As a Director of Wireless Products I would hope you would know the strengths and weakness of your competition. Obviously that you need to do some research on your competition. I am neither apart of Packet Video, HelloNetwork, Emblaze Wireless or any other streaming wireless company. I believe that the real winners of the Streaming Media players will be able to have a good combo of hardware as well as software with MPEG-4.
What I mean is basically mean is to have a Software Based solutions that also works with an Embedded Solution in the Handset. To better define this, I wanted to basically break down the competition I have seen. Most of the Companies do agree that MPEG-4 is the future but people wanted to support more formats as well.
Emblaze Wireless
Hardware Partner: Samsung, LG Telecom
MPEG-4 Supported both on the Software End and Hardware end on the Handsets. This means that the chips on the handsets support the decoding of MPEG-4
Business Model: They have a business model which aligns with the Telcom people and does an ASP type model, but you have to buy their CODEC
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Packet Video
Hardware Partner: Qualcomm CDMA Chipset ARM7TDMA Chipset
MPEG-4 Supported both on the Software End and Hardware end on the Handsets. This means that the CDMA chips on the handsets support the decoding of MPEG-4
Business Model: They can have an ASP model but the company can choose for all the Servers to be licensed to the Content provider
Hello Newtork
Hardware Partner: ????????????
They are so secretative of their products that they dont show much. All they state that they have an End to End Java Solution?
Bussiness Model : ?????????
I do not claim to know everything but they seem to keep everything quiet till recently. Their CEO is an ex-Exec from 3Com; The company is located in Las Vegas
Can anyone comment about other wireless streaming companies
-----Jay
Java Architect, Qualcomm's Brew Developer, Wireless Consultant from Silicon Valley
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Received on Wed Oct 17 10:10:30 2001