Grass Valley products from Thomson offer the most comprehensive, multi-format solutions for acquisition, production, storage, playback, and transmission and a strong foundation for centralized, proactive status and activity monitoring. Designed for cable, direct-to-home satellite, telecommunications, and terrestrial television operations, Grass Valley transmission products provide turnkey solutions for digital content delivery. Whether it's moving digital information from studios to broadcast centers or to a local head end, they provide the best video quality at the lowest bit rate all using open architectures that support myriad conditional- access (CA) systems, middleware, and other devices. For SD MPEG-2 decoding, our DBD 4437 platform is designed to meet the most demanding applications requirements while maximising ease of use and flexibility. Three different models are available for broadcast contribution and distribution applications, including a single-service 4:2:0 decoder, a dual-service 4:2:0 decoder, and a single-service 4:2:0/4:2:2P decoder. The DBD 4437 series also includes a variety of network interfaces, from satellite reception to IP front ends.