Tandberg Debuts Transcoder

Tandberg Television has announced a new cable HD program transcoder designed to harness the bandwidth efficiencies of MPEG-4 AVC HD and DVB-S2 satellite distribution. The RX8250 is designed to cost-effectively convert MPEG-4 AVC HD content into MPEG-2 HD streams at the cable headend. The RX8250 was launched at the HD World Conference and Exposition in New York this week.

The RX8250 is part of an end-to-end Tandberg cable HD distribution solution, designed to enable content providers to carry six to eight MPEG-4 AVC HDTV channels on a satellite transponder. The RX8250 is intended to overcome the legacy barrier to MPEG-4 AVC HD content for operators whose cable networks have a large installed base of MPEG-2 HDTV set-top boxes by enabling efficient transcoding of MPEG-4 AVC/DVB-S2 distributed content into MPEG-2 HD.