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Compression suppliers and broadcast and cable engineers descended on PanAmSat's Napa, Calif., teleport last week for a demonstration of HDTV satellite compression systems. The two-day event featured HDTV encoding and decoding equipment from Mitsubishi/Tektronix, NDS, NEC, Sony, Tiernan and Thomson, and representatives from CBS, Disney, HBO, NBC, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Turner Broadcasting, Univision and Viacom.
Sony provided the HD material for the demo, which was played off a Panasonic D-5 tape deck and decompressed to 1.5 Gb/s baseband HDTV. Compression vendors then fed the signal into their encoders and compressed it,...