TITAN Live For IPTV 4K-UHD Channel

ATEME has revealed that Basmedia, a centralized and decentralized playout service provider, is to use TITAN Live to launch 'Festival 4K', the HEVC UHD service.

TITAN Live is a virtualized software-based encoder-transcoder, with support for HEVC, H264 and MPEG2. It supports resolutions from mobile devices to 4K-UHD, including:

• Premium video quality. TITAN Live is based on ATEME's fifth generation STREAM compression engine, enabling both high CBR VQ at minimum bitrate and QAM density increase without compromising video quality.

• Future-proof and easily scalable. TITAN Live can be upgraded to support HEVC and 4K-UHD, ensuring customers deploying H264 services with an upgrade path to HEVC and monetization of their hardware investment.

• True software-based solution. This CPU solution is hardware agnostic, delivering high VQ at high density without the need any hardware acceleration.

"Basmedia is always searching for innovative partners to provide solutions for breakthrough channels like Festival 4K," said Bas Ardesc, Basmedia. "The TITAN Live enables us to offer 4K-UHD services, using COTS servers, while delivering high video quality with high density for our customers."

Emmanuel Boureau, VP Sales, ATEME, added: "TITAN Live enabled Festival 4K to launch as the first 100% 4K-UHD native channel in France. Our future-proof solution has been smoothly deployed by various tier 1 broadcasters and service providers all around the world due to our global experience in UHD deployments, as well seamless integration with TV Globo eco-system, from the CDN to mobile device players and set-top-boxes."

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(JP/LM)