AMSTERDAM, September 7 – Kulabyte™, a leading provider of advanced audio and video processing technologies, today announced that it has signed South Korean firm Benhur to a distribution agreement in which Benhur will deliver solutions based on Kulabyte’s industry-leading video encoding solutions. Benhur will provide its streaming customers in South Korea with services that use the recently-announced Kulabyte Express suite of encoding solutions, the industry’s fastest video encoding products.
Kulabyte recently introduced its Kulabyte Express encoding and transcoding products, which provide the most comprehensive suite of encoding solutions for customers, including WM9, MPEG-2, H.264 (Flash compatible), and VP6 for Flash.
“The Korean market is the world’s most sophisticated broadband market, and we are pleased that Benhur will deliver Kulabyte Express-based solutions to customers in this region,” said Robin Rush, CEO of Kulabyte. “The significance of the Korean market for next-generation video encoding products provides us with a great opportunity and, together with Benhur, we plan to address this market.”
All products incorporate Kulabyte’s multi-core TimeSlice™ technology that significantly accelerates the encoding process by multiple factors (up to 16+ times faster), increases picture quality, and reduces the required bandwidth for video file transmission. Live two- pass Variable Bit Rate (VBR) and faster-than-real-time video can be encoded and transmitted at full SD and HD quality, even at consumer-level broadband speeds.
We are discovering new avenues for our services and solutions – whether corporate, media, or consumer – and the Kulabyte Express products are a tremendous asset in delivering higher quality, at lower costs, for our customers,” said Eun Hur the CEO of Benhur. “The market for broadcast-quality video is growing – thanks to online and mobile delivery networks – and Kulabyte is well-positioned to address customers’ most urgent needs. We look forward to working together with them to address these issues.”