Teranex to introduce StarPack at NAB 2003

Teranex, a leading provider of high-performance image enhancement solutions for digital media, are to introduce StarPack, a powerful new pre-compression processor in a compact two-rack unit package at NAB Booth 462.
StarPack delivers Teranex's outstanding image quality and technology flexibility, at a highly competitive price point, by increasing bit-rate efficiency of compressed streams for digital media distribution.
StarPack combines realtime grain reduction, temporal recursive and brickwall filter algorithms to minimise all extraneous noise while maximising corresponding picture quality, enabling the user to make the best usage of allocated bandwidth.
The processor also addresses the noise that is accumulated in a video sequence as it progresses through the production and distribution processes, such as analogue to digital conversions, tape generation losses and drop-outs caused by terrestrial transmission.
StarPack reduces the bits that are spent on the noise artefacts by detecting the noise and replacing it with real video content.
In doing so, the compressor spends its resources compressing real video content instead of noise, and the quality of the compressed video is increased.
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