Asia-Pacific News

HTV (Ho Chi Minh City Television) joined the ETERE community in 2009, upgrading its old system with ETERE, consisting of a new setup composed by two different video servers: one disk archive and a LTO library system. HTV found exactly the right solution for the management of their broadcasting activities, selecting tapeless solutions provided by [...]

MP & Silva, a leading international media rights company, has secured a deal for the exclusive rights to distribute FIFA’s line-up of tournaments in Vietnam between 2013 and 2014 for the first time, including the highly sought-after 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil.The 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil is expected to once again captivate soccer fans [...]

Danmon Asia has announced its appointment as distributor for the entire product range from EditShare. This includes ingest, asset management, shared storage, editing, playout, archive and recovery.“EditShare’s systems allow programme-makers, post-production companies, broadcasters, independent studios and transmission service providers to operate collaboratively in a highly efficient file-based workflow,” states Robert Rosenberg, Managing Director of Danmon [...]

Danmon Asia Ltd has announced its nomination as master distributor for Genelec Oy in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. The appointment was confirmed by Genelec Oy’s Sales Director, Mikko Tuomi: “We have worked closely with Danmon Asia Ltd’s parent company in Scandinavia and are very pleased to see this partnership extend into Vietnam and its [...]

HARMAN’s Studer has appointed Danmon Asia as its distributor for Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. The agreement includes distribution of the entire Studer product range including OnAir and Vista audio mixers, Stageboxes, RELINK interfaces, D21 MasterSync and MultiFeed distribution equipment and the CMS Call Management System.“Studer was for many decades the world leader in audio [...]

Sennheiser Electronic Asia has announced the appointment of Danmon Asia as the official distributor for the Sennheiser range of professional audio products into Vietnam. The agreement includes Sennheiser microphones, wireless systems and professional headsets.“We are really excited to be working with Sennheiser in the Vietnamese market,” comments Robert Rosenberg, Managing Director of Danmon Asia. “Our [...]

Vietnam’s Prime Minister has signed off on a nationwide analogue to digital migration plan which will see the country’s television stations broadcasting completely in digital by 2020. Speaking at a press conference in late January, Mr. Le Nam Thang, Deputy Minister of Information and Communication said the digitalisation scheme also aims to gradually expand digital [...]

NTT Communications (NTT Com) has announced that Global Data Services JSC (GDS), a joint venture between NTT Com and Vietnam Posts & Telecommunications (VNPT), has begun offering a wide range of domestic and international network services in Vietnam after becoming the first foreign-capital enterprise to obtain a telecom network license from the Ministry of Information [...]

Masstech has expanded its reach into Asia with the signing of its first deal in Vietnam with the Vietnam Television Film Center (VFC) to digitally archive all its film productions. The installation of Masstech’s Emerald LE solution with integration to Avid’s Interplay ISIS is currently underway at VFC’s Hanoi facility. Vietnam Television Film Center, a [...]

The Vietnamese Public Security Ministry has officially launched the An Ninh (Security) Television Channel (ANTV), choosing Etere. ANTV is the dedicated channel of the security forces intended to explore news and other issues related to public order; it will provide viewers with a reliable and timely overview of public security information and will encourage people [...]