RRsat Launches New
High Definition Playout Center
(13 March 2008) RRsat Global
Communications Network Ltd., a rapidly growing provider of comprehensive
content management and global distribution services to the television and radio
broadcasting industries, announced today the inauguration of a new High
Definition ("HD") playout centre.
Based on advanced technology,
the new playout facility is capable of providing end-to-end HD services,
including high resolution graphics and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. This
new installation will expand the playout services we currently provide to more
than 90 channels, as well as the global distribution services we supply to more
than 400 TV and Radio channels.
RRsat's premier infrastructure enables
the receipt of transmission content from all continents, over a broad variety
of transmission mediums, as well as the ability to convert these materials into
a variety of formats. Leveraging its Global Network, including its broad
satellite partner base and advanced fibre optic infrastructure, RRsat will
offer world-wide HD content delivery.
"We are very excited to be adding
this premier, and all encompassing, playout centre," commented David Rivel,
Founder and CEO of RRsat. "This new HD playout centre is another major step in
enhancing and developing our broad, advanced, end-to-end product offering, by
enabling us to offer our customers with advanced services and technologies, in
an efficient and economical manner, under one roof, creating a true broadcast
centre for clients of all sizes, the world over."
Ziv Mor, Chief
Technology Officer of RRsat commented: "Over the past 12 months we have been
closely reviewing and analysing the different facets of the fast growing High
Definition technology, while studying our customer's needs and evolving market
demands, with a view to further enhancing our end-to-end product offering. Our
new and advanced HD playout centre has been designed to leverage our long
standing experience and broad customer base, and will include advanced and
leading technological equipment, enabling us to continue to meet and address
the evolving and ever growing demands of our client and the
market."
About RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd.
RRsat
Global Communications Network Ltd. provides global, comprehensive, content
management and distribution services to the rapidly expanding television and
radio broadcasting industries. Through its proprietary "RRsat Global Network,"
composed of satellite and terrestrial fibre optic transmission capacity and the
public Internet, RRsat is able to offer high-quality and flexible global
distribution services for content providers. RRsat's comprehensive content
management services include producing and playing out TV content as well as
providing satellite newsgathering services (SNG). RRsat concurrently provide
these services to more than 400 television and radio channels, covering more
than 150 countries.
(source: RRSat Global Communications
Network)
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