CMC, SES Americom deal could benefit small ops.(Comcast Media Center)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, August, 2005 by Stump, Matt

The Comcast Media Center and SES Americom announced a joint deal to encode and distribute analog channels in digital form for cable's digital simulcast needs. Currently, the CMC is using three transponders on SES's AMC-4 satellite to deliver digitized analog channels to Comcast Corp. systems for digital simulcast.

That will expand from six to eight channels, and be available to all MSOs, according to Gary Traver, senior vice president and chief operating officer of the CMC and Bryan McGuirk, president of North American media services for SES Americom. Traver said the CMC, which provides 160 video channels via its Headend in the Sky service, has been upgrading its encoding equipment, using Motorola Inc.'s pure pixel compression to create the best...

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