Mobile Video

Placing an even greater focus on video, Dialogic (News - Alert) Corporation has announced the appointment of Dr. Jeffery Bloom who joins the company’s Media Labs team as Director, Video Technologies.

 

Dialogic provides products and technologies for media and signal processing. In an interview with TMCnet earlier this year, Jim Machi, Sr. VP of Marketing for Dialogic said that video components from Dialogic provide effective tools and environments for developing flexible and scalable mobile video applications.

 

“Dialogic provides mobile video components and platforms that help meet the challenges of heterogeneous networks, endpoint diversity, video quality bandwidth constraints and interactivity, allowing application developers to enhance their innovative applications and create exciting, must-have, revenue-generating mobile video services, said Machi.

 

“Our Dialogic Media Labs is also investing in video algorithmic work so that our video engines have perceptive quality and scalability over typical algorithms.”

 

Dr. Bloom, who will be based at the company’s Media Labs headquarters in Eatontown, New Jersey, will help improve the company’s video offerings through the creation of strategic plans related to Dialogic’s video products as well as lead the development of intelligent video software including image analysis, quality measurement and security applications.

 

Dr. Bloom, who has six issued patents and over 20 pending, is best known for his knowledge in the video industry and especially for content security as one of the authors on the primary textbook in digital watermarking.

 

"We are thrilled that Jeffrey - a pioneer in the field of digital watermarking - has joined the Dialogic Media Labs team," said Tim Murray, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Dialogic. "His specialized skills in video analytics and algorithms and his superior industry knowledge will be a great asset for Dialogic as we focus on enabling mainstream developers to rapidly develop and deploy video-based services on mobile and converged networks. We are confident that Jeffrey will play a significant role in moving Dialogic to the forefront of advanced video technology and applications."

 

In the earlier interview with TMCnet, Machi also noted that developing countries now account for more than half of mobile subscriber growth worldwide.

 

“With that said, our business is seeing mobile video opportunities everywhere, but more specifically in Latin America, India and Eastern Europe. We anticipate the US ramping up on video mobile value added services relatively soon as well,” said Machi.

“There are many projections for the mobile video market, all showing tremendous growth for obvious reasons – the mobile networks are increasingly able to support it, and the mobile devices are video enabled, so people will use them. Infonetics projects worldwide mobile video service revenue to increase at a 5-year CAGR by 130 percent, reaching $35 billion by 2011.”