IBC Daily News |
| by Catherine Riley |
Adtec Digital has unveiled a range of new MPEG playback, storage and streaming technology. Part of this new generation of equipment is the Duet MPEG-2 Commercial Inserter, which has been chosen by European operator UPC to run in its cable commercial insertion system. "UPC chose Adtec because of the quality," said Dianna de Bruyn, president of Media Choice, which provides UPC's advertising content. "They also liked the side effect of saving money by buying Adtec." The Duet unites a number of elements of a broadcast delivery system in a 1U chassis. It boasts single-frame switching accuracy, supports closed-caption signals during breaks and can override different breaks, for geographical locations, with different languages. Easy to install, Duet also features a front-panel display, single-channel architecture and is said to have "the highest MTBF in the industry". The Duet-SDI commercial inserter is, like the Duet, compatible with both broadcast and cable digital platforms. It switches between SDI with embedded AES/EBU audio and scheduled MPEG-2 spots as required, providing concurrent SDI and analogue output synchronously. Adtec has also unveiled the Edje-2000, its first real-time MPEG encoder. The Edje-2000 is capable of converting baseband or uncompressed digital video and audio into an MPEG-2 transport or program stream. "The Edje-2000 will offer economies of scale simply unavailable before its introduction," said Kevin Ancelin, vice president of products and business development at Adtec. "It provides all the amenities of encoders costing five times its price and four times its size." Measuring 4" by 10", the Edje-2000 consumes less than 12W of power and is capable of supporting DVB-ASI and IP platforms concurrently. It is targeted at satellite, broadcast and cable contribution, cable distribution, IP surveillance, distance learning and medical applications. A modified version of the Edje has also been incorporated into Pioneer Electronics' PureVision plasma displays. PureVision's expansion slots were adapted to accept Adtec's Edje digital video player, increasing the future capacity of the products by making them compatible with DVI, FireWire (1394), TCP/IP and any other analogue or digital data signal. Stand 1.401 |