Taiwan Broadcasting System invests in ATEME
Published: ASIA
TAIWAN: Taiwan Broadcasting System (TBS) recently selected ATEME’s MPEG-4 Kyrion encoders to rollout HD for digital terrestrial television. The public broadcasting group owns eight television channels in Taiwan, and is said to be playing a ‘key role’ in the move towards digitisation in Taiwan.
‘ATEME proposed a very attractive solution for our project,’ commented Chin-chang Chen, engineering manager, TBS. ‘This is a complex system, for which we need absolute reliability as a public broadcaster, at an affordable cost. ATEME’s solution came out on top against all of our selection criteria.’
‘We packed one HD MPEG-4 and three SD MPEG-2 channels in less than 15Mbps, and yet the video quality is super,’ added Chao-I Lee, who supervised the deployment of the system at the broadcasting centre on behalf of TBS’ engineering department. ‘We were also quite impressed with the fast response of ATEME’s support every time we needed their help during the launch.’
‘We provide a very competitive offer for terrestrial broadcasters,’ said Kim Gravina, APAC sales manager, ATEME. ‘Our ability to deliver top quality systems at a reasonable cost is key to our success in Taiwan and in other parts of the world.’