• 1984

  Cedeo.net
  A company with the mission to imagine, design and implement advanced digital media solutions, blending new technologies and standards and paving the way to the next phase of pervasive media-empowered communication.

• 1986

  HDTVWS
  A technical workshop designed to foster introduction of HDTV and related services and applications through the synergy of the broadest possible basis of technical communities.

• 1988

  Image Communication
  A European Association for Signal Processing (Eurasip) technical journal aiming to create a forum for the advancement of theory and practice of image communication and stimulate cross-fertilisation between areas of a similar nature, which have traditionally remained separated.

• 1988

  64KBWS
  A technical workshop designed to assess the progress of video coding technologies applicable on Basic Access ISDN, and to discuss new trends in advanced algorithms.

• 1988

  MPEG
  A working group of ISO/IEC in charge of development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video, and related data. MPEG’s standards have ushered in the digital media age and continue to help the industry to offer users an ever more enjoyable digital media experience.

• 1994

  Davic
  A non-profit Association registered in Geneva with the goal to promote the success of interactive digital audio-visual applications and services through specifications of open interfaces and protocols that maximise interoperability, across geographical boundaries and diverse applications, services and industries (now closed).

• 1996

  FIPA
  A non-profit organisation registered in Geneva with the purpose to promote the development of specifications of generic agent technologies that maximise interoperability within and across agent-based applications (now an IEEE Computer Society standards organisation).

• 1998

  OPIMA
  An IEC ITA initiative to develop specifications enabling a consumer to obtain a receiver and begin to consume and pay for services, without having prior knowledge of which services would be consumed, in a simple way such as by operating a remote control device.

• 1999

  SDMI
  An organisation to develop specifications that enable the protection of the playing, storing, and distributing of digital music such that a new market for digital music may emerge (now closed).

• 2002

  Riding to media bit
  An exhaustive and up-to-date practical guide to digital media written by the founder and chairman of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).

• 2003

  DMP
  A non-profit organisation registered in Geneva whose current goal is the development of specification and an industry-grade implementation of Open Connected TV (OCTV) based on international standards.

• 2005

  Dimin.it
  An interdisciplinary, open, non-profit group established to identify action areas that enable Italy to play a primary role in the exploitation of the global "digital media" phenomenon.

• 2009

  Wim.tv
  The WinLabs’s digital video network that lets you access the services of its Digital Media Management platform – Digital Media Marketplace, Crowdsourcing, Export and Streaming distribution – in a simple and inexpensive way.

• 2011

  WimLabs
  A company with the mission to improve the matching of offer, demand and distribution of multimedia content and services on the Web. WimLabs’s innovative Digital Media Management platform supports Digital Media Marketplace, Crowdsourcing, Export and Distribution via streaming.

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