TANDBERG Television's New Professional Receivers Smooth the Digital Transition and Improve Programming Distribution Efficiency

TANDBERG Television,  is launching a new professional integrated receiver decoder (IRD) range which will be on display in its booth #SU4210 at the NAB Show (Las Vegas, April 14-17, 2008). Optimized for specific high volume video distribution applications, the new RX8300 series will simplify content acquisition for cable, satellite and telco operators in the all-digital future of TV broadcasting.

Both the RX8310 Distribution Receiver and the RX8320 ATSC Broadcast Receiver include a mixture of standard features to meet the majority of needs in their target applications, with the flexibility to add advanced features should the operator require them. Each variant provides an RF demodulator combined with industry standard ASI transport stream input, for network delivery flexibility. Transport stream output is provided as a standard feature for content turnaround into digital cable, satellite and telco broadcast networks. The RX8300 range has the capability to provide single or multi-service descrambling, as well as multi-format MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC 4:2:0 video decoding. Additionally, high definition (HD) services are down-converted and output as standard definition (SD) video; providing a simple and cost-effective route to video distribution into analog broadcast systems or for service monitoring.

"These new receivers deliver the high quality and reliability on which broadcasters and service operators alike depend, and have come to know and trust, from TANDBERG Television compression products. They build on our field proven compression product portfolio, and our in-depth knowledge and experience of the widest range of broadcast applications, to deliver affordable solutions for content distribution to cable, telco and satellite head-ends," said Roger Bolton, EVP of Compression Systems at TANDBERG Television. "The RX8300 series enables highly efficient content distribution systems, and a simple transition solution, for operators to provide ongoing service delivery for analog television subscribers while supporting the increasing move to digital HDTV content distribution."