Every year we look forward to CED’s annual year-end ranking of the most important things impacting the cable television industry—it provides a good reference check for what’s really top-of-mind with operators throughout the industry. Right on schedule, CED posted its annual ‘Broadband 50’ ranking, and as we expected, more than a few relate directly to RGB.

Advanced advertising (#3), multi-screen video (#4), IP video (#8), MPEG-4 (#28), CMAP (#45) and transcoding (#49) are all near-and-dear to RGB as they’re at the core of what we do.

We’re not surprised to find any of these topics on CED’s list—RGB’s focus from day one has been to bring the most advanced video processing technology to video service providers around the world.

We continue to do that today with next-generation solutions that are very relevant to operators’ plans for the future and CED’s rankings help demonstrate this. As we say goodbye to 2010 and move forward into a new and exciting year, please stay tuned for more news from RGB on the topics above (a subscription to this blog will provide you with easy, automatic updates to the latest news from RGB!).

RGB’s CEO, Jef Graham, spoke with Light Reading at this year’s Cable-Tec Expo. He discussed some of the takeaways from three screen trials that are underway now, including why the scalability and reliability provided by an integrated hardware platform are important to addressing deployment challenges.

Take a look at the video to learn a little about what RGB has been up to and how we’re working with our customers to make multi-screen deployments a reality.

The teams at RGB Networks and Microsoft Mediaroom have a similar goal – to help video service providers deliver the best in entertainment experiences across all the screens in their subscribers’ lives. And after extensive testing by Microsoft, RGB’s Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) has been certified to work with Microsoft Mediaroom to do just that. This certification verifies that the VMG, with its TCM transcoding module, successfully interoperates with Mediaroom servers and clients to transcode HD, SD and picture-in-picture programs in real time to pass through the Mediaroom IPTV platform in a reliable manner.

We at RGB are very excited about this approval that should help us add Microsoft’s base of leading IPTV service provider customers to our rapidly growing list of customers who are using the VMG to deliver high-quality video to TVs, PCs and mobile devices.

Please contact us to discuss how the VMG can be added to your network to deliver video to one, two or all three screens.

With a long history of bringing the best and latest communications services to its customers in the Texas panhandle, XIT Communications was looking for a way to expand their channel line-up without the need to continually add low-density, single rack unit transcoders to make the necessary conversion from MPEG-2 to the MPEG-4/H.264 format used in their IPTV network. By deploying RGB’s high-density Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG), XIT was able to avoid the cost and headaches associated with the cumbersome rack-loads of old generation equipment.

RGB’s VMG can transcode over 400 streams in a single, carrier-class chassis, providing XIT with the ability to make simple license-based upgrades and to control all of their transcoding functions with a single management system. Along with the modularity, scalability and reliability of the VMG, XIT has a solution in place that will help them to keep their subscribers well-served with a broad line-up of HD and SD channels. Read the press release for more details.

The versatile VMG is an ideal solution for many applications, including MPEG-2 ⇔H.264 transcoding, HD-to-SD downconversion, ad insertion and three screen video delivery. Its flexible options make it suitable for operators of all sizes with a variety of requirements, so contact us today to discuss your application.