Quality Assurance for Production

Consulting and testing services around formats and products

Together with the introduction of HDTV, but also in the course of the general availability of high-quality video sources such as DVDs, increasing requirements arise on the technical quality of the television picture. The television signals are digitally coded in a growing number of formats during production and for broadcasting.

The technical quality of the encoders, transcoders, and decoders employed in the production chain is becoming more and more important. Also, cascading effects of such devices play an increasing role.

IRT researches, develops, and tests since many years in above mentioned areas with the aim, to support broadcasters and equipment manufacturers on one side in betting on the right technology trend, and on the other side in efficiently achieving desired levels of engineering quality. Furthermore, IRT works out planning parameter for production platforms and programme dissemination. more