Harmonic said its ProView 7100 is the industry's first single-rack, multi-format, integrated receiver-decoder (IRD), transcoder and MPEG stream processor to support the HEVC standard.
As part of an end-to-end HEVC-based video transmission solution offered by Harmonic, the ProView 7100 enables video content and service providers to decode HEVC compressed streams of up to 1080p60 resolution, maximizing bandwidth efficiency for broadcast service delivery while maintaining pristine video quality.
Bart Spriester, SVP for video products at Harmonic, said: "The ability to decode HEVC compressed streams is becoming important for video content and service providers as they prepare to deliver high-quality, bandwidth-intensive services like ultra HD and 4K”.
"As the world's first IRD platform capable of decoding HEVC content, the ProView 7100 continues to prove that it's the best solution for content reception applications, providing TV operators with the flexibility, scalability, video compression efficiency and low total-cost-of-ownership they need to cost-effectively deliver video offerings with amazing quality now and in the future,” said Spriester.
The HEVC decoding capabilities are available to new and existing ProView 7100 customers via a simple software update and license key.
Harmonic's end-to-end HEVC video transmission solution includes the Electra X advanced media processor and Electra XVM virtualized media processor.