  Imagine Communications, a leading innovator in advanced digital video solutions and member of the newly formed DASH Promoters Group, on Wednesday announced a system upgrade to their award-winning ICE Video Platform. The new platform upgrade provides system operators with a single unified appliance for processing HD and SD IPTV streams as well as Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) streams for multiscreen delivery.
Built with Imagine’s industry-leading ICE-Q Advanced Video Compression, the high density platform doesn’t sacrifice on picture quality or reliability features. Full decode/encode with metadata pull-through on all channels enables optimized scene change detection while making full utilization of original encode parameters. Also introduced are granular PID-level redundancy mechanisms, enabling new levels of service protection, both upstream and downstream, from the ICE Video Platform transcoder.
“We believe in convergence across the network and are building platforms and solutions to facilitate that transition,” said Imagine's CEO Richard Stanfield. “Imagine has always led the market with best picture quality and system reliability, and with this upgrade we’re bringing those core attributes together with high density, low power consumption and converged service delivery – every screen, one box.” |