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MPEG-4: The Impact of the Open Standard on the Future of Digital Media

MPEG-4  
Migration of streaming media platforms to an open standard promises to lead to tremendous opportunities, and tremendous headaches. This report separates hype from reality, arming CDNs, Vendors, CTOs, Broadcasters, and others with the facts they need to make accurate business decisions today.

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Unlike most of the rest of the Internet, streaming media has been dominated by proprietary tools and proprietary solutions.

Some see this as a problem.

Enter the MPEG-4 standard -- a set of specifications that may be used to build products for creation, encoding and delivery of audio/video content over many kinds of networks to a variety of clients (personal computers, wireless receivers, set-top boxes, gaming consoles, web browsers, handhelds, etc.).

Migration of streaming media platforms to an open standard promises to lead to tremendous opportunities, and tremendous headaches. This report separates hype from reality, arming CDNs, Vendors, CTOs, Broadcasters, Enterprise Training and Sales managers, and others, with the facts they need to make accurate business decisions today.

Some of the questions answered:

  • What exactly is contained within the MPEG-4 spec?
  • Will the current tangle of patents and other intellectual property issues surrounding this spec be resolved? If so, when and how is this likely to happen?
  • What is the perceived benefit of MPEG-4 for streaming media industry players -- and how does that perception differ from the early-adopter reality of what's about to happen to the marketplace?
  • What kinds of products are coming down the pike, when will they be released, and how much will they cost?
If you work with streaming media, the MPEG-4 standard will have a major impact on your business.

Can you afford not to know everything there is to know, today?

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