Harris Broadcast, looking to make a splash in the TV everywhere and over-the-top sector of the media industry, acquired San Diego-based Imagine Communications, the company announced today. The acquisition allows Harris to update its Selenio product with adaptive bit rate transcoding, a neccessity in the OTT and TV everywhere space.
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New Harris A/V ‘Box’ Merges Baseband, IP
Dubbed Selenio, the multifunction, rack-mounted unit uses modules to perform a variety of tasks — frame synchronization, video conversion, encoding, decoding, multiplexing and demultiplexing. It also give users a pathway to IP networking, while saving space and power, Harris says.
