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Digital Rapids 'Stream' products are designed to be a simple and straightfoward solution for the high quality encoding of broadcast video signals into streaming media.

The Stream hardware and software components are designed to be flexible, intuitive with powerful video capture and pre-processing solutions available.

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StreamZ HD 

StreamZHD format-agile media encoding servers expand the powerful and flexible features of StreamZ into the high definition domain, offering multi-format, high-performance HD/SD content ingest, encoding, transcoding and streaming with outstanding output quality for a broad range of professional applications.

StreamZ HD 

High definition video anywhere, any time, any format

Post production, HDTV broadcast, archive, digital dailies, video on demand (VOD), IPTV, high definition DVD and many other professional applications have embraced the visual quality offered by HD acquisition, production and distribution. With StreamZHD you have a versatile tool that can capture, encode, transcode, and deliver your content in multiple formats ranging from uncompressed HD video to high-quality streaming media, all from a single, intuitive interface.

StreamZHD encoders are format-agile. Powered by the Digital Rapids DRC-5500 hardware, StreamZHD systems can capture HD or SD video in its native format, or format convert it on-the-fly from HD to SD, SD to HD, or between HD resolutions and frame rates. StreamZHD supports 10-bit and 8-bit uncompressed video and hardware-based JPEG2000 compression, plus a broad range of encoding formats including Windows Media 9, SMPTE VC-1, MPEG-4, AVC (H.264), MPEG-2, QuickTime and more. StreamZHD’s hardware-based video pre-processing – including motion-adaptive de-interlacing, noise reduction, proc amp controls and filtering – ensure industry-leading output quality and enable the most efficient use of bandwidth in the compressed result.