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April 12th, 2012

Vela Research... @ NAB 2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Decoders)


[SatNews] Vela Research® has announced the newest addition to its family of...

...high performance multi-screen, multi-format decoders, the CineWave HD Continuum. Vela’s CineWaveHD Continuum decoder, a very compact, turnkey solution based upon Vela’s Emmy award winning video processing technology, using a System on IC design to eliminate the need for a host PC. The Continuum enables high performance, continuous decoding, with very high quality video at extremely low bitrates—and is ideally suited for live events and streaming applications—as well as providing a price competitive solution for traditional OTT, Broadcast, Cable, VOD, video distribution, education, defense and healthcare applications. The Continuum is machined from aircraft-grade aluminum, is DC-powered, comes in an attractive 1.375” x 5” x 8” form factor – and is designed to operate in a plug-and-play, non-stop operation mode. At-a-glance the CineWave HD Continuum system includes these and a wide array of other features required in the most demanding user environments today:

  • Real-time decoding of HD or SD H.264 (AVC)
  • Real-time decoding HD or SD MPEG-2 Main Profile @ Main Level and @ High Level
  • Real-time decoding of VC1, as well as MPEG-4 Part 2
  • PAL, NTSC & Cinema formats
  • DVB/ASI input
  • Closed Caption support EIA-708B and 608B
  • Genlock (bilevel and trilevel sync)
  • Dolby® Digital bitstream pass-through audio
  • MPEG1 Layer 2
  • AAC LC and AAC HE
  • Intuitive, easy to use web based graphical user interface
  • SD to HD or HD to SD conversion
  • Hardware based video scaling
  • IP output over UDP or RTP
To schedule an invitation to experience a demo of the UltraStream HD Encoder, or for a test drive, at NAB 2012, contact Kevin McDowell.