Alchemist Ph.C HD on Canal+ High Definition

Sogecable installs the Snell standard converter that allows you to go from native SD to SD, native HD to HD and SD-HD up and down conversion.

Sogecable ha elegido la solución de Snell, empresa formada tras la fusión de Snell&Wilcox y Pro-Bel, Alchemist Ph.C HD destinada a dar servicio a la programación de alta definición de Canal+ HD compuesta por Canal+ Premium HD, Canal+ Dcine HD y Canal+ Deportes HD. Gracias a la solución Alchemist Ph.C HD, Canal+ está ofreciendo una gran cantidad de espacios deportivos, documentales y de ficción, procedentes en su gran mayoría de Estados Unidos. Gracias al Alchemist Ph.C HD el material es convertido al estándar europeo pasando grabaciones nativas HD a señal SD para la programación convencional de Canal+ o haciendo un upconvert desde material grabado en SD a la emisión en HD.

But perhaps one of the most notable applications occurs in live signals from the NBA or the famous North American golf tournaments. In this case, the Alchemist Ph.C HD solution allows instantaneous and simultaneous output for both SD and HD channels, always maintaining high signal quality.

Ángel Pacho Conde, engineer and head of maintenance at Digital+, has pointed out that “thanks to its compression algorithm, the Alchemist Ph.C HD is by far the best solution available to satisfy the demand of international programming.”

The Alchemist Ph.C has been awarded an Emmy Award in recognition of the development of its unique?Ph.C motion compensator which has been optimized to prevent artifacts typical of standard conversions. The result is transparent, clear, fluid images free of any type of artifact.