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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
Hong Kong-based broadcaster, Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), has selected Thomson's Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) solutions for its deployment in
Hong Kong for the MFN and SFN networks. TVB's DTT system is a turnkey video head-end system which includes compression, multiplexing, and electronic program guide (EPG) management for the transmission of standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) video using both MPEG-2 and H.264 standards. Equipped with
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SD and HD encoders, NetProcessor(tm) 9030 MPEG video processors for hybrid statistical multiplexing, Jade EPG servers, and XMS management system, TVB will be able to leverage their unique dynamic service plan management capabilities to seamlessly remove and add channels within their service plan. Established in 1967 with a staff of 200, TVB was the first terrestrial free-to-air commercial television broadcaster in
Hong Kong. The company has now grown in size with a staff of approximately 4,500 and transmits over 16,000 hours of programming on its Chinese Jade channel and English Pearl channel to 2.29 million homes in
Hong Kong. It is also one of the largest producer of Chinese language programming in the world.
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