Wegener Communications 4600 Home Theater Server User Manual


 
UNITY 4600 USERS MANUAL
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1.2 Product Overview
Functional
Description
The Wegener Unity 4600 Professional Media Receiver is a fully DVB-compliant satellite
video IRD. The U4600 receives an L-band RF carrier from an external LNB, demodulates
the carrier, extracts the MPEG transport stream, and provides the decompressed program
or programs to DVB-ASI, composite video, and/or stereo audio outputs.
Features include:
Control by local user or remote COMPEL
system
Download of software application upgrades via satellite
Supports COMPEL
/CA Conditional Access at transport level or by program
Supports receiver card options using either DVB-QPSK or Advanced Turbo-Modu-
lations (Turbo-QPSK, T-8PSK, or T-16QAM)
DVB-ASI transport stream output with network-controlled program mapping
Supports ISO 13818-1 transport rates from 2.5 to 55 Mbps (with local decompres-
sion) or up to 86.25 Mbps (to program-mapped ASI transport only)
Local decompression of MPEG-2 video and MPEG-2 (L1 and L2) and/or Dolby AC-
3 audio
Auto-recognition and support of 525-line NTSC or 625-line PAL
Audio-only mode option for radio networks
Alarm relay
Cueing relays and DTMF cue tone outputs standard
Optional SCTE 35 DPI message filter for network control of local ad avails
Optional front-panel audio and video monitors
Web browser control (to be released August 2005)
Physical
Description
The U4600 is housed in a standard, 1 RU, rack-mountable chassis. Its front panel pro-
vides a user interface with six push buttons and an LCD window that displays two lines of
text. Remote monitoring is also available through both the audio and video ports.
The rear panel holds connectors for input and output signals, LNB power supply, serial
and Ethernet monitoring and control, alarm and user relays, and AC input power. The unit
also includes two Unity expansion module slots.
Figure 1.1 The Unity 4600 Professional Media Recorder