Asia-Pacific News

ATEME, a leading provider of video compression solutions, announced that Taiwan Broadcasting System (TBS), the public and largest free to air broadcaster of the Republic of China, selected ATEME’s Kyrion encoders to rollout HD for digital terrestrial television. This owes to ATEME’s experience of DVB-T and the unrivalled compression efficiency of the Kyrion MPEG-4 encoders. [...]

One-Blue, LLC, has announced that U-Tech Media Corporation has joined the One-Blue Blu-ray Disc (BD) product licensing program as a licensee. U-Tech Media signed a BD-ROM Movie Disc and/or Data Disc License Agreement that grants the company access to important patents essential to the Blu-ray Disc standard from leading licensors, including CyberLink, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, [...]

NCKU TV, the news channel established by the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, was launched by NCKU President Hwung-Hweng Hwung on October 15.Presenting a team of energetic, young student news anchors, Hwung said the launch of NCKU TV represents the beginning of a new era in university news service in Taiwan.Speaking to the [...]

Digital Rapids announced that Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has chosen Digital Rapids’ StreamZ Live adaptive streaming encoders and the Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager multi-encoder management software to power live online streaming of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games for viewers in Taiwan. A 14-channel deployment of StreamZ Live encoders is being used to transform live, high definition [...]

Fairlight has reported deals for its technology in Taiwan and Australia.3H Sound Studios in Taipei has purchased three Xynergis/XE6s. 3H Sound Studios is an Full service Film Sound facility that offers services covering the entire scope of Film sound from field recording to sound editing, Foley, Dubbing, Mixing (Dolby), and final delivery. The sound team [...]

Video management software and services company KIT digital has announced key investments and executive appointments it has made in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) designed to support its continued commercial growth there, as well as major customer wins it has recently closed.  According to the company, the combination of macro trends and consumer demand in APAC [...]

Sony has been awarded a contract by Arrow Cinematic Group in Taiwan to provide and maintain its HD broadcast equipment. This major deal will see Sony supplying Arrow with 10 units of Sony’s F65 CineAlta digital motion picture camera. Arrow will be putting the cameras to use in its commercial and film rental business, plus [...]

Sanlih E-Television (SET), one of Taiwan’s leading cable television stations, has rolled-out Sony’s HD broadcast products and solutions for its ongoing HD studio upgrade in a multi-million dollar investment. The acquisition includes a range of broadcast cameras and switchers that will ensure the highest and richest quality content for SET’s viewers. Rolled out across SET’s [...]

Real-time 3D interactive graphics and virtual set provider Brainstorm Multimedia has appointed new Asia Pacific resellers to service increasing demand for Brainstorm’s range of products in the region. Whiteways, headed by Managing Director and Founder Aale Raza, has been appointed to represent Brainstorm in Singapore. Raza is an experienced professional in the APAC market where [...]

Haivision has announced that Asia’s No. 1 sports content provider, ESPN STAR Sports (ESS), is using Haivision’s Barracuda H.264 encoder and Makito decoder at its Singapore and Taiwan facilities to support live sports commentary in multiple languages. The extremely low latency of the Haivision encoder and decoder enables ESS to adopt a fast and cost-effective [...]