Beijing – Broadcom Corporation, a provider of semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, announced on March 21 that Inspur Group, Shandong Cable Network's primary systems integrator, has selected Broadcom's high definition (HD) set-top box system-on-chip (SoC) to enable deployment of cable services to millions of China cable subscribers. Inpsur's set-top boxes will be powered by Broadcom's BCM7583 HD SoC. Inspur's set-top box design marks the first deployment of the … [Read more...] about China’s Inspur Group employs Broadcom SoC for cable services
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SES to pioneer first Ultra HD transmission in new standard at SES Industry Days
Luxembourg - SES, together with partners Harmonic and Broadcom Corporation, has pioneered the first Ultra HD transmission in the new HEVC standard live from an ASTRA satellite at 19.2 degrees East. The HEVC standard features an up to 50% encoding efficiency improvement, compared to previous test broadcasts in MPEG-4 AVC (H.264). The end-to-end demonstration, which was presented at the SES Industry Days in Luxembourg, used Harmonic’s ProMedia Xpress and a HEVC decoder reference-design … [Read more...] about SES to pioneer first Ultra HD transmission in new standard at SES Industry Days
