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Dalet Opens Moscow Office
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alet Digital Media Systems has
opened an ofﬁce in Moscow to
support a growing customer base.
Dalet said that it had experienced
a strong surge in business in the
past year, securing a number of new
contracts in Russia.
Dalet COO Stephane Schlayen
said: “We identiﬁed the Russian
market as a strategic target a few
years ago. Many operators there are
upgrading their facilities to increase
productivity and efﬁciency and they
realise the value of our advanced
technologies.
“Our products have been well
received and we’re very fortunate
to have OKNO-TV as our integration
partner in Russia. They have a deep
understanding of how our MAMdriven workflow solutions can
streamline every aspect of broadcast
and multiplatform production.
“OKNO’s market knowledge,
experience and technical expertise
has helped us tremendously in the

Russian market. With the opening
of our new ofﬁce in Moscow we
can provide even stronger support
to our customers and partners
in the region.”
Several existing customers
have recently specified system
expansions, upgrades and new
projects. These include: Russia
Today – Dalet News Suite for 1,400

users; Moscow’s Channel 1 – Dalet
Media Life for Archiving with 50
seats; GTRF, the national archive
in Moscow – added five seats
Dalet Media Life for Archives; and
TV Center upgraded to the newest
version, 128 seats.
A team of six Dalet engineers and
broadcast professionals will provide
local project and customer support.

T

homson Video Networks has
announced a new range of
headend solutions tailored to
the specific requirements and
capabilities of cable operators in
India.
Based on the common Indian
channel line-up, each solution is
designed to provide the appropriate
level of encoding for a particular
channel format.
For SD content and channels
available only through broadcasters’
proprietary STB set-top boxes

M YA : M y a n m a r ’s n a t i o n a l
broadcaster MRTV has purchased
Grass Valley solutions for
live HD coverage of the 2013
Southeast Asian Games.
Grass Valley designed and
delivered two turnkey ﬂight packs
and an OB van to enable the ﬁrst
ever HD live coverage in Myanmar.
Included in the package are 18
LDX Première cameras and XCU
eXchangeable Control Unit base
stations, a Kayak production
switcher, Concerto routers and four
K2 Dyno Replay Systems.

Indian Digital
Switchover

Strong surge in Russian contracts, say Dalet

Thomson Solutions Ease Indian Transition
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MRTV Selects
Grass Valley

(STBs), Thomson Video Networks
is offering its industry-proven and
globally deployed ViBE VS7000 and
ViBE EM1000 encoders.
For HD channels and hybrid
operators, the headend solution
includes the market-leading ViBE
EM4000 multichannel encoder.
Thomson Video Networks’ ViBE
EM1000 offers encoding analogue
audio and video inputs in either
MPEG-2 or MPEG-4.
For SD content and channels
offered through broadcasters’

The ViBE EM4000 can encode up to eight channels in H.264 and HD

proprietary STBs, the ViBE VS7000
allows transcoding of long-tail
services and can be also expanded
for multi-screen video delivery
through software licenses.
For HD channels and hybrid
operations, the market-leading
ViBE EM4000 multi-channel encoder
enables advanced features such
as HD/3D encoding, dual parallel
output, and more.
Housed in a 1RU chassis, the ViBE
EM4000 can encode up to eight
channels in H.264 and HD, making
it ideal for feeding a QAM channel.
All the products that comprise
the headend solutions are part of
Thomson Video Networks’ current,
fully supported, and continuously
developed portfolio.

SIN: Appear TV launched a
cable head-end specifically to
meet the technical and business
issues faced by India’s cable
operators that are mandated to
switch from analogue to digital.
The cable dedicated head-end
will be marketed to India’s cable
operators directly and through the
Appear TV network of India-based
business partners, with post-sales
support provided by its service
centre in Delhi.

T-Broad Deploys
Alticast Windmill
KOR: T-Broad, Korea’s largest
Cable MSO, has deployed
Alticast’s Windmill Ecosystem.
Based on the HTML5
next generation open web
standard, Windmill provides
T-Broad with a future proofed
TV application development
platform free from vendor lock-in.
Alticast’s Windmill is an ecosystem
of open modular technologies
to enable service providers to
quickly and cost-effectively deploy
innovative services utilising HTML5
for an interactive TV experience.

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