Europe Ready to
Deliver HD Content to Asian and US Broadcasters
(13 April 2004) Kingston inmedia
and Tandberg Television have collaborated in trials to demonstrate how US and
Asian broadcasters can benefit from mobile and fixed high definition (HD)
contribution of live events in Europe, such as sports, news and concerts. The
trials combined Kingston’s expertise in satellite and fibre delivery and
occasional video facilities with Tandberg Television’s new HD encoding and
professional receiver solutions. Intelsat space segment was utilised to deliver
HD content to Japanese and US broadcasting companies.
For both the American and Japanese trials, Kingston used Tandberg
Television’s E5780 HD encoders and TT1280 HD professional receivers to
deliver content via 42 MHz of space segment using the Intelsat 901 satellite.
The collaboration between Intelsat, Kingston and Tandberg Television
successfully proved the capability to deliver HD content and also demonstrated
interoperability between different broadcast standards.
The trials
with Japan used turn-around content from the Euro 1080 on Astra 19.2 as well as
from digital tape sources. The signal was then compressed into a 38 Mb/s
transport stream using Tandberg‘s E5780. Kingston uplinked the locally
encoded HD signals from its SNG trucks before downlinking the signal at its
London-based digital broadcast facility, where it was then passed onto fibre
circuits to Japan. A Tandberg TT1280 HD professional receiver was used to
receive and decode the content, alongside a Mitsubishi MH-2210D decoder,
demonstrating interoperability between European and Japanese standards.
(source: Tandberg TV, Kingston inmedia)