Opal does use Divicom encoders.....................
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HDTV Pioneer WRAL Taps Thomcast, DiviCom for Encoders
8/17/99 Raleigh, NC?s WRAL, the first commercially licensed station to transmit in digital in the US has selected encoding systems from Thomcast (Southwick, MA) and DiviCom, (Milpitas, CA).
Previously the station had been using an encoder from Mitsubishi, which, along with Tektronix, produced some of the earliest HDTV encoders on the market. The transaction also involves the sale of encoders to WRAL?s sister station, WRAZ-TV (Durham, NC).
Thomcast?s CDS Unit will supply the stations with DiviCom?s MV-400 HDTV and MV-40 SDTV encoders, Thomcast?s Pearl PSIP Manager and Opal Data Broadcasting Gateway, and integration and installation services. Thomcast also will supply WRAL with an HDTV encoding system to be used for contribution feeds.
This is not the first time Thomcast and DiviCom have collaborated in providing DTV systems to stations. DiviCom teamed with Comark, a division of Thomcast, in providing encoding systems to LIN Television (Providence, RI) in 1998 and in April 1999, formally announced a strategic partnership that makes Comark the primary distributor and integrator of DiviCom ATSC products to the broadcast market.
WRAL-TV began digital transmissions on July 23, 1996 and is owned by Capitol Broadcasting Co. (Raleigh, NC).
Edited by Tom Butts
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