HaiVision's TASMAN Powers Video Distribution at WCIT2008

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Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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Your Editor and Administrator - L II
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(PRWEB) May 21, 2008 --HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the world's leading vendor of performance H.264 network video codecs, today announces that at The World Conference of Information Technology (WCIT) this week in Malaysia keynote events are being broadcast throughout the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre using HaiVision's TASMAN Streamer H.264 high performance video encoder. The WCIT is a premier global ICT forum that brings together global leaders in business, government and academia, this year featuring top ICT executives including Bill Gates (Chairman Microsoft) and Dr. Craig Barrett (Chairman Intel).

The TASMAN systems are encoding the live audio video from main auditorium of the conference centre and distributing the low latency live feed of the main conference sessions to over 125 displays within common areas, VIP rooms and lounges, and the press areas within KLCC. The H.264 stream is multicast within the facility to 40 Amino AmiNET125 set top boxes driving the displays.

"We are very impressed with the video quality and low latency of the HaiVision TASMAN system," expresses Richard Soo, IT Manager for the KLCC. "Our main integrator, NETe2 Asia, has provided to us excellent assistance and support in deploying this video over IP distribution system. They helped configure our network specifically to handle the multicast video."

HaiVision's TASMAN delivers H.264 encoding of full resolution full frame rate video at up to 2 Mbps and with less than 200 milliseconds of end to end latency. HaiVision products, including the new MAKO-HD high definition encoder for up to 1080p resolution, are compatible with Amino's AmiNET family of low cost set top box decoders.

For more information on the TASMAN and HaiVision's entire line of H.264 encoder and decoder systems, please visit HaiVision's download center at http://www.haivision.com/account/downloads/.

About HaiVision Systems Inc.:

Based in Montreal, Canada, HaiVision Systems Inc. is a private company and a world leader in delivering the most advanced video networking technology. HaiVision's products are deployed worldwide within the foremost telepresence suites and boardrooms, in healthcare facilities for video collaboration and training, for continuous presence distance education and remote learning, and within broadcast for remote interviews, IPTV, and content distribution.

For further information, please contact:

Peter Maag                

HaiVision Systems Inc.    

Tel: (514) 334-5445            

Email: pmaag (at) haivision.com

Web: www.haivision.com

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