HaiVision joins up with Video Furnace

Big things are looming for the high definition Video to IP market with the merger of the globe’s leading supplier of super-performing H.264 codecs and encoders, HaiVision Systems Inc., and world leading video software maker Video Furnace Inc.

The new company will be called HaiVision Network Video and will specialise in offering the base-to-base HD H.264 IPTV combination to government, medicine and the military, which will allow the delivery of 1080p high definition video over standard IP networks at super quality.

Both companies are pushing the world adoption of H.264 as the standard for the video over IP industry in order to bring together a single distribution point for this technology, which experts are lauding in what is otherwise a fragmented market.

Video Furnace brings to the merger its powerful, fully developed video over IP distribution ability, allowing complete recording and video on demand capacity.

Its InStream player, which needs no software set-up on PCs, allows for extremely easy IP video access.

It also brings to the party its revolutionary, ten simultaneous HD streaming SHARE-HD Network Video Recorder, which has been lauded by the medical fraternity for its capacity for education, as well as gaining great acceptance by the military and educators who are using video networks for training.

The 10-stream HD capacity is vital for medical training and advanced networked classrooms, as well as mission criticality in military manoeuvres because it allows for multiple views of events in real-time.

Today’s operating rooms in training hospitals use a myriad of different cameras, imaging devices and systems measuring the vital statistics of patients, and with SHARE-HD, medical trainers can capture everything that is happening in the theatre and replay it all either through a PC or via a network for full context reviewing of each session.

The exact synchronization that SHARE-HD captures, can be encoded in real-time using HaiVision’s hai1000™ and the codec technology of the hai1000 MAKO-HD and stored in a single system.

Data can also be simultaneously sent to a central SHARE-HD server where it can be sent out to any number of networks via the technology offered by HaiVision’s Logical Multicast, or it can be recorded at the central location, which is not affected by the network streaming. (Read the Share HD story here)