Memberships

Sigma Designs is an active member of the following standards organizations. Participating in these organizations enables our products to quickly support new standards.

The creation of the 3D@Home Consortium has been driven by a desire by many of the leading 3D organizations to ensure the best possible 3-dimensional viewing experience to the billions of consumers in today's home entertainment marketplace.
http://www.3dathome.org/

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The Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) was chartered by the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications as a public service corporation on May 15, 1995. Its activities include those previously performed by the Research and Development Center for Radio Systems (RCR) and Broadcasting Technology Association (BTA).

ARIB was established in response to several trends such as the growing internationalization of telecommunications, the convergence of telecommunications and broadcasting, and the need for promotion of radio-related industries. ARIB's goal is to advance rapidly the use of radio technology for the benefit of society. This is done by integrating knowledge and experience in various fields of radio use such as broadcasting and telecommunications, research and development in radio technology, and serving as a standards development organization for radio technology.
http://www.arib.or.jp/english/index.html

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The Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc. (ATSC), is an international, non-profit membership organization developing voluntary standards for the entire spectrum of advanced television systems.

Specifically, ATSC is working to coordinate television standards among different communications media focusing on digital television, interactive systems, and broadband multimedia communications. ATSC is also developing digital television implementation strategies and presenting educational seminars on the ATSC standards.
http://www.atsc.org

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The Audio and Video Coding Standard (AVS) Workgroup of China was authorized and established by Science and Technology Department under National Information Industry Ministry in June, 2002. In order to meet the requirement of information industry and realize the union of the native enterprises and research institutions, the role of the group is to establish (or edit) such general technical standards as the compression, decoding, processing, and the representation of digital audio-video and meanwhile provide the digital audio-video equipments and systems with high-efficient and economic coding/decoding technologies. This standard is applied in the field of significant information industry such as high-resolution digital broadcast, high-density laser-digital storage media, wireless broad-band multimedia communication, and internet broad-band stream media.
http://www.avs.org.cn/en/

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The Blu-ray Disc Association, or BDA, is a voluntary membership group open to any corporation or organization with an interest in creating, upholding and/or promoting the Blu-ray Disc formats.
http://www.blu-raydisc.com

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Members of the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) share a vision of a wired and wireless interoperable network of Personal Computers (PC), Consumer Electronics (CE) and mobile devices in the home enabling a seamless environment for sharing and growing new digital media and content services.
http://www.dlna.org

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The Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) is an industry-led consortium of over 260 broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers, regulatory bodies and others in over 35 countries committed to designing global standards for the global delivery of digital television and data services.
http://www.dvb.org

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The DVD Forum is an international association of hardware manufacturers, software firms and other users of Digital Versatile Discs.
http://www.dvdforum.org

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The HomeGrid Forum supports the development of a next-generation single coax, powerline and phone line standard for home networking, promotes its wide adoption, and ensures compliance and interoperability.
http://homegridforum.org

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The Internet Streaming Media Alliance, Inc. is a non-profit corporation formed to provide a forum for the creation of specification(s) that define an interoperable implementation for streaming rich media (video, audio and associated data) over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
http://www.isma.tv

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The MPEG Industry Forum is a not-for-profit organization with the following goal: To further the adoption of MPEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted and widely used standards among creators of content, developers, manufacturers, providers of services, and end users.
http://www.mpegif.org

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The OpenCable™ initiative, managed by the Advanced Platforms and Services group at CableLabs, was begun in 1997 with a goal of helping the cable industry deploy interactive services over cable.
http://www.opencable.com

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The SCTE standards program provides an ANSI-accredited forum for the development of technical specifications supporting the cable telecommunications industry. The work program includes: Data and telephony over cable; Application platform development; Digital video; Emergency alert systems; Network monitoring systems; Cables, connectors and amplifiers; and Construction and maintenance practices.
http://www.scte.org/standards/

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The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), is the leading technical society for the motion imaging industry. SMPTE was founded in 1916 to advance theory and development in the motion imaging field. Today, SMPTE publishes ANSI-approved Standards, Recommended Practices, and Engineering Guidelines, along with the highly regarded SMPTE Journal and its peer-reviewed technical papers. SMPTE holds conferences and local Section meetings to bring people and ideas together, allowing for useful interaction and information exchange. e.
http://www.smpte.org

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The USB Implementers Forum is a non-profit corporation founded by the group of companies that developed the Universal Serial Bus specification. USB-IF was formed to provide a support organization and forum for the advancement and adoption of Universal Serial Bus technology.
http://www.usb.org

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The WiMedia Alliance is a not-for-profit open industry association that promotes and enables the rapid adoption, regulation, standardization and multi-vendor interoperability of ultra wideband (UWB) worldwide. WiMedia-based UWB specifications have been architected and optimized for wireless personal-area networks delivering high-speed (480Mbps and beyond), low-power multimedia capabilities for the PC, CE, mobile and automotive market segments. Emphasizing peaceful coexistence with other wireless services, WiMedia's UWB common platform is designed to operate with application stacks developed by the 1394 Trade Association Wireless Working Group, the Wireless USB Promoter Group and the Bluetooth-SIG.
http://www.wimedia.org

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