Rhozet Carbon Coder?

[SCDVD]

The BBC has announced they are switching to Rhozet's Carbon Coder for transcoding both broadcast and web videos. Does anyone know anything about Carbon Coder? It's expensive - $4,995 so it's not for the average user. How does it compare to Grass Valley's products?

[Soopafresh]

Here's a 30 day eval of a $5000 Mpeg and h264 encoder. You decide.

ftp://pixeltools.com/demo/MprHdDem.zip


Personally, unless the app is incredibly easy, or makes perfect HD out of Youtube vids, I'd say those $$$ are better spent elsewhere. But those kind of decisions are based on office politics rather than technical merit.