The American Academy awards a technical Emmy to the development of JPEG2000

JPEG2000 video compression offers broadcasters and network service providers an interoperable method for transporting high-quality video.

The North American National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has awarded a technical Emmy for excellence in engineering, innovation and vision to the JPEG2000 development group formed by Video Services Forum, Media Links, Nevion, DVBlink, Imagine Communications, Ericsson, Artel, Barco-Silex and IntoPix.

J2K video compression offers broadcasters and network service providers an interoperable method for transporting high-quality video. JPEG2000 allows high quality video to be transported with minimal latency over IP/Ethernet networks.

With this recognition that the Academy makes to the work of Video Services Forum, Media Links, Nevion, DVBlink, Imagine Communications, Ericsson, Artel, Barco-Silex and IntoPix.

Thanks to the work of the Video Services Forum (VSF), JPEG2000 is now a reality that allows material to be exchanged between different encoding and decoding equipment, maintaining interoperability. This technical recommendation allows real-time transmission as well as encapsulated audio and ancillary data over IP. Other advantages include virtually lossless compression, low latency, and minimal end-to-end delay, allowing for very robust delivery.

Thanks to its granularity, JPEG2000 allows progressive decoding of the content. Its architecture is effective for the transmission and visualization of large volumes of data, while it is efficient in the use of resources, presenting good performance for the transmission and decoding processes, allowing a simple and dynamic interaction between the user and the content.