Harmonic (www.harmonicinc.com) announced that Japanese cable TV operator EHIME CATV has deployed Harmonic’s Electra™ X3 advanced media processor to support a trial of the country’s first live, full-frame 4K Ultra HD (UHD) channel.
Utilizing the highly flexible and scalable Electra X3 media processor to encode UHD content using the HEVC Main 10 codec, EHIME CATV can deliver real-time 2160p60 video to subscribers’ set-top boxes (STBs) at low bit rates, while maintaining video quality targets.
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