Prime selects Ericsson video chip
July 23, 2013
Australian media company Prime has selected Ericsson’s latest video processing platform to deliver new channels and improved efficiency.
Prime is the first publicly announced customer in the Asia Pacific region to deploy Ericsson’s AVP 4000 compression platform, which is powered by the company’s first in-house programmable video processing chip. The announcement builds upon Ericsson’s presence as the leader in video compression technologies in Australia, where it provides systems for 4 out of 5 national TV networks plus other noteworthy regional networks in addition to Prime.
Prime will deploy the AVP 4000 in both MPEG-4 AVC contribution applications as well as MPEG-2 for digital video broadcasting. The AVP 4000’s first-class encoding capabilities enable Prime to optimise its workflow and minimise operational costs while delivering a high level of resilience.
Ericsson’s AVP 4000 high-performance compression platform eases integration, expansion, re-purposing, training, repair and upgrades, considerably lowering the overall cost of ownership by addressing all applications, codecs, resolutions and profiles. It offers the highest performance and broadest capability in the industry on a single platform across all applications, from SD to HD, 1080p50/60, 3DTV and Ultra High Definition TV (UHDTV), and all codecs, including MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC and JPEG2000, with 4:2:0 and 4:2:2, 8-bit and 10-bit all supported.