Dish HD Asia launches first worldwide all-HEVC DTH service

Staff writer
28 Jan 2016
00:00

Dish HD Asia has selected the ViBE VS7000 HEVC encoder from Thomson Video Networks to drive its new Ultra HD 4K and all-HEVC-HD satellite service upgrade for delivery of more than 120 channels to viewers throughout Northeast Asia.

This major system upgrade is expected to deliver significant video quality improvements, as well as cost- and bandwidth-saving HEVC compression for the DISH HD platform.

"Dish HD was the pioneer of HD satellite pay-TV services in Asia," said Bert Klein, managing director, Dish HD. “Now, with this major system upgrade, subscribers can now enjoy Ultra HD 4K and HEVC HD channels, and we have doubled our channel capacity and introduced a new Ultra HD 4K HEVC set-top box."

Wai Hoong Tham, director of networks and broadcast for Dish HD, said that with the upgrade, the company has moved away from MPEG-4 and is now a fully HEVC satellite DTH network, enjoying significant bandwidth efficiencies and savings through Thomson Video Networks' ViBE VS7000.

"More importantly, as a satellite service, we saw that we could only meet our requirements for 1080i and statistical multiplexing with the VS7000, which has allowed us to deliver new channels to our subscribers,” the director said.

Thomson Video Networks' partner, Ideal Systems HK, provided systems integration and installation for the DISH HD service, which leverages powerful new HEVC features built into the latest version of the ViBE VS7000.

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