The newest version of Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc.’s encoder gained the approval of broadcasting engineers as the best encoding solution at the 2009 NAB Show. The Fujitsu IP-9500 4.0 was lauded for its leading-edge feature set, including the ability to simultaneously transmit high-definition (HD) signals using 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, allowing broadcasters to efficiently and cost-effectively utilize either format based on their existing infrastructures.

The Fujitsu IP-9500 is the industry’s leading AVC/H.264 encoding solution for real-time broadcast quality contribution content. The IP-9500’s exceptional picture quality at low bit rates and low-latency enables HD satellite news gathering (SNG) and live events transmission using existing broadcast satellite infrastructure. In addition to the simultaneous 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 transmission, the IP-9500 4.0 integrates a cutting-edge process for maintaining non-degraded 4:2:0 chroma resolution to preserve picture quality throughout the entire communications link.

The IP-9500 4.0 also features DVB-S and DVB-S2 modulation capabilities, eliminating the need for separate modulators when broadcasting via satellite. Other enhancements include advanced MPEG-4 AVC encoding for real-time DVB and IP transmission of HD/SD media at lowest possible bit rate for any given video sequence, high performance H.264 compression algorithms which reduce bitrate and bandwidth requirement by more than 50 percent compared to MPEG-2 systems, and a full-duplex VoIP intercom to provide interactive communications between encoder and decoder locations.

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