Hewlett-Packard Co has announced a new generation of its Broadcast Video Servers, designed specifically for the broadcast industry and starting at $100,000. They are claimed to deliver about twice the performance of the current ones, with up to six channels and up to 50 hours of award-winning video quality in a single package. The Broadcast Video Server includes full networking capabilities, fault-tolerant architecture, MPEG-2 video compression and from two to six channels, which can be expanded as needed for high-bandwidth Fiber Channel networking. It comes with options for from eight to nearly 50 hours of video storage. The six-channel version costs $215,000 and will be available in the second half of the year.
