Elemental Technologies, a pioneer of the multiscreen content market and a company that provides video solutions for customers that are interested in entering this market, recently revelaed that it will partner with CTCSP to introduce a new best-in-class video encoding and transcoding capability for streaming video providers in Japan.

Elemental's superb video processing systems will be combined with CTCSP's long experience in integrating these systems.

Both companies have a very broad customer base in Japan, which includes companies like Fujitsu Limited, Internet Initiative Japan (News - Alert), Inc., and Japan Institute of Sports Sciences. Globally, Elemental serves over 100 different enterprises around the globe, which include Disney (News - Alert), Comcast, Eurosport, and HBO.

CTCSP belongs to a group called CTC, also known as the ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation. CTCSP is one of the nation's biggest providers of content delivery with a customer base situated all over the nation. It has gained recognition as one of the biggest IT companies in all of Japan. Services of CTCSP often come with highly professional on-site support around the clock. The company's biggest expertise lies in multimedia and video technologies within many different industries such as broadcast and telecom.

Dan Marshall, SVP of Worldwide Sales and Services at Elemental said, "CTCSP has a well-respected sales and support team in Japan with deep expertise in the video infrastructure business. Combining that expertise with our award-winning transcoding solutions will allow us to best serve premium multiscreen broadcasters, programmers, and service providers throughout Japan."

Shinji Kumazaki, the president of CTCSP added, "Solutions from Elemental allow our customers to deliver video streams of the highest quality to PCs, tablets, and mobile devices with unprecedented performance that enables less expensive operational cost. Video processing from Elemental lets us achieve this with a higher degree of interoperability and with highly optimized H.264, MPEG-2, and VC-1 codecs developed by Elemental themselves for high-quality streaming to smartphones and other devices."