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Kulabyte™ Announces its new Express Encoding Series with H.264 encoding support for Adobe® Flash® Player 9


 

 

 

Kulabyte scales its TimeSliceTM technology to address the need for high speed, high quality encoding across multiple markets; from dual core laptops to large enterprise multi-server networks.

 

San Marcos, Texas – August 21st, 2007 – Kulabyte™, a leading provider of advanced video encoding optimization technologies, today announced that it has shipped Kulabyte Express Premier, the first product in the new Kulabyte Express Product line-up. The new Kulabyte Express series will debut at IBC 2007 in Booth 6.111, Hall 6 of the RAI Convention Center, on September 7th in Amsterdam.

 

 “HD quality at blazing speeds with multi-codec support is what customers have been asking for, and our new Kulabyte Express Encoding Series delivers exactly that,” said Chris Gottschalk, co-founder and chief technology officer for Kulabyte.

 

The Kulabyte Express series is a high speed, high quality SD & HD encoding product line that incorporates support for a broad range of industry-standard video codecs such as; On2 VP6 for Adobe® Flash®, MainConcept H.264 (Adobe® Flash® 9 Compatible) and Microsoft Windows Media 9/VC-1.

 

Kulabyte Express Series

* Kulabyte Express Lite – Simple and portable transcoding application for dual-core laptops and desktops. Starting at $395

* Kulabyte Express Pro – Easy to use transcoding and real-time capture encoding application for desktops and workstations up to 8-cores. Starting at $895

* Kulabyte Express Live – High quality live 2-pass VBR encoding with streaming output. Starting at $1,495

* Kulabyte Express Premier – Automated workflow transcoding and real-time capture encoding with streaming output. Starting at $1,495

* Kulabyte Express Enterprise – Massively scalable, comprehensive multi-server solution for large networks. Starting at $14,995

 

The Kulabyte Express Series is designed to provide flexibility for customers ranging from independent filmmakers to content aggregators and professional post production studios to major media companies with high volume encoding needs.

 

With the recent announcement of MainConcept’s H.264 support in the Adobe® Flash® player, this gives Kulabyte customers the ability to choose between MainConcept H.264 and On2 VP6 when encoding for Flash with the new Kulabyte Express Series.

 

The Kulabyte Express Premier product is available today and orders may be taken over the phone at +1.512.795.4228 or at sales@kulabyte.com.  The entire Kulabyte Express Series will be available for order at IBC 2007 in Booth 6.111, Hall 6 of the RAI Convention Center, on September 7th in Amsterdam.

 

About Kulabyte

Kulabyte LLC is a leading developer of advanced video encoding optimization solutions for multi-format capturing, encoding, transcoding, and live streaming of digital video. All products incorporate Kulabyte’s multi-core TimeSlice™ technology that significantly accelerates the encoding process by multiple factors (up to 16+ times faster), increases picture quality, and reduces the required bandwidth for video file transmission.  Live 2 pass Variable Bit Rate (VBR) and faster-than-real-time video can be encoded and transmitted at full SD and HD quality at consumer-level broadband speeds. Kulabyte is based in San Marcos, Texas USA.  For further information, please visit the company Web site at www.kulabyte.com.