LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NAB Booth #N.SU5517 - Appear TV, a global provider of next-generation head-ends for broadcast and IP television, today announced that new products previewed at NAB 2011, including encoding and new satellite receiver modules, mean that Appear TV is the first company able to provide customers with high density head-ends that can handle all the functionality required for distribution over cable, IP, satellite and terrestrial networks.
By providing full flexibility over inputs, outputs, encoding and transcoding, Appear TV has produced a universal head-end that’s capable of taking any input and providing any output. This ‘anything to anything’ approach provides maximum flexibility, something that’s increasingly important as broadcast architectures gain in complexity.
For instance a satellite operator choosing an Appear TV solution now has all the functionality it needs to handle a complete satellite uplink with a number of transponders from one single unit. With other vendors this would take a complete rack of equipment and additionally require a management system to provide equivalent functionality.
Discussing this exciting new development, Carl-Walter Holst, CEO, Appear TV, said: “Our approach has always been to enable customers to build bespoke head-ends based on a chassis with core functionality augmented by specific modules. The NAB 2011 preview of encoding modules means that we can now produce an entire head-end in one chassis – and we can do it with total flexibility.”
“Customers have been asking us for encoding for some time. Although we already provided more of the distribution solution than other vendors, without encoding we were one piece short of the entire jigsaw. Our approach saves space and greatly simplifies operations through integrating a management system with the enormous feature-set of our head-ends. And with encoding now in place, Appear TV head-ends uniquely provide everything required to get on air, making us the only delivery partner a broadcaster ever needs,” concluded Holst.
The Appear TV exhibition booth sees demonstrations of:
- New real-time, high-quality video encoding modules for the Appear TV head-end chassis
- Central and edge capable head-ends for cable, digital terrestrial, IPTV and satellite
- New high performance DVB-S/S2 demodulation
- Highly efficient and powerful bulk decoding
- High performance multiplexing and IP streaming together with integrated adapters
- A complete range of modulators for satellite, terrestrial and cable networks.
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Note to editors:
If you would like to book an appointment at NAB 2011 to discuss any Appear TV solution, or have any other enquires, please visit the company’s stand (SU5517), contact Sally Douglas, sdouglas@platformpr.com, +44 (0)20 7486 4900, or call Platform’s David Bramley, who is looking after Appear TV on the ground at NAB, on +44 7711 239 062. For more information visit: www.appeartv.com
About Appear TV
Appear TV is based in Oslo, Norway. The company produces world-class equipment that enables operators to deliver professional broadcast services to millions of users around the globe. The company is dedicated to developing reliable, revenue-generating and innovative solutions for operators looking to deliver real-time content to the home. Appear TV head-ends are designed for modularity, high density, and flexibility. www.appeartv.com