THOMSON HDE 8100 HD/SD Encorder Grass Valley

Grass Valley™ products from Thomson offer the most comprehensive, multi-format solutions for acquisition, production, storage, playback, and transmission—and a strong foundation for centralized, proactive status and activity monitoring. Designed for cable, direct-to-home satellite, telecommunications, and terrestrial television operations, Grass Valley transmission products provide turnkey solutions for digital content delivery. Whether it’s moving digital information from studios to broadcast centers or to a local head end, they provide the best video quality at the lowest bit rate—all using open architectures that support myriad conditionalaccess systems, middleware, and other devices. For HD encoding and decoding,

the new Grass Valley HDE 8100 and HDE 8200 offer next-generation performance that enables studios, broadcasters, and satellite and cable operators to exchange and distribute high-definition (HD) signals while maximizing their available bandwidth. With advanced digital video compression and audio quality, the encoder and decoder use the latest chip technology to facilitate highquality 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 compression profiles. Only 1 RU high, they support the full gamut of standard-definition (SD) and HD formats, including 1080i, 720p, and 480i. They also support high-quality, multi-channel audio, accommodating four stereo channels of AES/ EBU audio as well as embedded audio signals. Taking advantage of its leading position and experience in MPEG-2 compression technology, the new HD encoder and decoder also reflect Thomson’s commitment to provide customers with full range of signalprocessing choices, including those of compression formats.