ATEME to add AC-3 pass-through to its MPEG-4 AVC Professional Software encoder

Paris, France -- January 24th, 2007 -- ATEME, a leading provider of MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 live encoders and storage encoders, adds Dolby Digital AC-3 pass-through to its integrated MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Professional Software Encoder. AC-3 Stereo or 5.1 multichannel audio is hence associated to best-in-class video quality, to deliver the best consumer experience.

ATEME’s MPEG-4 AVC Professional software encoder is the perfect and fast HD content generation solution to guarantee the ultimate encoding operation, delivering MPEG-2 TS files for immediate usage in VOD servers. This product enables content delivery from HDTV to mobile systems. The Windows™ based application is easy to use locally or remotely in manual or automated ways - batch manager and dropping directories associated to custom presets allow one-click encoding or integration in an automated workflow.

ATEME AVC Professional Software Encoder has been worldwide adopted, and allowed the first deployment of HD content delivery over DSL in Europe and Asia.

"After thorough evaluation, we have selected the Ateme offline encoder in order to deliver to Hanaro Telecom’s customers the best video quality at lower bitrate, in particular for VOD content delivery" says M. Dae-Cheol Kim / Marketing Manager at Hanaromedia.

The ATEME MPEG-4 AVC Professional Software Encoder is available to professional end-users, integrators and OEMs.

About Hanaromedia

Hanaromedia (www.hanaromedia.co.kr) is a leading provider of TV-Portal in Korea, a full range of VOD Services (Movies, Dramas, educations, etc), Shopping and etc using IP-STB, holding IP-STB technology, building platform, operating platform and various contents (over 25,000 contents) regarding to TV-Portal.
    
About ATEME

ATEME (www.ateme.com) is a world-leading provider of MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 video compression solutions. The superior quality of its encoding technology makes it the best choice for demanding mobile to HD applications. ATEME’s customers benefit from the highest quality video at the lowest bit rates.