Offered by Motorola’s home and networks mobility business, the system compresses, encrypts, modulates, and receives the high-definition (HD) signals within a single integrated transmission system to allow Home Box Office (HBO) to expand its HD offerings to subscribers.
Bob Zitter, executive vice president, technology and chief technology officer of HBO, said: HBO has a long history of delivering great programming in the highest quality and just as we were the first to launch a high-definition feed, we are now the first to commit to the full breadth of our channels in HD. Motorola’s implementation of the highly efficient MPEG-4 encoding standard provides the quality that we require and that our customers expect.
Doug Means, corporate vice president and general manager for Motorola home and networks mobility, said: Motorola has made a long-term commitment to the advancement of digital video technology. As such, we are very pleased to work with HBO on this important industry project. We expect this project to change the way programmers approach large-scale, high- and standard-definition content distribution.
