Harmonic Inc. is selling its digital-television headend hardware configuration to Softbank Broadmedia Corp., which operates a digital subscriber line network in Japan. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, January, 2003
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- Harmonic Inc. is selling its digital-television headend hardware configuration to Softbank Broadmedia Corp., which operates a digital subscriber line network in Japan. Softbank is marketing a content package to DSL providers, including Yahool Broadband in Japan, which plans to offer Soft bank content to its one million plus asynchronous DSL subscribers. Softbank will use Harmonic's DiviCom digital video-compression system for real-time encoding of broadcast channels. Harmonic also will pre-encode content that will be stored on Softbank's video-on-demand servers. The company said subscribers will be able to watch broadcast video and VOD services on existing TV sets by using an Internet protocol-based set-top box.
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