Harmonic IRD Gets HEVC Support

Harmonic's (NASDAQ:HLIT) ProView 7100 now supports HEVC. The single-rack, multiformat integrated receiver-decoder (IRD), transcoder and MPEG stream processor is designed to enable video content and service providers to decode HEVC compressed streams up to 1080p60 resolutions.

The 1RU platform is designed for SD/HD MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC and HEVC decoding, in addition to MPEG-2 and AVC transcoding. It also supports AVC HD and HEVC 4:2:2 10-bit decoding up to 1080p60. The HEVC decoding capabilities are available to new and existing ProView 7100 customers via a software update and license key.

Harmonic's end-to-end HEVC video transmission solution includes the Electra X media processor and Electra XVM virtualized media processor. Both media processors feature the company's PURE Compression Engine for real-time encoding of SD, HD and 4K/UHD media, integrated branding and graphics, and transport stream playout.