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Business Wire
29-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Pozalabs Joins the Alliance for Open Media
WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) today announced that Pozalabs, an AI-powered music technology company, has joined the Alliance. As a member of AOMedia, Pozalabs will collaborate with the Alliance's community of internet and media technology member companies to drive open standards for cutting-edge video, audio, and multimedia advancements worldwide. "We're excited to welcome Pozalabs, reflecting our joint commitment to improve open media in new and cutting-edge ways,' said Matt Frost, Chairperson of AOMedia. Pozalabs' audio technology experts will support the AOMedia Audio Codec Working Group in developing open audio codecs that deliver high-quality sound for modern multimedia applications, including AOMedia's Immersive Audio Model and Formats (IAMF) container specification. AOMedia's codec-agnostic IAMF is designed to enable creatives to revolutionize immersive audio experiences across a myriad of applications, from streaming and gaming to augmented reality and virtual reality, as well as traditional broadcasting. Pozalabs has developed a proprietary AI music generation model that produces expressive, structured compositions tailored to specific moods, genres, and emotions. Its technology enables fine-grained control over the length, arrangement, and instrumentation of music, with all compositions output in stem format—making them ideal for immersive audio and interactive content applications. 'Joining AOMedia represents a key milestone in aligning our generative music technologies with global standards,' said Taehyun Kim, CEO of Pozalabs America. 'We're committed to building an open and accessible audio ecosystem for the next generation of content creators.' "We're excited to welcome Pozalabs, reflecting our joint commitment to improve open media in new and cutting-edge ways,' said Matt Frost, Chairperson of AOMedia. "We're eager to collaborate to advance open web media experiences and accelerate the adoption of open web media standards, bringing cinematic-quality 3D immersive audio to today's consumer electronics." About Pozalabs Pozalabs is a leader in AI music generation, offering proprietary composition models, APIs, and B2C platforms like eapy, viodio, and LAIVE. Its solutions support music creation across content, gaming, and commercial use. Learn more at Launched in 2015, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) was formed to define and develop technologies to address marketplace demand for open standards for media compression and delivery spanning video, audio, still images, and immersive technologies. Board-level members include Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Google, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, NVIDIA, Samsung Electronics and Tencent. AOMedia's open-source codec, AV1, is a significant milestone in the ability to deliver a next-generation video format that is interoperable, open, optimized for internet delivery and scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth. Visit
India Today
22-05-2025
- India Today
Netflix to stop working on many devices from June 2, check this list to see if you will be impacted or not
If you've been holding on to your original Amazon Fire TV Stick for nostalgic or budget-friendly reasons, it's time to prepare for a change. Especially if you are a big fan of Netflix and chill. Starting June 2, 2025, Netflix will no longer support its app on several first-generation Fire TV devices — a move that marks the end of an era for early streaming of the key reasons behind Netflix's decision is the transition to more advanced video formats. The company has been rolling out AV1, a high-efficiency codec that delivers better video quality while using less data — particularly beneficial for users on limited bandwidth. Unfortunately, the first-gen Fire TV devices do not support AV1, which means they cannot deliver the optimal viewing experience Netflix now strives of devices that will lose Netflix supportThe affected models include the Amazon Fire TV (2014), the Fire TV Stick (2014), and the Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote (2016). These devices, once at the forefront of Amazon's home entertainment push, are now considered outdated and no longer meet the requirements for modern streaming platforms. The decision doesn't come as much of a surprise. Amazon itself stopped providing software updates and security patches for these models years ago. Without regular updates, these devices have become increasingly incompatible with newer technologies, leaving them unable to support improvements in streaming quality, performance, and some time, even communities like the FireTV subreddit have discouraged people from buying or relying on these early models, citing performance limitations and lack of modern feature is your next step?If you're unsure whether your device is affected, head over to Amazon's official support page to check your model. To make it easy for you, only the earliest Fire TV models are impacted. For everyone else, Netflix will continue functioning as the June 2025 cutoff approaches, now is a good time to consider upgrading. Options like the Fire TV Stick 4K and Fire TV Stick 4K Max offer dramatically improved performance, support for current video and audio standards (including AV1), and are likely to go on sale during Amazon Prime Day in Netflix will remain accessible across a wide range of supported devices, including Roku sticks, Android TV boxes, smart TVs, and gaming consoles. If you've been thinking about making the jump to a newer streaming platform, there's no better the meantime, the Netflix app on these older Fire TV devices is already marked as incompatible for new installations. After June 2, 2025, even existing installations will stop working — so best to prepare in advance if you're still streaming on a relic.
BBC News
08-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Classroom robots to support absent children in Wakefield
Robots are to be placed in classrooms in parts of West Yorkshire to help pupils who struggle to attend school feel more included. The devices are small enough to sit on a desk and will be used to help pupils in Wakefield to take part in lessons from so-called AV1 robots contain a camera and microphone which connects absent pupils who can speak, see and hear lessons through the device using an Council plans to use 27 machines as part of a pilot project to support children who have health needs or are off school due to anxiety or emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA). The robots were developed by technology company No Isolation for children who are unable to attend school through long-term to a report, more than 1,600 AV1 devices are now being used to help pupils in other areas of the UK stay connected to their education and of the scheme were discussed at a meeting of the council's children and young people scrutiny Dundas, the council's head of inclusion, strategy and performance, said: "If you've broken your leg and can't get to school, this robot will sit in your classroom with your peers and you will be able to communicate with the robot. "The teacher can ask you questions and you can also answer as well, so it's very interactive."She said schools were "very nervous" around safeguarding issues but that the device had security measures in place and could not record anything. According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), committee member Debbie Kahler said. "It does raise serious concerns for me, especially for safeguarding, because you don't know who is behind the screen."We have moved into this era of AI and we have no legislation in place for it, no policy in place for it and we are moving forward with Heath, service director for education and inclusion, said any issues would be addressed during the pilot period. "This gives us an opportunity to focus it on a very specific cohort of children."There are very clear parameters around that. We have done a lot of work to ensure safeguarding is paramount."No Inclusion said the robot meant children could be involved in "all aspects of school life"."The physical presence means the student is not forgotten, even on days when they are too unwell to log on." Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Yahoo
Netflix will stream shows and movies in HDR10+ on supported devices
Netflix has announced that it's adding support for HDR10+ streaming, on top of the existing HDR10 and Dolby Vision formats that are already offered on the streaming service. HDR10+ should offer greater visual fidelity on a per-frame basis for Netflix's frequently dark original programming. The company is enabling HDR10+ with the AV1 codec, the specification originally released in 2018 that's gradually become the standard for streaming 4K video without gobbling data. Netflix first adopted AV1 as a way to help customers save data while watching on their phone, but the compression tech works just as well for streaming large HDR files. Netflix is enabling HDR10+ on select popular titles now, and hopes to eventually offer all HDR content in the new format. Anyone with a Netflix Premium subscription and a device that supports both HDR10+ and AV1 (which includes most modern mobile phones and tablets) should be able to watch compatible content in HDR10+. After 4K, high dynamic range (HDR) has come to define the look of modern TV and movies, particularly on streaming. HDR content makes clear the stark differences between the light and dark parts of an image. The under-exposed, muddy quality of modern streaming TV is frequently due to an expectation that audiences will be viewing on a device that supports HDR. Without it, you can't see anything. With it, you can pick up all the various shades of gray that have become the norm in prestige TV. Netflix first rolled out support for HDR in 2016 with the debut of Marco Polo, and in the years since, has made supporting Dolby Vision and HDR10, the most common HDR format, the norm on its service. If you've been watching Netflix on a display that already uses Dolby Vision, you likely won't notice a difference, but if you're TV only offers HDR10+, adding support for the format should make watching everything a little bit better.
Associated Press
11-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Allegro DVT Launches its First AI-Based Neural Video Processing IP
GRENOBLE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 11, 2025-- Allegro DVT, a leader in video processing semiconductor solutions, is excited to announce the launch of its latest innovation, its first AI-based Neural Video Processing NVP300 IP. This groundbreaking product marks Allegro DVT's commitment to embrace the AI revolution and push video quality to the next level, leveraging the advanced features and benefits of AI based video processing technologies. The new NVP300 semiconductor IP features an optimized hardware implementation to deliver real-time AI processing of 4K video within best-in-class silicon area and power budget suitable for embedded products. 'We are thrilled to introduce our first AI-based Neural Video Processing IP to the market,' said Nouar Hamze, CEO at Allegro DVT. 'The NVP300 represents a significant advancement in video processing technology offering stunning subjective video quality improvements. It will greatly benefit our customers to power their next generation video compression solutions.' The launch of the AI-based Neural Video Processing NVP300 IP marks a major milestone for Allegro DVT as it continues to innovate and provide high-quality solutions to its customers. Allegro DVT is a world leading provider of digital video technology solutions including compliance streams and video codec semiconductor IPs focused on H.264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, VVC, LCEVC and AVM standards. Clarisse Maldera - Marketing Executive SOURCE: Allegro DVT Copyright Business Wire 2025. PUB: 03/11/2025 05:35 AM/DISC: 03/11/2025 05:34 AM
