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41 www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 12 | December 2017 InTech MSE KitBAGS Simplify C-Stand Transport M atthews Studio Equipment, has developed KitBAGS, a new line of grip and lighting equipment bags. The first of which are designed specifically to ease the daily burden of transporting C-stands. With independent productions shifting to smaller crews and faster setups in multiple locations, MSE's has produced bags that are convenient, strong and affordable. The new bags, designed to transport several stands easily, feature ballistic nylon, heavy duty easy glide zippers, padded red interiors and high- density wheels to ensure performance and reliability. It's a world-class support in a heavyduty package and includes the little extras like business card name-tag holder, padded shoulder strap, grip handles, internal dividers and more. The KitBAGS come in rolling style (wheeled) and shoulder style (strap) VC-2 Cores IMAGENICS 4K HDMI-Over-Coax I MAGENICS has licensed Barco Silex VC-2 HQ cores for video compression applications. The cores have been integrated in HDMI 2.0 transmitter and receiver modules and are instrumental in allowing the long-range transmission of 4K video over coax cabling with visually lossless quality and minimal latency. VC-2 HQ is a unique compression codec designed for professional applications and is standardised as SMPTE ST-2042. Its primary use is the light compression of high pixel rate (4K, 8K) video content to a lower bandwidth to allow real-time transport over IP networks and legacy infrastructure. "Seeing the need in the market for such standardised mezzanine compression in A/V hardware, our video experts have implemented the VC-2 codec as a pair of dependable, lightweight and low-footprint hardware cores, says Gregory Baudet, Marketing Manager Video Products at Barco Silex. "So we are extremely pleased that IMAGENICS now has selected this video codec to enable their new professional A/V product." IMAGENICS new product line (4K IMG.LINK Rev2) consists of HDMI transmitter and receiver modules that interface HDMI equipment with coax, allowing long-range video transmission of HDMI 2.0 standard video and audio signals with only one coaxial cable. Supporting 4:4:4 colour video transmission of 4K@60 HDMI 2.0 / HDCP 2.2, the transmission distance does not depend on the resolution of the HDMI signal. This is made possible by the lightweight compression (2:1 up to 6:1) of the integrated VC-2 cores. Barco Silex VC-2 encoding