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Images move the world. We move heaven and earth to make sure your content is delivered to your viewers and customers. In Europe and throughout the world. Efficiently and securely. We have been setting standards in digital television for more than 15 years. We were the first in Germany to transmit programmes digitally and broadcast them in the new HDTV format. Today, we operate one of the most modern centres in Europe, offering our clients a comprehensive range of services for the preparation and transmission of content for established broadcasters and media enterprises, as well as for young, innovative, up-and-coming broadcasting channels. Our customers include well-known TV broadcasting companies from both the public and private sphere, as well as pay-tv providers, production companies, rights owners, cable network operators and global enterprises. We care about your content
Complete package or à la carte: it all comes from a single source The digital workflow of modern media production is our domain. We develop individual complete solutions for our customers or separate modules for their digital value-creation processes, and we offer a wide-ranging portfolio of services: tailor-made playout services and uplinks to SES s global satellite fleet; modern content management for efficient digital delivery of content; protection of content by means of secure encryption methods; distribution of your video content via the internet; right through to developing and hosting HbbTV applications. An international network As a subsidiary of SES, we have extensive expertise in state-of-the-art satellite communications. With more than 50 satellites and 15 teleports, SES operates a global network that reaches 99 per cent of the world s population. As part of SES, we open up media markets all over the globe to our customers and develop new business models. Service overview 3
Our services Whether you're looking for an individual TV channel or complete end-to-end solutions for multi-channel pay-tv platforms, our services meet all your requirements. Content Management Services Our cloud-based archiving services meet all the handling and logistics needs of TV broadcasting and production companies. We digitise your content, store it in our digital archive, convert video content, and deliver it to platforms for further distribution. Whether you are located right next to our facilities or ten thousand miles away: you can access and edit your content from your offices at any time. Playout Services You send us your content together with your playlist schedule and we play out a finished TV channel for you. We provide high-quality and full-service playout solutions precisely tailored to your TV channel s profile. We also provide playout solutions, which allow you to take full control of your channel. Encryption Services We provide encryption and controlled access solutions for all conceivable business models so that only selected users are granted access to your content. Our services range from the encryption of entire pay-tv platforms to protection for the delivery of signals as well as simulcrypt solutions to ensure your channel is available on a range of platforms.
Broadcast Services We use the SES satellites to deliver your television channels to living rooms around the world. In addition to broadcasting television programming, we offer comprehensive services for distributing radio and data content as well as for delivering signals to cable and terrestrial networks. Internet Services We distribute your video content in the best quality to all devices via the internet whether live or on demand. In addition to our Content Delivery Network, we offer development, hosting and broadcasting of HbbTV applications. Service overview 5
Content Management Services Your content at the touch of a button We make sure that your content is available whenever you need it wherever you need it. In the right format for processing or broadcasting. Good television is, above all, a question of timing. The same applies most to the logistics. Our Content Management Services meet all the handling and logistics needs of TV broadcasting and production companies. We digitise your tape-based content and store it in our highly available digital archive. We convert your video files into all the file formats you require for internet distribution, video-on-demand platforms or television broadcasting, and we deliver it to your customers saving you a great deal of time and, of course, money. Our Media Asset Management System enables you to control all functions yourself via a web interface, so that you can view and index your content or prepare it for cutting on your PC. This means you always have full control over your content, while we look after the logistical details in the background. We attach great importance to quality and security: we check your video material when we read it into our digital archive, save your video files on fully redundant systems, and store your tapes in secure and temperature-controlled rooms. CONTENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES AT A GLANCE Digitisation and Ingest Cloud-based Media Asset Management Digital Archiving Transcoding and Packaging Delivery to VoD-Platforms Service overview 7
Playout Services Playout matched to your channel's profile What counts is the end result. You make and plan the programme. We transmit it. Reliably and punctually. We offer you Playout Services precisely tailored to your TV channel s profile. You send us your content together with your playlist schedule, and we play out a finished TV channel for you in standard definition and high definition. Security and stability are our top priority: our redundantly structured transmission equipment, fully automated video and audio analysis systems, and permanent visual monitoring guarantee the highest transmission security. We have the right solution for every requirement: from low-cost, customer-controlled playout for special-interest channels and start-ups, right through to tailor-made playout with all-round, 24-hour support. Thanks to state-of-the-art graphics systems, you can also incorporate additional, current information into your broadcasts. Animated advertisements, lower-third crawls, logos, and other graphical elements differentiate your channel from all the others, and promote viewer loyalty always in keeping with the motto: idea of providing as much individuality as possible with as little effort as necessary. PLAYOUT SERVICES AT A GLANCE Playout Compact Customer-controlled playout solution Playout Remote Decentralised playout Playout Basic Basic playout with on-air logo Playout Pro Playout with 2D or 3D graphics support Playout Modular Playout tailored to your requirements Service overview 9
Encryption Services The key to your success Exclusive content is coveted. You determine who is authorised to see yours. Our Encryption Services are the key to protecting it. We support you with encryption and controlled access solutions for all conceivable business models so that only selected users are granted access to your content. Leading players like SKY, RTL Group or HD+ (an additional programme offering high-definition quality via satellite) trust in our expertise. Our Conditional Access Services support the classic DVB encryption models pay per channel, pay per view and pay per time. We offer solutions for encrypted signal delivery, and simulcrypt broadcasts with almost all common encryption systems. And, of course, we also protect TV, video and radio transmissions for internet broadcast services. ENCRYPTION SERVICES AT A GLANCE Conditional Access System Simulcrypt Digital Rights Management and Secure Streaming Service overview 11
Broadcast Services We help you to gain coverage Less is often more. But that s certainly not the case when it comes to coverage. Here, a lot really helps a lot. Our Broadcast Services enable you to reach your viewers. All of them, all over the world. We deliver your TV channels and radio programmes straight to the living rooms of the world, to cable networks, terrestrial networks and IPTV head-ends via SES s satellite systems and globally deployed teleports. Our Digital Uplink Services are a complete package in the true sense of the word, ranging from preparation of the finished broadcast signal to compression with state-of-the-art MPEG encoding technology right through to the provision of bandwidth capacity on the satellite. Whether it s SD or HD, 3D, 16:9 or Dolby Digital 5.1, with our high-end infrastructure we broadcast your TV channel to the world via satellite in the video and audio quality you require. And you can rest assured that all the programmes are monitored during the entire encoding and uplink process. What's more, all the systems required are redundantly structured, ensuring interruption-free encoding and distribution. Broadcast Services AT A GLANCE Digital Uplink for TV Digital Uplink for Radio Digital Uplink for data Signal Contribution Service overview 13
Internet Services We deliver TV to the internet The viewers used to have to come to the content. Today, the content must come to the viewers. Regardless of where they are right at that moment. We make sure that your images move people everywhere whether they re at home or out and about. Today, transmitting video content via the internet is almost obligatory for content providers and broadcasting companies, because more and more people are using content they call up from live streams, media libraries and catch-up services. In this dynamic market environment, you have to reach your viewers on a great variety of platforms and devices. We offer everything you need to distribute your video content via the internet, enabling you to focus completely on the conceptual design and implementation of your web or mobile service. Internet TV needs good television quality, too. We use the latest encoder technology to deliver your TV channel to the internet or mobile devices with as low latency as possible and in the highest quality. Our Content Delivery Network is a worldwide distribution network available to you for distributing large volumes of data without any problems and ensuring that your content can be retrieved and accessed by a high number of users without restriction. And, if you like, we can give you an app for everything to do with TV viewing for an HbbTV application, as well as for the web. INTERNET SERVICES AT A GLANCE Multi-Screen Live Encoding Content Delivery Network HbbTV Development, Hosting, Playout Service overview 15
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