Fujitsu intros HD transcoder chip

Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia announced the release of its new transcoder
chip that can compress full HD (1920x1080) MPEG-2 video data to H.264 data. The
new chip is capable of compressing MPEG-2 video to less than half the data size
while maintaining the same video quality. The new chip is ideal for use in
recording equipment such as hard drives, where recording time can be increased
by more than 250 percent.It also allows transmission of full HD video over
narrow bandwidths.