Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Gerry Purdy, Vice President and Chief Analyst for Frost & Sullivan to discuss their analysis of the current and future transcoding market. Having both just come back from the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, we had quite a bit to talk about, especially around mobile video. Due to the length of the discussion, we’ve broken the interview into 4 parts to make it a bit easier to digest. Part 1 focuses on Frost & Sullivan’s worldwide encoder and transcoder research report including the impact mobile video will have on transcoding and the challenges that await this year.

I enjoyed the chance to get Frost & Sullivan’s perspective of the market. I hope you’ll find the dialogue interesting as well. We’ll be posting Parts 2 - 4 of my conversation with Dr. Purdy over the next few weeks…stay tuned.