The world's leading vendor of performance H.264 network video encoders, HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), is pleased to announce the appointment of Image Design Technology (IDT) based in Sydney, Australia as HaiVision's primary distributor for Australia and New Zealand. IDT has commenced regional marketing of HaiVision's complete product line and in March will be introducing HaiVision's revolutionary MAKO-HD technology.

    With imperceptible latencies and pristine full motion image quality MAKO-HD is ideal for the demands of telepresence, medical, and broadcast applications. With the lowest latency ever achieved by an H.264 codec system, the MAKO-HD provides highly interactive communication between remote sites.

    Gerry Wilkins, IDT's Managing Director and founder says that there is no comparison to HaiVision's MAKO-HD on the market today.

    Wilkins said: "HaiVision's network video products are fundamental in enabling IDT to expand our position within the traditional AV segment". "With HaiVision, we are able to better assist our partners in understanding and expanding their markets in sectors where there is a critical requirement for the highest quality of transmission such as in tele-medicine, interactive broadcast, IPTV and telepresence."

    Mirko Wicha, HaiVision's CEO, indicates: "IDT is investing in bringing together network video solutions for their local channel partners". "The IDT team has been fully trained on our entire product range at our Montreal headquarters and we are excited that they have embraced our latest technology."

    IDT have also brought Clinton Walker, an IT specialist, on board to support the HaiVision range. Clinton has a great deal of experience in the provision of IP based solutions and is available to support all of IDT's HaiVision customers.

    HaiVision's new MAKO-HD codec for the hai1000 multi-stream encoder/decoder system delivers full frame rate high definition (HD) video with an unprecedented 70 milliseconds of end to end latency. The MAKO-HD supports standard resolutions up to 1080p and also supports real-time full frame rate encoding of computer source content (up to WXGA).