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Envivio, the leading provider of live and on-demand multi-screen video processing solutions, announced today it has added support for the new Windows Phone 7 operating system to its multi-screen video head ends based on the 4Caster™ C4 family of encoder/transcoders. The enhancement will maximize video quality by using the industry’s highest quality H.264 compression—Envivio Extreme™ encoding—and provide support for the advanced playback and content protection features Telco operators and over the top service providers need to offer premium video services.

“The combination of the Envivio Three Screens video processing platform and Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming has proven itself a winner for deployments around the world,” said Envivio vice president of marketing Boris Felts. “Providing support for Windows Phone 7 is a natural extension of the work we have already done with Microsoft and furthers Envivio’s commitment to enabling the best video services for the latest generation of smartphones.”
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Envivio, the leading provider of live and on-demand multi-screen video processing solutions, announced today that a new firmware upgrade for its 4Caster C4 family of Three Screen video encoders brings to market the world’s first unified, broadcast-quality, video processing platform with built-in support for all leading IPTV, Mobile and Internet TV video formats. The new 4Caster 2.3 release will be on display for the first time at IBC 2010 in Stand 1.D72.

With the new 4Caster C4 offering, service providers can reduce the complexity and cost of their video headends by using a single encoder to handle all of the pre-processing of a source and then output concurrent, high quality, optimized streams to support any device in their network. Content and TV channel providers can deploy a single encoder to prepare a channel or content stream for simultaneous distribution to multiple service providers and a variety of delivery platforms. In both cases, the upgrade significantly reduces the need for multiple, parallel silos of equipment.

“Everyone is talking about the new multi-screen world, but video headend providers are still offering old-style, single-purpose headends for video processing,” said Boris Felts, VP of marketing, Envivio. “With our latest generation 4Caster C4 firmware, Envivio dramatically simplifies planning and development for service providers, broadcasters, and content owners. Not only can they repurpose 4Caster C4 systems for other screens―a feature Envivio has offered for years―but each encoder can support multiple screens and adapt to changing services. Regardless of configuration, each screen receives the full benefit of Envivio’s proven and patented industry-leading technologies for maximizing video quality.”

The new 4Caster C4 firmware provides key enhancements that simplify deployment of Over the Top video services, including a native publishing interface for leading content delivery networks such as Akamai, Level 3 and Limelight, as well as integrated content protection via Playready and HLS encryption with built-in key interfaces for major DRM platforms. Envivio has extended the system’s unmatched picture quality with added support for 1080p resolution video for Flash, PIFF and Apple HTTP Live Streaming. Support for alternative audio streams, subtitles, closed captioning and significantly reduced end to end transmission delay as compared to the live event extend the appeal of Over the Top video services by creating a sophisticated experience comparable to DVD and advanced digital services. In stream ad insertion creates new opportunities for revenue development.

All screens benefit from a new generation of video pre-processing tools that improve the quality of source signals and ensure that content is optimized before compression begins. Furthermore, Envivio’s new release of its proprietary Extreme encoding technology increases the efficiency and quality of the compression codec, yielding measurable results including a ten percent compression improvement for mobile services.

A new array of video cross-conversion upscaling algorithms uses proprietary Envivio technology to eliminate the need for additional stand-alone hardware. Based on an advanced combination of field structure analysis, motion-adaptive deinterlacing and polyphase resizing filters, the video quality achieved through these Envivio-exclusive enhancements rivals the most expensive SD to HD cross-converters.

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Mobile Operators and Content Owners Can Attract iPhone Subscribers with Stunning 3G and Wi-Fi Video plus Feature Rich Interactivity

South San Francisco, CA – June 08, 2009 – Envivio Inc., today announced iLiveTV™ – the complete mobile video encoding and distribution solution for evaluating, developing and deploying Live and On Demand TV video services for the iPhone. Taking full advantage of the new iPhone OS 3.0 mobile video format announced today by Apple at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), iLiveTV delivers everything mobile operators and content owners need to deliver TV to iPhone users. iLiveTV includes the Envivio 4Caster™ C4 world-class video encoding platform, content delivery server software, a web-based Cover Flow iPhone navigation portal, as well as integration and support from the world’s most experienced team of mobile TV deployment experts.

iLiveTV is available immediately. A private demonstration is available for the iPhone from www.envivio.com/solutions/ilivetv.php .

“iLiveTV is the complete solution for mobile operators and content owners ready to take advantage of the opportunity created by Apple’s new game-changing video format for the iPhone,” said Julien Signès, Envivio’s CEO. “The iPhone is redefining mobile Entertainment. Combining the new iPhone OS 3.0 with Envivio leading technology and products provides the end user with an unmatched online mobile video service experience.”

iLiveTV enables operators to offer iPhone users multiple channels of live broadcast TV over 3G and Wi-Fi networks with home theater quality and premium features such as Catch-up TV, Video on Demand and a client channel guide. iLiveTV supports all of the advanced capabilities of the new mobile video format in Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 to dynamically adapt to available bandwidth, optimize full screen video playback and increase battery life.

iLiveTV is optimized for the native iPhone 3.0 video player and requires no additional software be installed on the end user’s iPhone. A rich, customizable web interface featuring Cover Flow navigation offers users the smooth and elegant channel zapping experience they expect from their iPhone.

Video encoding is powered by the award-winning Envivio 4Caster C4 used around the world to provide service to millions of IPTV, Internet TV and Mobile TV subscribers. The 4Caster C4 is a fully upgradeable system that can support almost any network and any client device.

The system ingests analog or digital sources and simultaneously encodes and protects the content for delivery at multiple bitrates using Envivio H.264 Extreme Compression™, recognized as the industry’s highest quality mobile video codec. This multi-profile encoding ensures consistent, automatic and seamless delivery of the best picture quality by adapting automatically to fluctuations in network bandwidth for an exceptional viewing experience on the iPhone. iLiveTV also includes all of the necessary software components to deliver protected video from a standard web server.

Envivio Chief Scientist Yuval Fisher will be at WWDC demonstrating the capabilities of iLiveTV. In addition, Envivio will demonstrate iLiveTV at CommunicAsia 2009 in Singapore, June 16-19 in the Hall 3 French Pavilion. More information about iLiveTV and demonstrations are available at www.envivio.com

4Caster M2 Encoders Enable Harris and LG Electronics to Present Live Showcase of Proposed IP-based Delivery Platform 

South San Francisco, CA – April 14, 2008 – Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, today announced that its 4Caster M2 mobile TV encoders are being used in a live demonstration at NAB 2008 of the MPH™ (Mobile-Pedestrian Handheld) in-band mobile DTV system. This demonstration leverages the capability of Envivio Mobile Series encoders to deliver high-quality, advanced, in-band TV services to a range of consumer handheld and mobile devices.

The MPH partners, Harris Corporation, LG Electronics and Zenith, will demonstrate the capabilities of their IP-based delivery system in an over-the-air (OTA) MPH mobile DTV broadcast by KVCW-DT, a Sinclair Broadcasting Group-owned station serving the Las Vegas market. IP-based delivery will also be demonstrated on a closed circuit broadcast originating from the Harris Booth (N2502) in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center at the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention from April 14-17.

For the demonstration Envivio has provided versions of its 4Caster M2 encoders which support the requirements of the MPH system. As the world’s leading supplier of encoding solutions for mobile TV, Envivio encoding systems already power hundreds of mobile TV encoder deployments worldwide. The flexible design of Envivio’s 4Caster M2 enables the company to rapidly accommodate evolving mobile TV requirements such as MPH within its existing 4Caster M2 product.

The IP-based delivery system takes the high-quality encoded content provided by the 4Caster M2 and uses a new station-side platform developed jointly by Triveni Digital and UDcast to enable IP encapsulation within the legacy MPEG-2 transport stream. This system meets the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) requirements for a new technology called ATSC-M/H, which will enable the delivery of in-band television content and data to mobile and handheld devices via DTV broadcast signals.

The MPH demonstration relies on high-quality audio and video delivered at very efficient data rates to reliably deliver multiple channels of content and interactive services to devices that are on the move. With its inherent flexibility and power to output multiple device profiles simultaneously, the 4Caster M2 delivers an optimum mobile TV viewing experience to any mobile device via any transmission infrastructure.

More information about MPH can be found at:
www.broadcast.harris.com/products/tvtransmission/mobile.asp

For more information about the 4Caster M2 encoder and Envivio’s full range of solutions for the Three Screens of consumer video – TV, PC and mobile – visit the Envivio booth SU13205 during NAB or www.envivio.com anytime.

About Envivio Inc.
Envivio Inc. is the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions for telcos and broadcasters. Envivio is the only company to offer convergence solutions supporting the “Three Screens” of consumer video – TVs, PCs and mobile phones – making IP video a reality over any type of network and to any multimedia device from mobile to HD. Envivio solutions deliver industry leading AVC (H.264), AVS, and Windows Media Video (VC-1) compressed video quality at the lowest bit rate for mobile TV, Internet TV, IPTV, and broadcast applications. Service providers worldwide use Envivio solutions to reduce their operational costs while offering subscribers the most compelling and highest quality video services anytime and anywhere. Visit www.envivio.com fo

4Caster M2 Encoders Enable Delivery of Multiple Live Channels and Interactivity to a Wide Variety of Mobile Devices

South San Francisco, CA – April 14, 2008 – Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, today announced that its 4Caster M2 mobile TV encoders are being used in the live demonstration at NAB 2008 of the A-VSB Initiative’s proposed technology solution for ATSC-M/H based mobile broadcast television services. Announced yesterday by the A-VSB Initiative, which includes Samsung, Rohde & Schwarz, MobiTV, SES-Americom and Nokia Siemens Networks, the demonstration uses Envivio mobile TV encoders that enable efficient delivery of high quality advanced mobile broadcast TV services to a broad range of mobile devices including mobile phones, portable media players (PMP) and ultra mobile PCs (UMPC).

The A-VSB Initiative demonstration showcases a mobile TV broadcast from a local TV station. It includes live simulcasts of a local TV channel and a national channel distributed over the station’s existing DTV transmission infrastructure. In addition, two interactive channels of content encoded using Envivio systems are being distributed to enable the A-VSB Initiative to illustrate user interactivity and electronic program guide (EPG) functionality. The A-VSB Initiative demonstration can be viewed at its booth (Hall C, Booth 1539) and also on the move via a bus tour.

As the world’s leading supplier of encoding solutions for mobile TV, Envivio products power hundreds of mobile TV deployments worldwide. The A-VSB Initiative’s mobile broadcast TV demonstration required an encoding solution that could deliver high quality video and audio at less than 500 kbps to a broad range of devices. Envivio was able to optimize the parameters within the 4Caster M2 encoder to ensure a high quality experience on all the devices simultaneously.

The flexible design of Envivio’s encoding architecture enables the company to accommodate evolving mobile TV requirements, such as A-VSB, quickly and easily within its existing, widely deployed 4Caster M2 product. With its built-in support for multi-profile encoding, and advanced statistical and network aware rate controls, the 4Caster M2 delivers the optimum mobile TV viewing experience to any mobile device via any transmission infrastructure.

A-VSB Initiative www.avsbinitiative.com
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Envivio shortlisted for two IPTV world series awards for best IPTV and mobile TVtechnologies Nominated Solutions on Display at IPTV World Forum in London

South San Francisco, CA – March 5, 2008 – Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, today announced that it has been shortlisted for two prestigious IPTV World Series Best Technology Awards for its mobile TV and IPTV products. Envivio will display its solutions for the Three Screens of consumer video, based around the shortlisted 4Caster M2 and 4Caster C4 encoders, at the IPTV World Forum at Olympia, London from March 12 – 14, 2008. Solutions for mobile TV, Internet TV and IPTV will be demonstrated on Stand 183.

The Envivio 4Caster M2 mobile TV encoder has been shortlisted in the Best Mobile TV Technology category. Equipped to support both mobile broadcast and mobile streaming applications, the M2 encoder is currently powering over 50 DVB-H trials and deployments around the world, as well as numerous Tier 1 3GPP services such as Orange World TV in France. In recognition of the important role this product is playing in enabling the global roll out high quality mobile TV services, it has already received best technology awards from Cable and Wireless International (2007) and Frost & Sullivan (2006).

The Envivio 4Caster C4 multi-profile encoder has been shortlisted in the Best IPTV Headend and Video Processing Technology category. Currently targeting both IPTV and Internet TV with additional applications to be included shortly, the innovative C4 is a high-availability hardware platform with an embedded software encoding core. This unique compression architecture offers levels of service flexibility and encoding performance upgradeability not possible with traditional hardware-only encoding platforms. Encoding performance can be upgraded with each software release without the need to buy and install new hardware, and new services and features can be added in the same way.

4Caster M2
4Caster M2 supports all of the advanced encoding features required to enable truly stunning video delivery for both mobile broadcast and mobile streaming applications. Powering the majority of deployments and trials around the world, M2 supports key DVB-H features such as statistical rate control and ISMA encryption. Delivering up to eight output profiles per channel, and supporting advanced features such as network aware rate control and bit stream switching, M2 can deliver the very highest quality of experience to end users on 3G mobile TV networks.

4Caster C4
4Caster C4 is the multi-service compression engine at the heart of Envivio’s Convergence Generation All-IP video headend. The 4Caster C4 currently supports multiple channels of standard definition encoding for IPTV, with optional support for Picture in Picture, and Internet TV encoding up to VGA resolution. For IPTV applications, C4 can be delivered in either Premium Compression or Extreme Compression encoding configurations using Envivio’s new flexible encoding core. For Internet TV applications, C4 can deliver content for playback in Windows Media Player, QuickTime and VLC.

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