Toner Cable D9858 Advanced Receiver Transcoder - Manual

D9858
Advanced Receiver Transcoder
969 Horsham Road l Horsham, Pennsylvania 19044 USA l Phone: 215-675-2053 Fax: 215-675-7543 l [email protected]
Description
The PowerVu
® Model D8958 Advanced Receiver Transcoder provides the ability to deliver MPEG-4 HD services to MPEG-2 CATV
headends. The Model D9858 receiver extends the distribution options for MPEG-4 AVC HD from solely MPEG-4 environments to
existing MPEG-2 networks. Support for simultaneous dual-channel decryption and transcoding provides the advantage of density for
locations requiring more than just a single channel. The D9858 can be utilized to provide a down-converted Standard Definition
MPEG-2 program instead of one or both of the available HD transcoded programs. Video and two audio outputs are available for
analog down-conversion for one of the decrypted incoming MPEG-4 HD programs.
Digital Program Distribution
The ASI and MPEGoIP transport outputs are individually configurable and provide the capability of carrying up to two decrypted
transcoded programs for digital tier distribution. This helps the compressed video programs to be efficiently distributed to subscribers
equipped with digital set-top boxes. Digital audio passthrough is synchronized to the transcoded program output. Compliant PSI/SI
regeneration provides integration into a digital tier distribution network for two transcoded programs.
Digital Program Mapping
Digital Program Mapping allows programmers to "transparently" substitute programs at the uplink. It maintains predictable and com-
pliant transport output during service replacement, Network Information Table (NIT) retune, channel changes, including force tunes.
This feature remaps the PID information from the primary service to an alternate service allowing downstream devices to continue to
operate without headend operator intervention. This helps ensure availability of alternate programming in the digital tier.
Digital Ad-Insertion
Digital Program Insertion (DPI) information is available along with the video and audio PIDs (Packet Identifiers) for external ad inser-
tion in compressed digital format on both transcoded programs.
Features
• Four L-Band inputs
• DVB-S Demodulatoion for QPSK
• DVB-S2 Demodulation for QPSK and 8PSK
• PowerVu conditional access with DES or DVB descram-
bling
• Supports Basic Interoperable Scrambling System(BISS)
conditional access
• Decryption and transcoding of up to two programs for digi-
tal transport output
• Program transcoding to support down-conversion of an
MPEG-4 HD program to an MPEG-2 SD program
• PSI/SI regeneration for both programs
• 4:2:0 High Definition 1080i and 720p video decoding
• AFD support for down-conversion of a decoded HD pro-
gram with aspect ratio conversion
• Dolby ® Digital (AC-3) audio decoding
• Closed Captioning passthrough of EIA-608 and EIA-708
for transcoded programs
• Audio passthrough synchronization for transcoded
programs
• Additional ASI outputs for redundancy
• MPEGoIP output for network connectivity
• DVB subtitle passthrough with transcode programs
• Contact closure terminals for simple alarm monitoring
• SNMP for setup, control and monitoring
• Field upgradeable software
• Front panel LCD for control & monitoring
• Web browser interface for easy setup, control and
monitoring
• Uplink addressable decoder output control (VBI, audio
routing, DPI, and ASI output)
• DMTF cue tone & cue trigger outputs for ad-insertion
• Digital Program Mapping providing uplink control for
service replacements in blackout areas