Temporary channel sharing that supports the creation of an initial ATSC 3.0 station known as the “Lighthouse Station.”  The Lighthouse Station will be the first to provide ATSC 3.0 services in a market and will have its ATSC 1.0 signal carried by other partners in the business agreement.

During this transition or cable company needs to have the ability to cherry-pick the ATSC1 programming and convert it to IP so we can ingest it to our Cable Tv local tv channel lineup. Can this device have the ability to cherry-pick ATSC subchannels and encapsulate them to IP MPEG2 multicast streams?

Looking for a solution for multicast IPTV. Want RF tuner for over-the-air, inputs from HDMI (computer &DVD), and able to input from YouTube.

I have been on Plex about 7 years now and about 30 friends and family are included on my Plex. Many can't utilize an OTA antenna for various reasons and until recently subscribed to Locast. I am looking into a solution that I can share my over the air channels with a IPTV unicasting, multicasting or streaming solution similar to the Locast service but on a much smaller scale of course. Would one of your commercial products be a solution? Obviously we are not on the same network so some sort of "streaming headend" solution is what I am looking for.

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hanks for the timely response!  Perhaps you might walk me thru this? I am using a couple of silicondust HDhome run tuners and I am lucky enough to get good OTA reception receiving a total of 46 channels.  I can only allow access to Live TV & DVR on my Plex server to just a limited few (including my household) because of tuner restrictions as well as my internet upload restrictions.  Xfinity has recently announced fiber availability in my neighborhood which could significantly increase upload speeds to as much as 2000 Mbps if I were willing to pay the price. I also am aware of silicondust's commercial products however, like the home units those too are meant to be used on LAN. I would be willing to invest in commercial equipment and upgrade to fiber if I had a solution that would work.  Questions:  1) how would your suggestion look on YouTube? Would I need a separate tuner for each channel? I'm sure on YouTube it wouldn't emulate a HD tuner?  2) based on my previous information and updated info today, is there any commercial equipment that you sell that could accomplish my goal? In conjunction with HD commercial equipment (or not)  in conjunction with Plex (or not)? Or perhaps utilizing a IPTV box?

We need between 6 and 12 TV channels (ATSC channels), we are using the camera below and we can enable multicast on these cameras, we are currently using H264 as these cameras are connected to a DVR for recording and we cannot change it, we may have to use the converters that you informed.Bosch | AUTODOME IP 5000i IR

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Question 2

If we use the device below, will we still need the converter?

I need to convert an HD QAM CLEAR signal to send over IP UN-ENCRYPTED.   In the current service, my customer has used castnet to convert their coax to IP signal.  Do they want to have a CLEAR IP signal so they can connect to their Samsung TVs that support this?  But also was curious what STB (Set-top box) I would need as well.  For the TVs that need IP/HDMI conversion.  

Do you sell a piece of equipment that converts specific digital channels from coax CATV network and converts it into an IPTV stream?

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I have need for a device that can receive QAM unencoded video on about 12-16 channels, encode those to unicast IP streams which will then be sent over an SD-WAN link to a remote facility, where the streams will then re-broadcast via multicast/UDP to various endpoints at the remote facility.  I feel like your model  H-8QAM-IP should be able to handle that initial QAM->IPStream piece of the puzzle.  Do you have a 16channel unit?  If not, I assume I could use two of the 8channel units.

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I see it has a ton of coax input ports in the back, but all our channels are provided to us on a single feed.  Can one of those ports pick up all channels for the IP streams to be generated from, or would we end up just looping from port 1 to 2 to 3, etc, so each Coax input has a physical connection? What are the IP stream formats, codecs, protocols, that are supported?

3)

So by saying “won't be any other changes versus what you input into the unit”, does that mean we can’t re-encode to lower bitrate or framerate than what is received via the QAM input?  We are hoping to shrink down the streams a bit as we have somewhat limited bandwidth available at the source location.  Even if that means stepping down the resolution, framerate, quality, etc.  We get what appears like about 8Mbps feeds, and would like to shrink it down to about 2Mbps per channel.

I may not be understanding exactly how broadcast TV/CATV works, so please pardon any confusion in my questions.  I assumed you had to do some sort of encoding from QAM to IP no matter what, so was hoping we would have a choice of how that gets encoded.

4)

We receive a live camera feed from every camera angle at the track.  This comes in on coax/QAM and is immediate, no delay.  But we have a number of engineers working back at HQ in the “war room”.  NASCAR provides a livestream via HLS of all camera angles, but that HLS feed is 15-20 seconds behind, just by nature of HLS encoding and file segmenting.  So we are trying to get a lower latency video feed to the war room.

Our thought was to patch into the live Coax feed at the track, encode it to a lower bitrate RTSP stream, unicast that across our SD-WAN link from track to shop.  Then re-transmit via multicast at the shop to any PCs that are online in the war room.  We are hoping all that can be done within a few seconds, and overall will be lower latency than the HLS feed NASCAR provides.  We have a software package that can receive the RTSP stream and re-broadcast via UDP/Multicast with minimal added latency.  So just looking for the QAM->IP/RTSP encoding piece.

Thanks for the reply.  I recall you assisting me the many years ago. Here’s a very specific question on a very specific feature that we are looking for in this unit.

Our current Blonder Tongue unit has a flaw.

Let’s say the source (broadcast company) loses their transmission.  Throughout the the BT’s web interface it can show ‘missing signal’ on the RF input channel and frequency.

Everything else on the RF output still maps to this ‘missing signal’ on the input … However, any TV sets that are tuned to these QAM RF output channels will show "No signal".

For today's TVs, this means that those channels will likely be removed from the channel list of the TV.

When the source broadcast station resumes their broadcast, everything is restored within the encoder and no changes need to be made

However, any TV that had these channel(s) removed because of no signal will now need to be re-scanned to restore those channel(s).

We are looking a unit that will show a test pattern or some other kind of signal on the RF output when the OTA RF input signal is lost.

We live in a retirement community with hundreds of TV sets, and an outage from an OTA broadcast station like this has a huge impact.  (We live in the Southern Arizona region, and our local PBS has been out going on two weeks)

Does the units below have this type of functionality?

Complication is that we are doing 20 channels total.

7 ‘primary’ channels (NBC, PBS, ABC, FOX, CBS, WB & KTTU) in HD, and 13 subchannels in SD.

This solution doesn’t take into account the subchannels, correct?

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Before we get too far on this path, let me recap and add detail on the current BT product.

It has capability take 8 different ATSC channels on the input.

From that, I am able to cherry pick the lineup to provide a total of 20 different channels in clear QAM on 8 different RF channels on output.

I am actually only using 7, as each RF channel is a combination of 1 HD channel, plus 2 or 3 SD channels.

The ability to cherry pick and combine channels on the output are the biggest features that I utilize.

System works perfect except for one issue – when broadcast station loses signal, output on the device looses signal and TV remove channel.

Good news is that you now have the capability to do the ATSC to QAM / IP output, which I’m not sure you had many years ago.

The specific question I have is still the same now with this product.

What happens to the QAM output if the source looses signal - Does your product have the same behavior as our current BT product?

1) We’re trying to output 130 channels from QAM to IP.  What device do you have that can output the most QAM to IP channels as possible?

2) How many IP channels can it output at once?

3) These aren’t for over the air channels.  These are for Dish network so there are no subchannels.  If the Dish Smart Box can output all the channel to the Thor device, is there a limit to the number of channels that we can output via IP?

Hello, I am looking for a solution to transmit TV channels for a hotel, I have 30 smart televisions to which I would like to transmit local TV channels, the installation of the building is with cat6 ethernet cable from a central unit to each TV, (I do not have cable coaxial), in the operations center I have a switch to provide internet to each TV, would you have any solution for an encoder through ethernet to distribute the TV channels by hiring a TV service? The hotel is located in Bolivia - Tarija, in this city there is no iptv yet, so the tv providers work with the coaxial service i will wait for your answer than you.

I hope you are well, I just wanted to reach out again, we have a vessel with an existing network being used for their satellite TV broadcasting and was wondering if we could put together a solution that would allow them to distribute free to air satellite services as well as HDMI sources, I had looked at the soukacatv systems as they seems to tick a good few of the boxes, but not too confident on the company at the moment (although I did like their streaming system), would you have anything that could fit the bill?

On the endpoints, they are slowly change their screens over to Smart TV’s, would a specific app be available that could decode the stream as opposed to getting the decoders, they have around 120 locations on board that would avail of the signal.

1) What is the direrence between phisical layer charkteristic between ATSC 1.0 and ATSC 3.0 modulation of ait standard

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2) what other modulation standards are based on OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)

We are needing to output our unicast streams in H.264 format, is this device able to do that ? I see only MPEG 2 listed once I get to the programming window.

Do you make a product that can encode to H.264 with similar functions as this unit or possibly a separate unit that we could use as a standalone aggregator to ingest unicast in whatever format and convert to H.264 streams?

I’m interested in a RF to IP gateway. I had a question regarding the unit. On the RF input of the unit, would I be able to use one coax line to pick up multiple ATSC channels and break those out into individual IP streams?

For example: One of my RF cable is connected to a high powered antenna that should pick up all the OTA channels in the area. If I connect that cable to RF In 1, will I be able to pick up OTA channels 2 and it’s subchannels along with 4, 5, 11 and their subchannels?

Also, I saw a drawing where a user could connect an ethernet line into a switch and connected multiple feeds from that switch to a tuner box or TV. Does that switch have to be an unmanaged switch or have the capability to be set up with particular protocols?