Catar 2022, at UHD via TDT with SIVAC-CE DE SAPEC

The sivac-one decoder card/decoder Sapec has allowed RTVE The key to Catar 2022 World Cup in UHD issued through the TDT.

In the face of the issuance of the most outstanding meetings of QUART 2022, different members of the association UHD Spain Forces have joined forces to contribute all the knowledge, technology and resources necessary to continue spreading the advantages of the Ultra high definition to the Spanish population.

Concretely, Sapec has contributed the module Sivac-One Media Processor (SMP1000), which is responsible for receiving the signal sent from the IBC of Catar by IP and Fiber Optics, and decode it so that the teams of RTVE (For emissions through TVE) and Mediapro (via World goal) They are responsible for customizing it and leaving it ready for issuance. That is when he Sivac-none Codifies the signal again to deliver it to all TDT transmitters, on DVB-T2, of Cellnex, Axion y Telecom CLM.

The signal produced UHD, beyond having the resolution 4K, it has a high dynamic range (HDR), wide color spectrum (BT.2020) and Immersive audio in format 5.1.4 offered by the technology of Dolby Atmos.

Sivac-one, key to workflow

The Sivac-none (SMP1000) of SAPEC is a last generation hevc/HEVC decoder card and very low latency developed for the SIVAC -one modular platform that can house up to three cards in a 1U rack. The TARJETA SMP supports up 1 canal UHD (4K) o Four FHD/HD channels. Therefore, if the capacity of the SAPEC platform is maximized, from a single rack unit a channel density can be offered to 12 canales HD or 3 UHD scales. Compatible with SMPTE 2022-1/2/7, the system has entrance 12G-SDI or 4x3G-SDI, redundancy N+1 and redundant source (AC/DC), removable in caliente.

Emili Planas, Cto and operations manager of Mediapro, has actively participated in the design of the workflow that has allowed the custing World Cup to the Spanish spectators. The also member of the UHD Spain Board of Directors identifies as one of the keys to the success of this project having had First level solutions: "Working in Workflows UHD-HDR forces us to use the best products in the market to ensure the highest level of quality and service. All suppliers in this project have been excellent and have met all expectations from day one."

On the other hand, Miguel Ángel Cristóbal, CEO of SAPEC and member of the Board of Directors of UHD Spain, celebrates that Sivac-one has played a “fundamental” role in emissions through the TDT of the Catar 2022 World Cup: “It is a pride to see how the effort of the Human team of SAPEC translates into an open UHD broad Cinema supposes the culmination of an exciting year in which it has been shown that the ultra high definition is here to stay. ”