Technicolor Mediatune Brochure

MEDIATUNE

HD Switched Matrix System
for DIRECTV™

Technicolor, world-wide leader in video technologies, presents Mediatune, a revolutionary video management system

based on the COM1000 DIRECTV™ satellite headend solution to serve the Bar and Restaurant commercial market.

Compact Form Factor

The COM1000 oers up to 24 HD tuners with up to 24 digital
QAM outputs in only 4 units of rack space. This compact design
also results in dramatic power savings from the typical stacked
receiver and matrix switch solutions.

Pro:Idiom™ Copy Protection

For High-Definition distribution over coaxial cable, copy protec­tion is required. The COM24 HD receiver blade adds Pro:Idiom™
encryption to the HD content which can be played back on any
Pro:Idiom™ enabled television or Technicolor’s DCI401MCS security
terminator device with HDMI output to the television.

Integrated EdgeQAM

Digital QAM distribution enables simple wiring to the televisions
from the headend system. Rather than homerun component,
HDMI or CAT5 using Balun’s, RF coaxial cable can be installed in a
loop-through manner by simply using taps and splitters to distribute

the HD signal to each TV.

Remote Management

Both the COM24 DIRECTV™ receiver card and the QAM modula­tor can be controlled using Internet Protocol commands, so any
device able to browse the internet can access and manage the entire
video system. The COM24 receiver includes a web server based
control interface much like that of a router home networking device
making this simple to use and flexible enough to be controlled by a
PC, Tablet, iPhone or iPad.

Features at a Glance

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Configurable from as little as a 2 x 12 Switched Matrix
system to as large as a 24 x 24 Switched Matrix system
for DIRECTV™ HD content.

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Original DIRECTV™ broadcast quality content delivered
over QAM distribution. No signal transcoding, encoding
or other signal manipulation which can degrade quality.

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Pro:Idiom™ protected video to ensure copy protection
is maintained all the way to television display.

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Simple to install, easy to manage, less than half the size
and cost of a traditional switched matrix video system
using stacked receivers.

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3D capable. Delivers all DIRECTV™ 3D programming
to the TV or the DCI401MCS which can be viewed on
3D capable sets.

MEDIATUNE

HD Switched Matrix System
for DIRECTV™

Switch the Source, Not the Channel

Mediatune presents a fundamental shift in how you might typically
think about controlling a video distribution system. RF distribution

systems provide a fixed channel line-up allowing each TV to tune

through channels. In a Mediatune configuration, each TV is set to

a fixed QAM channel and the source is switched

The control interface then allows you to search through the entire

DIRECTV™ channel package to select the desired programming,
and then place that programming on the desired TV to watch.
You can watch the same content on all the TVs, or depending on

how many tuners are in the system, each TV can have its own

tuner allowing each TV to watch a dierent source channel.

IP-based Control Interface: Web, Tablet, POS

Click on desired source on the right, drag and drop to output on the left

Possible Control Points

SATELLITE IPADPC POS

SWM

MEDIATUNE Components

COM24 – HD Receiver Blade

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2 HD DIRECTV™ tuners

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Pro:Idiom content protection

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Up to 12 cards can fit into a COM200 chassis

QAM6 – 6x256 EdgeQAM

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12 channel EdgeQAM upgradeable to 8-channel, 10-channel
and 12-channel modes

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Supports 2 HD streams per QAM channel

DCI401MCS – Pro:Idiom Security Terminator

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Fits under or behind the TV to receive the QAM broadcast,
decode the Pro:Idiom™ copy protection and output the video
to the TV via HDMI

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Full resolution digital quality directly to the TV

QAM 

The nu mber of COM24 ’s determin es

STATIC QAM

CHANNEL

TV #1

STATIC QAM

CHANNEL

TV #4

COM24

HD Receiver Blades

the nu mber of avai lable tun ers

STANDARD RF DISTRIBUTION

HD Channels modulated over QAM

STATIC QAM

[•••]

TV #5-22

STATIC QAM

CHANNEL

TV #2

CHANNEL

TV #23

ROUTER

STATIC QAM

CHANNEL

TV #3

STATIC QAM

CHANNEL

TV #24

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