Software for universal media transcoding for internet, mobile, and broadcast video applications; Computer hardware and software for use by cable, satellite, terrestrial broadcasters, telephone carriers and wireless telecommunications operators for video delivery, video compression, video stream processing and band width expansion; Computer hardware, namely, encoders, video and audio input processors, Ethernet adapters, and embedded software for use in the compression and decompression of video and audio data; Electronic circuit boards for the compression, decompression, multiplexing, recoding, playback, transmissions, reception, switching, and demultiplexing of digital, audio, video and data signals and parts thereof; Computer hardware and software for capturing and digitizing video and audio content, for controlling professional videotape recorders and encoders, for editing digital ad content, for creating video-on-demand content, for embedded decoder cards, for automating and streamlining graphical user interface software, and for managing computer networks; Electronic system, namely, hardware and software for transcoding and transmultiplexing of digital audio, video, and electronic asset metadata; Computer software for scheduling the recording of broadcast channels by video on demand service providers; Electronic systems comprising apparatus for the reception, remultiplexing, descrambling, decoding, compression, multiplexing, scrambling, transmission and monitoring of standard and high definition digital video, audio, and data signals and parts thereof; Video input and output cards for use by telecommunications and broadcast companies for transmission of voice, data, graphics, and video signals, optical transmitters and optical receivers; Hardware and software for variable bitrate encoding and statistical multiplexing; amplifiers; preamplifiers; Power supplies; Hardware and software for monitoring the status of network management systems and video and audio services and systems; Hardware and software for controlling video servers; Video splitters and combiners; Communication access nodes for transport of voice, video and high-speed data in wide area networks, local area networks, cable networks, and broadband networks; Digital compression units for processing of digital music and video images; Computer software for compression of digital music and video; Computer hardware, software, and modems for delivery of high speed broadband signals; Equipment for use with broadband networks, namely, fiber optics, cable, satellite, and wireless telecommunications networks, for providing access and transmitting signals, namely, head end controllers, monitors, compression devices, mulitplexers, scramblers and modulators' optical, digital and cable transmitters using high speed broadband technology; Head end controllers, computer hardware and computer software for the management and transmission of data over fiber optics, cable, satellite and wireless telecommunications networks; Broadband network interfaces; Computer hardware and software for managing various elements of a wireless, high speed, broadband communication network and parts and manuals sold therewith as a unit