Colorado vNet ships Vibe Video System for media management
by Darren Murph 
posted Dec 5th 2008 at 9:56AM
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Thomson's ViBE encoders enable 50% faster HD channel changing
by Darren Murph posted Nov 30th 2008 at 11:33AM
Look, 1.9 seconds to change the channel is way, way too long people -- we all know that. Thankfully, the bright engineers at Thomson realize it too, and that's why they've cranked out some seriously awesome advances to their ViBE encoders. The new "fast zapping solutions" enable 50% faster high-definition channel changing, and the secret is in the fancy simultaneous compression that most users won't even notice. In essence, it allows the STB to "quickly decode and display a low resolution version of the channel and transition to displaying the full HD resolution version without disrupting viewing," and if all goes well, we could see this become the de facto way of channel surfing by 2009. Gnarly, dudes.
