The MVE-R16 is a rack mountable system which supports four encoder or decoder blades. The MVE-R16 supports up to 16 channels when four blades are being utilized in the MVE-R16. The blades can be either encoders or decoders. Each blade can output HD or SD resolutions with 4 channels per blade. Support function blades for the MVE-R16 include:

• BLE264-H4 which supports HDMI inputs
• BLE264-S4 which supports SDI inputs
• BLD265-SC2 decoder blade which supports SDI and Composite outputs
• BLE264-FP face plate for when one or more of the encoding or decoding slots are not being utilized