JVC BR-EN900 Encoder

The ProHD BR-EN900 is a professional hardware encoder that compresses live video to HEVC (H.265) or H.264 in real time using a dedicated compression chip rather than a general-purpose CPU. All-hardware HEVC lets it stream broadcast-quality 1080p at up to 10-bit 4:2:2 while using as much as 50 percent less bandwidth than the best H.264 encoders, or delivering roughly twice the quality at the same bitrate.

Inputs cover 3G-SDI, HDMI, DVI and composite plus analog and digital audio, and the appliance can encode to multiple destinations at once, feeding a hardware decoder and a CDN together. Zixi transport keeps the feed error-free across satellite, xDSL, LAN, WAN and 3G/4G/LTE links, so remote productions reach the studio intact. Pair it with the BR-DE900 decoder for a complete point-to-point link.