IBC 2011. Hall 1. Stand No. 1.F36. Set-top-box chip giant STMicroelectronics is currently sampling its Generation-4 A/V decoder chip for set-top boxes and home media servers to key customers.

IBC 2011. Hall 1. Stand No. 1.A29. France Telecom’s global broadcast distribution and playout subsidiary GlobeCast and its media management systems provider NETIA will use this year’s show to highlight the ability of broadcasters to ingest content locally, manage, adapt and regionalise their media.

IBC 2011. Hall 1, Stand No.1.F34.  DEV Systemtechnik, the  German manufacturer of radio frequency distribution over coaxial cable and fibre for satellite, cable, and broadcast television headends, will debut its Core Function Products series.

IBC 2011 Hall. 5 Stand 5.A17. Thomson Video Networks, the headend and network management vendor spun-out of the former Thomson Grass Valley, is bringing its new convergent TV and over-the-top solution, as well as a new Multichannel HD encoder for DTH satellite services, to the RAI Centre.

IBC 2011 Hall 2 Stand 2.C50. Calling itself the “Creator of Real High Definition”, NTT Electronics Digital Video Business Group is adding some depth to its up-market HD contribution encoders with the introduction of the XVE9300 two channel synchronised Full HD Stereoscopic 3D AVC/H.264 contribution encoder. The two independently compressed channels are synchronised and multiplexed in [...]

IBC 2010 – Hall. 11 Stand E72. Media Execs shopping for their new 3D enabled Home Theater, should drop by stand E72 in Hall 11, and have a look at what is billed as the ‘World’s First Demo of DLP in 4K’.

IBC 2010 – Hall 2, Stand C39. Not everything changed for the good with the arrival of digital television. Set-top-boxes took several seconds to change from one channel to the next, setting off a drive to faster silicon and software to replicate the old fashioned zapping experience.