TDVision Selects Magnum Semiconductor

TDVision Systems announced it has selected Magnum Semiconductor for the development of the world's first and only Full HD stereoscopic 3D (1920x1080 per-eye) real-time encoder. The groundbreaking system applies TDVision's "Encode Once, Deploy Everywhere" methodology to HD stereoscopic 3D digital video streams, resulting in an H.264 3D-Ready video format that can be deployed on Blu-Ray disc and broadcast platforms, such as Cable, Satellite and IPTV, and for studio dailies as well as live-event streaming to cinemas.

The system uses TDVision's patented 2D+Delta TDVCodec technology to compress the video streams at full resolution while maintaining backward compatibility with all existing 2D displays in 2D HD, as well as forward compatibility with all existing and future 3D-ready displays and methods. The system does comparison between left and right source frames, compresses the video information based on redundancies between the two, resulting in stereoscopic compression at less than 200% of a 2D video stream. TDVision's 2D+Delta TDVCodec is referenced by ISO, JVT and MPEG as a core patent for future stereoscopic 3D video standards.

To achieve practical bit rates, without compromising quality and resolution, TDVision has selected Magnum Semiconductor, leader in professional-grade video processors to provide real-time compression and decompression for stereoscopic video streams. Magnum's DXTPro family of advanced multi-core media processors supports multiple video standards, such as MPEG-2, H.264 and VC-1, at full frame-rate 1080p60 encoding, decoding and transcoding. The DXTPro provides a single platform for all segments of the broadcast chain, from contribution to production to distribution. Its scalable and flexible multi-core architecture delivers highest channel-density, highest quality and lowest bit rates.

Source: Examiner