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12/06/2002

Digital Vision’s pre-mastering workstations sold to HBO

Digital Vision have announced the sale of two BitPack-SD pre-mastering workstations to HBO in New York.
HBO, a division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, provide 28 digital feeds of its two 24-hour premium TV services of HBO and Cinemax to subscribers across the US.
“HBO have purchased BitPack-SD Encoders because of its superior quality, ability to be automated and its single-pass capability of allowing AC-3 multiplexing in real-time,” said, Dominic Serio, Senior Vice President HBO Studios and Broadcasting Operations.
Thorbjörn Gustafsson, Managing Director of Digital Vision (US), said: "BitPack’s reputation as the leading system for those with the most demanding requirements both in terms of picture quality and flexibility of operation is reinforced with the decision by HBO to choose BitPack.
"We are delighted to announce the sale to such a big-name customer."
The market-leading BitPack product range is a complete pre-mastering solution for standard and/or high definition, video on demand, DVD, digital cinema and digital archiving. It uses Digital Vision’s industry-standard DVNR pre-processor tools and proprietary encoding engine, to produce MPEG-2 elementary, program, and transport streams.
Digital Vision was founded in 1988 and the company is comprised of the Swedish parent company and a sales company in the US. The company is dedicated to the development, the production and the sales and support of systems.
Digital Vision, www.digitalvision.se
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