoders to incorporate H.264 video technology, acknowledged throughout the video industry as the leading-edge standard for standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) video processing.

("Processing," in simple terms, is the ability to compress video into a digital format that can be seen on television sets or computers, sent efficiently across a network, or edited.)

Stealth Imaging chose the H.264 standard because it is the most advanced encoding formula available in today's video technology. Every Stealth encoder, whether it is our current SD card or our HDTV encoder, will feature this state of the art video standard.

Next-generation video production, phone companies competing in the video market, and even Sony's new PlayStation 3, are all moving to the H.264 standard. H.264 is expected to achieve much wider use as HD becomes the standard in video production.

Approved by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the H.264 codec builds on the Moving Pictures Experts Group or MPEG-4 format and is a licensee of the MPEG License Authority. The H.264 standard can compress nearly three times the amount of video in the same data "space" as the MPEG-2 format, currently the de facto standard for video production, yet retain the quality of an MPEG-2 recording.

Stealth Imaging is developing real time processing at a price point that will bring HD content into main stream non-commercial video production (i.e., law enforcement, independent film and content usage). HD produces the sharpest pictures available in video but demands intensive processing power. The typical HD "stream" contains as much as six times the information as a standard definition picture. Stealth Imaging video encoders are designed to handle this need.





	08.07.06 Stealth Imaging Unveils H.264 Super-fast Laptop Video Processing Card at Apple Developer Conference. Read More...		Home > What We Do H.264: Processing power for the age of standard and high definition video Stealth Imaging's initial products, the Stealth™ PCI-Express Quad H.264 Encoder Card for desktop computers and the Stealth Dual ExpressCard Encoder for laptop computers, are among the first encoders to incorporate H.264 video technology, acknowledged throughout the video industry as the leading-edge standard for standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) video processing. ("Processing," in simple terms, is the ability to compress video into a digital format that can be seen on television sets or computers, sent efficiently across a network, or edited.) Stealth Imaging chose the H.264 standard because it is the most advanced encoding formula available in today's video technology. Every Stealth encoder, whether it is our current SD card or our HDTV encoder, will feature this state of the art video standard. Next-generation video production, phone companies competing in the video market, and even Sony's new PlayStation 3, are all moving to the H.264 standard. H.264 is expected to achieve much wider use as HD becomes the standard in video production. Approved by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the H.264 codec builds on the Moving Pictures Experts Group or MPEG-4 format and is a licensee of the MPEG License Authority. The H.264 standard can compress nearly three times the amount of video in the same data "space" as the MPEG-2 format, currently the de facto standard for video production, yet retain the quality of an MPEG-2 recording. Stealth Imaging is developing real time processing at a price point that will bring HD content into main stream non-commercial video production (i.e., law enforcement, independent film and content usage). HD produces the sharpest pictures available in video but demands intensive processing power. The typical HD "stream" contains as much as six times the information as a standard definition picture. Stealth Imaging video encoders are designed to handle this need.

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