FM-net Codec
Advanced compressiong technology provided by DivX and our own proprietary encryption technology combine in this software to get a beautiful better-than-VHS picture to the Broadband TV viewer with no fuss or updating.
FM-net has invented the most beautiful streaming codec (media encoder-decoder) in the world, the only non-Microsoft codec approved by Hollywood studios. With a bit-rate low enough to be practical yet high enough to achieve better than VHS quality, this codec will enable an entire industry of Broadband TV with distribution costs far lower than satellite or cable systems. An additional benefit of the Broadband TV system is video-on-demand (VOD), in which a customer may select from a library of movies and view their choice instantly, without waiting for film download.
Competing Codecs
No other codec in the world today achieves VHS quality at an affordable bit
rate. There exist other codecs which are designed for downloading of films,
and which achieve better quality, but these won't work for streaming because
their decompression and decoding routines are too slow and demand too much of
the consumer's CPU or STB. And no other codec except Microsoft's has won approval
for its copy protection features from Hollywood studios, enabling it to license
and safely show content from the major suppliers.