Business Wire
11/30/98 Broadcast Engineering
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Business The HD-1, National Mobile Television's all-digital, high-definition mobile truck, uses 10 Fujinon lenses - seven 66X and three 20X - with Sony HDC-700 and HDC-750 high-definition video cameras. In a shootout Madison Square Garden conducted, the lenses exhibited the best image quality. The HD-1 was first used at a National Hockey League game between the New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers, which was broadcast on the MSG network in the 1080i digital standard.
TCI Media Services of the Monterey Bay, the advertising arm of the TCI Pacific West Division, has selected JVC's 4:2:2 component DIGITAL-S as its in-house editing format. Archiving raw footage economically was a consideration in moving to the digital format. The package included a BR-D85 recorder with pre-read, two BR-D750 editors and a BR-D40 recorder that docks to an Ikegami HL-45 camera for field use. To create effects, the BR-D85 is run through a Pinnacle 601 Aladdin.
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Snell & Wilcox will provide video and audio processing equipment for DirecTV's new Los Angeles Broadcast Center (LABC) in a deal valued at more than $2.3 million. DirecTV will purchase more than 150 MDD2000 and MDD500 digital video decoders and several hundred Kudos IQ modules, including frame synchronizers, audio digitization and delay, embedded audio inserters, and audio sub-frame routing.
CBS has chosen the Mitsubishi/Tektronix line of second-generation HDTV compression products for terrestrial transmission and return of contribution programming to CBS' New York Broadcast Center. CBS will use the MH-1100EL 4:2:0 HDTV encoder at four stations that have committed to transmit HDTV this month. The full-frame encoder outputs a 4:2:2 compressed signal at up to 100Mb/s.
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Adherent Systems has signed an OEM deal to supply DiviCom real-time digital video monitoring technology. The deal allows the functionality of Adherent's SV970 Stream View multistream real-time monitor to be integrated with the DiviCom THESYS network management system. THESYS provides complete digital video facility management in conjunction with DiviCom MPEG-2 compression systems.
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The ISIS Group will design and manufacture more than 100 RTUs for the DirecTV Los Angeles Broadcast Center (LABC). The RTUs will provide for switching between pairs of incoming video and audio signals from satellite and fiber-optic signal feeds at the LABC. Each TRU is a multilevel 2x1 switcher, consisting of a single channel of video, four channels of audio and five general-purpose interface inputs.
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Paxson Communications has ordered Magni Systems AVM-510T automated video monitoring systems for 40 of the 87 stations in its PAX TV network. Paxson's engineering group in Clearwater, FL, will remotely monitor transmitter signals at the 40 stations.
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NTL has secured satellite service contracts from Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) and the new Littlewoods/Granada joint-venture home shopping channel to uplink digital TV news, entertainment and home shopping channels to the first shared multiplex on the new Astra 2A satellite. The eight-year deal with TBS will see NTL supply a turnkey solution for the end-to-end distribution of three channels: CNN, the Cartoon Network and TNT. NTL will uplink Turner's new digital TV broadcasts to Astra 2A for broadcast direct-to-home across the UK from a common multiplex open to other broadcasters transmitting on the same transponder.
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Philips Digital Video Systems will supply DVB/MPEG-2 compression equipment to Canal+ Nederland, the Dutch arm of one of Europe's pay-TV operators. TokenMux and SimulCrypt satellite broadcast systems were delivered for the August launch. Canal+ Nederland will use two systems uplinked in the Netherlands and one via a SDH link in Luxembourg. Philips will produce DST 5816 MPEG2-DVB compatible receivers for end-users.
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DirecTV has signed commercial programming distribution agreements with 10 leading restaurant/bar chains. The restaurant chains will offer DirecTV programming in more than 500 locations nationwide. As part of the agreements, DirecTV will support the commercial establishments via marketing and advertising campaigns. The restaurants chains include Chili's, Macaroni Grill, On the Border, Hooters, El Torito, Chi-Chi's and Bertucci's.
Harris Corporation has delivered its first two high-definition ATSC MPEG-2 encoding systems. Both KGO-TV, an ABC-owned and operated station in San Francisco, and WBNS-TV, a CBS affiliate in Columbus, OH, have received Harris Flexicoders fully configured for high-definition television. Flexicoder is capable of HDTV and SDTV encoding in both interlace- and progressive-scan formats. The KGO unit will operate at 720p, and the WBNS unit will be operated at 1080i. The Flexicoder will encode all 18 ATSC formats. The Flexicoder was developed by Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, with input from Harris. The system incorporates a number of interfaces to ensure compatibility with current and future components in the evolving DTV air chain.
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