Provides Real-Time MPEG-2 Encoding and Transmission of HD

JVC Professional Products Company continues its mission in providing affordable, high quality ProHD products to market with the introduction of the SA-HD50U HDV MPEG-2 encoder/decoder. This economical and efficient encoder/decoder is ideal for broadcast networks, television stations and post-production houses.
This advanced SA-HD50U encoder/decoder takes the uncompressed HD-SDI signals and encodes them into a compressed HDV720P 19Mbps or HDV1080i 25Mbps stream in real time, which can be recorded directly onto an HDV720P (19.7Mbps) or HDV1080i (25Mbps) studio deck, or transferred directly to a disk based recording or editing system.
The SA-HD50U Encoder/Decoder comes equipped with a number of multi-format interfaces, including HD-SDI with embedded audio, IEEE 1394 and Analog Component connections. Input/Output capabilities include HD-SDI 720/60P/50P and 1080/60i/50i. IEEE 1394 interface includes 720/60P/50P/30P/25P/24P and 1080/60i/50i.
“The SA-HD50U encoder is truly a ground-breaking product for broadcast and post production,” said Craig Yanagi, National Marketing Manager, Creation Products, JVC PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS COMPANY. “Being able to encode HD-SDI signals and record to an HDV recorder significantly reducing equipment and power consumption costs where larger, more expensive and less efficient products are currently being used. We anticipate this encoder/decoder to be an ideal component in HD conversion and delivery systems for broadcast stations as well as post production facilities.”
The SA-HD50U has low power consumption and is small in size allowing for mounting in restricted space such as news vans and helicopters. The encoder facilitates efficient record and playback, economical archiving of news footage through use of the BR-HD50U as well as broadcast quality delayed program playback capabilities at 19Mbps.
The SA-HD50U encoder coupled with the BR-HD50U recorder/player spools audio and video content from varied HD sources to a native HDV editing system. The two components also provide editing professionals with economical HDV distribution and archiving to inexpensive media formats. The BR-HD50U ProHD VTR can store up to 276 minutes of HD programming on a single economical LA-DV276PRO standard size Professional DV cassette.
The suggested list price for the SA-HD50U is $8,995 (Tentative). Delivery is expected to begin in November 2006.