Building on the industry-leading Windows Media Audio and Video codecs, "Corona" introduces two new professional-level audio and video codecs. The new WMA Professional codec is the first codec to enable Web-based delivery of 6 channel surround sound with full-spectrum, full resolution audio (24 bit / 96 kHz sampling). A new version of the Windows Media Video (WMV) codec provides a 20% efficiency boost compared with the previous version and now introduces the ability to provide HDTV-like video quality at file sizes half that of today?s DVDs, for local playback on the PC.
Fast Streaming delivers an "instant-on, always-on" streaming experience for broadband users, effectively eliminating the ever-present buffering delays. Fast Streaming also automatically optimizes the delivery of streaming audio and video to take advantage of the full bandwidth available to the user, which vastly reduces or eliminates the impact of congestion on the Web for broadband users.
Windows Media Corona Home page
Windows Media Corona Demo
Fast Streaming delivers an "instant-on, always-on" streaming experience for broadband users, effectively eliminating the ever-present buffering delays. Fast Streaming also automatically optimizes the delivery of streaming audio and video to take advantage of the full bandwidth available to the user, which vastly reduces or eliminates the impact of congestion on the Web for broadband users.
Windows Media Corona Home page
Windows Media Corona Demo
