Tiernan Communications TE6000: designed for digital SNG; available in 4:2:0 or 4:2:2 configurations; supports the new EBU BISS Conditional Access Protocol;

MPEG-2 video and audio compression, the current standard for digital broadcasting, has been a strong point of stability in designing and building digital broadcasting systems. However, new algorithms are emerging that are poised to create a fundamental change in broadcast video compression.

Integrating noise reduction and video preprocessing functions with the hardware that performs video compression offers key performance advantages as well as the obvious savings of rack space, power and cooling support. Encoding noise is a waste of bandwidth. Removing noise enables improved video delivery at lower bit rates.

DVEO, a spinoff of Computer Modules Inc. (CMI), recently introduced the HD Maestro, a real-time, PC-based encoding workstation that processes HD into an MPEG-2 stream at 50 Mbps. HD Maestro runs on a Dell Power Edge 7150 server and uses LSI Logic's HDTVxpress compression technology to create MPEG-2 streams at 50 Mbps.

Philips LDK 23HS mkII: expands the features of its predecessor the LDK23HS camera, offering exact capture of same-minute details and the ability to be

Thomson Broadcast DBE 4140: performs local program MPEG-2 encoding, receives an MPEG-2 transport stream containing the national program through its ASI