VidOvation delivers state-of-the-art technology at cost effective pricing!  With the company's wide variety of world class technologies that focus on enhancing the broadcast television and sports marketplace, providing corporate AV needs, and resourcing  reliable governmental technology, the expertise of VidOvation has been a go-to now for over 50years!  VidOvation's MPEG-4 H.264 family of encoders offers quite impressive technology characteristics for the budget conscious media provider. The VEN-2200 is a stand alone, dual channel  MPEG-4 AVC encoder that offers resolutions from 320x180 up-to 1080p/60, encodes SDI digital and analog composite source signals in  providing high performance real time MPEG-4 AVC output. The unit outputs in DVB-ASI and IP, as well as,  provides SMPTE 2022 for forward error correction when configured! The VEN-2200 and VEN-5200 has the capability to Unicast and Multicast with it's Open Architecture and Non proprietary codec for numerous low cost viewer options. The only openGear and appliance on the H.264 encoder manufacturer's comparison chart that allows for HLS and HTTP output is truly a nice feature for this product line from VidOvation technologies. The flexibility of the supported video networking protocols are UDP, RTP, Direct HTTP and HTTP Live streaming, which means the content provider has multiple avenues of reliable  transport for either unicasting or multicasting! The VEN-5200 dual channel, openGear MPEG-4 AVC Encoder format card provides the same powerful features as mentioned with the VEN-2200, but with the flexibility of adding multiple cards to the VidOvation expansion chassis. The new feature releases for both of these wonderful encoders are auto-detection on input video with auto configuration and scaling, an added audio encoding channel with two or more MPEG-1 Layer II stereo and mono encoding, audio sync adjustment for up to 100 milliseconds of manual A/V synchronization, new SD resolution and SD scaling options for 640x480p 29.97, 528x480p 29.97, 640x576p 25, and 528x576p 25 (ideal for CPU displays), as well as, a customer support tab that emails to VidOvation technical support providing the desired log and configuration files with quick response times! The transport product line from VidOvation has considerable value and measurable results all starting at $3,500.00 per channel! In April, make sure to stop by their NAB 2014 booth and see for yourself how passionate the folks at VidOvation are about providing leading edge technology at an affordable price! For more information about VidOvation go to: http://vidovation.com/index.php?route=common/home  ; For more information, fact finding, and research about the innovative product line at VidOvation go to: http://vidovation.com/index.php?route=product/index&product_id=1  ;  Also, see how VidOvation made a difference for the National Hockey League! at : http://www.vidovation.com/what-makes-vidovation-different-thank-you For all of your up to the minute information on the 2014 NAB Show News, NAB Show Coverage,  and Broadcast Engineering News be sure to stay "in the know" with Broadcast Beat Magazine!