Wednesday 20 August 2014

CQ-Tata Sky migrates 50% customers to MPEG-4

In its endevour to over comes the transponder shortage to increase channels on the platform. Tata Sky has decided to switch to more efficient compression system of MPEG-4 that others in the industry are already begun using.
Huge orders for six million MPEG-4 boxes were given to Broadcom to replace all the initial MPEG-2 boxes that it had seeded at customer home with MPEG-4. Now the DTH operator has converted nearly half of its MPEG-2 subscriber base to MPEG-4.
 With this compression technique, the DTH operator has managed to fit three channels in the space of two in its existing transponder space. In the last one year three million MPEG-2 boxes have been swapped adding 50 crore channels.
Tata Sky's signals are being beamed off Insat 4A; but it had signed a contract to lease 12 transponders on ISRO's GSAT-10 satellite around six years ago which have not been delivered to Tata Sky yet, even after the satellite launched in to space in September 2012.
Tata Sky is continuing to add more channels to its regional packs, despite the fact that it hasn’t got any additional transponder capacity. 
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/dth-news/item/5743-cq-tata-sky-migrates-50-customers-to-mpeg-4.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/dth-news/item/5743-cq-tata-sky-migrates-50-customers-to-mpeg-4.html

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