Tandberg wins Korean contracts
Rose Major ©RapidTVNews | 07-12-2008
Tandberg Television has won two key Korean contracts, as the country’s telcos gear up for the launch of linear IPTV broadcasting.KT has selected a Tandberg IPTV head end for its Mega TV IPTV service. Mega TV has over 700,000 subscribers to its existing on-demand offering and will use Tandberg’s EN8090 HD MPEG4 AVC (pictured, above) and EN8030 SD MPEG4 AVC encoders. The head end expansion follows a competitive tender earlier in the year.
SK Broadband, Korea’s second-largest broadband provider, is also deploying a Tandberg IPTV head end, also including HD and SD MPEG4 AVC encoding. SK Broadband (formerly Hanaro Telecom and the IPTV market leader) intends to introduce 30 standard-def and 10 high-def channels initially.
As well as the EN8090 and EN8030 encoders, Tandberg is also supplying its iPlex for IP multiplexing and RX1290 SD/HD integrated receiver decoders to SK Broadband.
Dr HS Kim at SK Broadband, said: “Broadcast television is a significant new service for SK Broadband and will improve the IPTV experience and help us grow our business. We want to provide a feel-good factor for consumers watching our services and therefore set very high expectations for picture quality as well as bandwidth usage. Tandberg Television has demonstrated its leadership in MPEG-4 AVC HD and SD compression and we are pleased to work with them on this exciting project.”
© Rapid TV News 2008
