IBC 2007 (Stand 1.131)
Building on its experience in providing technology for SES Americom’s new IP Prime IPTV service and AccessIT’s digital cinema project, International Datacasting Corporation (IDC), will be launching its new product line ups for satellite delivery for IPTV and Digital Cinema applications. IDC will also unveil its plans for 3D digital cinema during a workshop session called Making Movies in 3D, to be held in Room L on Sunday (September 9) at 15:15.
IDC will be showing a complete IPTV headend solution as well as a family of interoperable DVB-S/S2 receivers for the secure and efficient delivery of both live and on demand content over satellite. The product line features receiver redundancy for fail-safe operation of large numbers of channels over multiple transponders, MPEG2 or MPEG4 AVC encoding, a choice of industry standard decryption/CAS options, transport stream transcoding to IP and built-in IP multicasting for ease of integration with Telco and CATV IP distribution networks.
For Digital Cinema the complete end-to-end solution allows for the delivery of both file encoded movies as well as live events for digital cinema and e-cinema applications. Offering multiple layers of encryption/CAS for extra security, built-in “on the fly” forward error correction using IDC’s flagship Datacast XD software and DVB-S2 8PSK or 16APSK delivery.
The Canadian vendor with a European subsidiary based in The Netherlands will also launch several new Satellite receivers. The 4100 series features a high performance CPU to provide the extra high processing needed to achieve throughput data rates in excess of 160 Mbps. The new DUO series of dual carrier DVB/IP receivers – developed partly with the assistance of the European Space Agency – is capable of receiving two DVB-S/S2 satellite carriers at the same time to achieve extra reliability or high data throughputs in excess of 275 Mbps.
The SFX Pro Video DVB-S/S2 receivers feature hardware decoding of MPEG2 and MPEG4 AVC SD and HD video in a single 1 RU high 19-inch rack configuration complete with an integrated hard drive for drop and insert store and forward applications. The product features a choice of IP, DVB-S or S2 satellite and ASI inputs and a multiple outputs that include IP, ASI, component video, HDMI and HD-SDI. It also includes a new transport stream to IP transcoding capability for IPTV applications.