Belgian Broadcaster Selects ATEME For DSNG Navy Contribution

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May 6, 2011 10:17 AM

Radio Tlvision Belge de la communaut Franaise (RTBF), Belgium's national French-speaking broadcaster, has choosen ATEME 's encoding stage for video grant from its DSNG (Digital Satellite News Gathering) vehicles.

The ATEME deployment is segment of RTBF's continuing emigration to HD and will beginning with two DSNG vehicles.

RTBF evaluated assorted encoders and choosen ATEME's since it future proofs the broadcaster as it a day transitions to 4:2:2 10-bit H.264 encoding and moreover offers a high level of interoperability. Interoperability with encoders and decoders from a accumulation of vendors was the tip care since RTBF often needs to meet halfway with broadcasters in adjacent countries, inclusive France, Germany and the Netherlands, mentioned RTBF announce operative Kevin Preumont.

"We tested an ATEME grant span with apparatus from American, European and Japanese vendors, and it never failed," he said. "This is really critical for us since you are unaware that apparatus the colleagues will use for heavenly body transmission."

An critical aspect of this interoperability was ATEME's encouragement of BISS (Basic Interoperable Scrambling System), that was created and is promoted by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), and right away is being at large adopted for heavenly body contribution. This will make it simpler for RTBF when it contributes cinema for events announce globally, such as the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix.

Like a few other broadcasters, RTBF will not use 4:2:2 10-bit H.264 encoding immediately, but skeleton to do so in the future. The MPEG-4 4:2:2 10-bit form enables broadcasters, pay TV operators and calm owners to sustain the highest high quality via the prolongation and grant process, avoiding artifacts such as shade draining and smearing. The capability of the ATEME encoders to encouragement 4:2:2 10-bit H.264 encoding gives RTBF a high level of future proofing.

ATEME's use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for its stage moreover gave RTBF certainty that it would be able to develop to soak up any changes in standards or new encoding techniques.