IBC 2011: Imagine Products Preview

2011 IBC Show Preview
Imagine Communications
Stand 3.A15j

Imagine Communications, a provider of advanced digital video solutions, will demonstrate solutions for TabletTV streaming, including its new ICE Streaming System, for streaming live multi-format video to multiple tablets.

Imagine’s ICE Streaming System is a new network-side transcoding video processing platform that allows multi-screen service providers to deliver uncompromised video quality across multiple devices, with unmatched compression efficiency. A fully integrated, high-density solution, the ICE Streaming System boasts support for up to 1,000 stream-aligned, multi-profile transcodes from a single carrier-class blade system platform.  The ICE Streaming System is based on Imagine’s widely deployed multi-codec, multi-rate, multi-resolution video processing platform ICE Video Platform, which serves thousands of live streams to over half of all North American digital cable subscribers.

The ICE System combines leading picture quality and unlimited scalability with full support for integrated fragmentation, encryption and HTTP streaming, allowing TV Everywhere service providers to deploy multi-screen services on the same high availability platforms used to deliver industry-leading HD and SD broadcast transcoding. The distributed architecture enables an unlimited number of output profiles for any source stream with guaranteed alignment. A key differentiator of the ICE Video Platform’s hybrid architecture for TabletTV is Motion Adaptive Pixel Accurate (MAPA) de-interlacing technology, designed to preserve the highest picture quality for live video to the tablet’s progressive screen.