Thomson Video Networks today unveiled the ViBE EM4000 multichannel HD encoder, the latest addition to the company's range of MPEG broadcast reference-grade encoding solutions. Incorporating a substantially more powerful evolution of Thomson's renowned Mustang compression engine, the ViBE EM4000's performance delivers significant operational cost savings through better use of satellite or terrestrial bandwidth.
Offering a significant increase in compression efficiency at launch, the ViBE EM4000 multichannel HD encoder achieves its performance through improved motion estimation and enriched encoding logic. With its market-leading HD performance, the ViBE EM4000 typically allows users to add an extra channel to a transponder without reducing picture quality, or opt for improved quality with the same number of channels. Designed for evolution, the ViBE EM4000 supports future formats including 1080p and 3D, and provides continuous efficiency improvement through further development of the platform.
"The ViBE EM4000 offers a notable improvement over all previous HD AVC encoding solutions," said Christophe Delahousse, president, Thomson Video Networks. "Users currently running six channels on a transponder will be able to add a seventh, for example."
Scheduled to ship in the coming months, the ViBE EM4000 multichannel HD encoder can be deployed as a standalone encoder or as part of a headend infrastructure with multiplexers and a network management system. The compact 1RU unit combines improved energy efficiency with its enhanced performance, together with the capacity to integrate external functions such as DVB subtitling.
