Digital Home Thoughts: CeBIT 2004 Press Event News

CodecSys appears to be doing something very interesting that might interest all of us here on DMT, especially when it comes to home built DVRs. They are apparently applying upto 30 different compression codecs to different segments of video and by applying different codecs instead of just one codec to the entire video, they get incredible compression levels. They are able to do real time encoding and decoding of this data. Apparently they are able to achieve a 300KB file after compression where an MPEG-4 file would be 2MB after compressing the same original video stream. A company to watch out for.







Panasonic was displaying previously announced technology (DVD recorders, personal camcorders, DVD players).







I finally get to touch the Motorola MPX. Two words - I want. However, it is a little bigger than I expected. To some extent, I might even want the Nokia 9500. But still, the MPX is so pretty. :)





Pentax showed off their new DSLR and their new 3MP camcorder (both of which we have posted on here at DMT). But it was good to actually operate them in person. The 3MP camcorder, also capable of taking stills, had a wide angle lens as an accessory and it was quite nice to see the difference between shots with and without the wide angle add-on.



Sandisk just announced their SD/IO Wi-Fi with 256 MB flash memory card and here is evidence that it actually exists :). There were far too many people around the Sandisk booth so I really did not get a chance to chat with anyone. I did however get a roadmap from both Sandisk and SD Card Association and apparently the 2GB SD card is right around the corner, i.e. probably end of Q3 this year.