ATEME has partnered with STI Telecom to provide a turnkey high-definition distribution platform for TV Record. STI Telecom’s satellite uplink system now includes ATEME Kyrion encoders and decoders, the company announced.
Targeting a wide variety of DTV applications – all using ATEME technology for improved picture quality – Kyrion is the world’s first MPEG-4/AVC solution. Kyrion consists of a live video stream encoder, an offline file encoder and transcoder.
All these apply MPEG-4/AVC encoding to facilitate HD video to occupy far less bandwidth than comparable MPEG-2 encoding. A Kyrion-encoded HD program transmitted at 6 Mbps, for example, offers the same level of A/V quality as an MPEG-2 HD program transmitted at 19 Mbps, according to a press release.
"This is the first commercial deployment of HD-SAT for TV Record, and it is really exciting for us to participate in bringing pristine high definition quality content free to air to rural communities,” said Raul E. Rivera, Director of Sales for Latin America at ATEME. “Undertaking such project would not have been possible without the expertise and support of our partner STI Telecom, a true extension of our engineering team.”
Kyrion allows customers to provide more HD channels to their subscribers without costly network infrastructure upgrades. The Kyrion live encoders offer a considerably wider operating scale – from 0.5 to 25 Mbps – facilitating content aggregators, broadcasters, service operators and telcos to reach their audience with superb picture quality on any viewing device from mobile to Ultra HD.
TMC’s (News - Alert) Narayan Bhat recently reported that Digicable, India’s second biggest cable operator, selected TITAN, ATEME’s transcoding platform, as the pay TV operator increases its drive to get a larger share of the Indian market. The news comes amid growing rumors that Digicable may merge with Den Networks, who has a 50-50 joint venture with Star DEN, News Corp (News - Alert).'s Star TV Group formed in 2008.
Edited by Braden Becker
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