Rhozet Carbon Coder Wins Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award

Posted by Derrick on November 29, 2009 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Harmonic Inc. announced that its Rhozet Carbon Coder universal media transcoding solution has won the Streaming Media 2009 Readers’ Choice Award in one of the two Encoding Software categories.  Winners were announced November 19 at a reception in San Jose as part of the Streaming Media West conference. This year’s selection by Streaming Media readers follows last year’s recognition of Carbon Coder as a “Streaming Media Editors’ Pick,” representing one of the 10 most outstanding products for the streaming media industry.

“The Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards are the only awards of their kind in the online video industry,” said Streaming Media Magazine Editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen. “While other awards focus exclusively on content, this is the only awards program that honors the technology that makes it all possible, and it’s definitely the only one where the people decide who wins. And this year, more than 5,000 votes were cast for more than 200 nominees. Clearly, people care deeply about the tools they use to get their jobs done.”

“This vote of confidence from Streaming Media readers confirms that we are successfully
tackling the key concerns of how to achieve cost-effective, high-quality transcoding,” said David Trescot, Vice President of the Rhozet Business Unit at Harmonic Inc. “The Carbon Coder family of transcoding solutions continues to gain momentum in the marketplace, securing Harmonic’s position as a leading provider of scalable, enterprise-level transcoding.”

Carbon Coder is a universal media transcoding solution used by leading media companies
including Ascent Media Group, British Sky Broadcasting (BskyB), Lifetime Networks, MTV,
Yahoo! and YouTube to facilitate the creation of multi-format video for Internet, mobile and broadcast applications. Multiple Carbon Coder nodes can be configured as a rendering farm, controlled by one or more Carbon Servers, for distributed enterprise transcoding. Additionally, Carbon QC brings automated compliance and quality testing to the transcoding workflow.