Harmonic’s Rhozet Carbon Coder to support Panasonic AVC-Intra HD technology

February 20, 2008 – Harmonic has announced that its Rhozet Carbon Coder video transcoding solution will soon support Panasonic’s AVC-Intra high-definition compression technology.

The AVC-Intra compression scheme complies with the MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) open standard, provides 10bit 4:2:2 full-raster compression at the same bit-rate as DVCPRO HD and delivers DVCPRO HD at half the bit-rate.

“The AVC-Intra format is fast gaining ground with broadcasters, offering significantly better compression efficiency than older codec facilities yet maintaining very high picture quality,” said David Trescott, Vice President of the Rhozet Business Unit at Harmonic.  “Support for AVC-Intra confirms our commitment to deliver the format support our customers require, for broadcast, broadband or mobile applications.”

Rhozet Carbon Coder will provide real-time transcoding of high-definition material using the AVC-Intra codec as a standard feature from April of this year.