TV Transmission

MultiDyne, a leading provider of fibre-optic-based video and audio transport solutions for broadcast and pro A/V applications, has introduced the FS-6000 Fibre-Saver, a portable CWDM remapper/multiplexer that transports up to six digital optical or six SDI signals over a single fibre, allowing users to transport additional signals easily in situations where there are an insufficient [...]

StorerTV, a global leader of media contract rights and program solutions, has partnered with Thought Development, a workflow systems developer for the media promotions industry, to better centralise and increase labor efficiencies within on-air promotion. Through the integration of the Storer Information Management System (SIMS) with the ON-AIR Pro system, program titles that are scheduled [...]

NTT Electronics Corporation announced the release of its new professional video decoder SARADEC2. SARADEC2 is single chip LSI 10bit H.264/AVC solution decoding MPEG-2 TS stream for 422/420, MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC, 1080/60i and 1080/60p(H.264/AVC) with 8bit/10bit(H.264/AVC) formats. By optimising memory bandwidth, SARADEC2 achieved 3w typical operation with 4x800MHz DDR for H.264/AVC-422/10bit operation. SARADEC2 functions include the [...]

Teijin Aramid has announced a new and improved way of protecting optical fibre cables: Twaron Tape. Optical fibre cables play an increasingly essential role in today’s telecommunications, and their fragile cores need protection from various hazards and strains. Optical fibre cables are getting smaller and smaller – and at the same time it becomes more [...]

ScheduALL has announced a strategic partnership with the World Teleport Association. The partnership will allow WTA members to showcase their resource inventories such as bandwidth, trucks and teleport packages to more than 1200 ScheduALL media and broadcast customers around the world. AVvA is ScheduALL’s cloud based scheduling platform and is free to WTA members. This [...]

Media Links Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Global Links announces new four-port video transmission interfaces for the MD8000 transport solution. The MD8000-UVTX and MD8000-UVRX support JPEG2000 compressed and uncompressed 3D dual-link, 3G-SDI, HD/SD-SDI and/or DVB-ASI signals over SONET/SDH, IP and DWDM based networks. The new MD8000-UVTX and MD8000-UVRX modules are high-density and cost-effective [...]

The GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) has published an update to its Evolution to LTE report which confirms 301 operators, which is over 50% higher than a year ago, have committed to commercial LTE network deployments or are engaged in trials, technology testing or studies. The report covers LTE FDD and LTE TDD system modes. [...]

TV One has added the 1T-VS-647 SDI to HDMI Scaler with Audio to its’ expanding TV One-task product line. The 1T-VS-647 converts a variety of SDI transmission rates and video resolutions into a HDMI signal. It also provides audio flexibility by outputting the audio embedded in the SDI signal to external connectors (both analogue and [...]

As one of the first in Europe, Open Channel started trials of the next generation Digital Terrestrial TV standard – DVB-T2 in 2010. Open Channel is now first in the world to air the next generation of mobile TV, based on the new standard DVB-T2 Lite profile. The service is now on air on UHF [...]

Satellite communications specialist Newtec has demonstrated 372 Mbps bidirectional throughput and 313 Mbps unidirectional throughput over a 72 Mhz Intelsat Ku-transponder. During testing an Intelsat 72 MHz Ku band transponder was saturated using Newtec’s latest modem technology and a mere 4.5 meter antenna. The result using Wideband, Clean Channel Technology (CCT) and Equalink was a [...]