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Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. revealed their Fujitsu IP-9500e was the exclusive broadcast contribution video encoder used by CBS News to deliver its coverage of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in HD. The IP-9500e enabled CBS News to send high-quality HD video feeds from the convention floors as well as Investco Field to its new HD Control Room 47 in New York with exceptionally low encode/decode latency. The highly compressed HD video stream from the IP-9500e enabled multiplexing 10 to 14 HD video channels and simultaneously transmitted them back to the CBS Control Room over terrestrial IP networks with bandwidths traditionally associated with standard-defiintion feeds. This deployment continues the CBS News rollout of HD for contribution feeds. The network first used the IP-9500e to broadcast the 2008 Presidential State of the Union Address in HD—marking the first time CBS used HD MPEG-4 AVC compression for a network contribution feed—and CBS News also uses Fujitsu encoders for HD SNG as part of the Evening News with Katie Couric. The network also plans to use the IP-9500e to broadcast its coverage of the upcoming presidential debates and election coverage in November.
| Political Party Conventions Get HD'd By Fujitsu For CBS News... | October 07, 2008 |
