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- Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: BDRL) designs, manufactures and markets advanced video delivery and broadband signal processing equipment for cable television, video on demand, Internet protocol television (IPTV), high-speed data and professional applications worldwide. The company offers encoders and transcoders including 4K/ultra-high definition, high definition, standard definition, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/H.264 and HEVC/H.265 models as well as QPSK/8PSK and QAM transcoders; NXG IP digital video processing and headend products such as IPTV format conversions and edge devices; digital modulation products like Aircaster ATSC/QAM/IP transmodulators; CPE products comprising Android-based IPTV set-top boxes; DOCSIS data products and CMTS; analog modulators; fiber optic transport systems; broadband amplifiers; test and measurement instruments; and contract manufacturing services through its wholly owned subsidiary R.L. Drake Holdings, LLC. Founded in 1950 and headquartered in Old Bridge, New Jersey, Blonder Tongue serves cable system operators, broadcasters, lodging providers, institutions, hospitality venues and systems integrators primarily in the United States with solutions for digital video encoding, transcoding, transport, RF broadband distribution over coax, fiber and IP networks. Recent developments include a partnership with NAGRAVISION to integrate software-based conditional access with the NXG Video Gateway System for DVB-CSA2 SimulCrypt descrambling in North American hospitality venues replacing end-of-life PowerKey CableCARDS; integration of SRT error correction and protocol into the Aircaster AQT8 Series transmodulators for remote IP/QAM applications; standardization of the Drake PEG PLUS Advanced Video Encoder by a North American tier-one broadband cable operator for local content contribution; launch of the CV NTSC32 IP digital-to-analog synthesizer expanding the NTSC product line; and addition of IP failover to the NXG Video Delivery System alongside a 20-year service offering.