Thomson to Demo 4K OTT at CES

At CES in Las Vegas, Thomson Video Networks and MStar Semiconductor will demonstrate delivery of over-the-top (OTT) content to connected TVs via HEVC. The demonstration will combine Thomson's ViBE VS7000 multiscreen encoding/transcoding platform with MStar's 4K system-on-a-chip (SoC), which provides native HEVC decoding in connected TV sets.MStar's latest SoC is designed for high-end connected TV sets, and is currently being embedded in the products of several consumer display manufacturers to enable decoding of HEVC content streams in resolutions up to UltraHD.