Professional IRDs
Commonly found in radio, television, Cable and satellite broadcasting facilities, the IRD is generally used for the reception of contribution feeds that are intended for re-broadcasting. The IRD is the interface between a receiving satellite dish or Telco networks and a broadcasting facility video/audio infrastructure.
Professional IRDs have various features that consumer IRDs lack such as:
- SDI outputs.
- ASI inputs / outputs.
- TSoIP inputs.
- AES/EBU Audio decoding.
- VBI reinsertion.
- WSS data and pass through.
- Transport stream demultiplexing.
- Genlock input.
- Frame synchronization of digital video output to analogue input.
- Closed captions and VITS/ITS/VITC Insertion.
- Video test pattern generator.
- Remote management over LAN/WAN.
- GPI interface - For sending external alarm triggers.
- Rack mountable.
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