Berlin, Germany - 16 April 2009 - Sebastian Moeritz, CEO of dicas, the German MPEG expert, and President of the MPEG Industry Forum, the largest advocacy group for standards-based digital television technologies in the world, has been named in Streaming Media’s recently published Dream Team 2009.
"This year's Streaming Media Dream Team represents the diversity of the online video industry today, from the entertainment industry to education and the enterprise, and from hard-core technologists to conceptual visionaries," says Streaming Media editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen. "But one thing ties them all together: A passion for online video that goes beyond merely advancing their own personal and professional agendas to pushing the entire industry forward. They're all superstars, but they're all team players, too."
The Streaming Media Dream Team 2009 was chosen by Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen (Editor, Streaming Media), Sjoerd Vogt (Director of Europe sales, Streaming Media), and Dan Rayburn (executive VP, Streaming Media). More than 70 industry executives and experts were nominated, and the final team can be found here: http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11099
About dicas
dicas, founded in 1999, is an MPEG-focused video coding specialist and a leading developer of ISO MPEG-4 real-time video coding hardware products and software solutions for Broadcast, IPTV, Mobile TV, Internet Streaming, Multimedia and Security applications. Under the brand name mpegable, dicas offers a family of MPEG-4, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 (SD and HD) and 3GPP compliant professional software tools and components for a number of operating systems and DSPs/ICs. dicas also supplies services for the development, customization and optimization of MPEG-based video coding solutions.
About MPEGIF
The MPEG Industry Forum is an independent and platform neutral not-for-profit organisation representing 25 international companies and organizations from diverse industries with the goal to facilitate and further the widespread adoption and deployment of MPEG and related standards in next generation digital media services. It provides a forum to exchange information and views on technological, economic and regulatory issues that are relevant to these services. It also provides a powerful industry voice advocating the adoption of standards and consolidating the direction of the industry in the time of transition from analogue to digital television and media services. MPEGIF, with more than 2,500 people subscribed to its mailing lists, has played a significant role in facilitating the widespread adoption and deployment of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, the Emmy-Award winning video compression technology, as the industry's video compression standard powering next generation television and most mainstream content delivery as well as consumption applications including packaged media. MPEGIF offers interoperability testing, a conformance program, marketing activities and is present at international trade shows and conferences.
About Streaming Media
Streaming Media, an Information Today Inc. company, is a diversified news media company serving and educating the streaming media industry and community. Originally founded in 1998, the company was sold by Penton Media to Information Today Inc. in December of 2002. The business consists of three core areas: StreamingMedia.com, exhibitions and conferences, and research and publications. Lead by a team of recognized industry experts, Streaming Media is dedicated to providing industry professionals and corporations utilizing digital media technology with global real-time news, resources and services through editorial, discussion lists, feature articles, and much more.
About StreamingMedia.com
StreamingMedia.com is the premier online destination for professionals seeking industry news, information, articles, directories and services. The site features thousands of original articles, hundreds of hours of audio/video content, breaking news, research reports, industry directory, and case studies that showcase the latest real-world streaming media implementations. Streaming Media Xtra, the weekly e-newsletter considered a "must read" by industry insiders, has a senior level readership now exceeding 37,000. Since the acquisition of Streaming Media by Information Today, Inc., the site has evolved to bring a more focused approach to content by providing users with the knowledge they need for real world implementations of streaming media technology and applications. With over 107,000 registered users, StreamingMedia.com's aim is to supply the community and those corporations implementing this technology with unparalleled information online.
Streaming Media Europe will take place from 14 to 16 October in London, UK. For more information, please visit http://www.streamingmediaglobal.com/europe/index.asp
