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19/11/2007

Malaysian Media Prima Berhad To Use Complete Range Of Digital Rapids Systems

Digital Rapids has announced that Media Prima Berhad, a leading media group in Malaysia, is using a complete range of Digital Rapids systems to power Catch-Up TV, their new online TV-on-demand service.
Catch-Up TV enables Web users to view previously-broadcast programs from Media Prima's four television networks “TV3, ntv7, 8TV and TV9“ online, enabling viewers to watch current and classic programming on demand at high quality.
Designed by Digital Rapids and installed by systems integrator Graphics Vision (M) Sdn. Bhd., the Media Prima Catch-Up TV workflow includes a full complement of Digital Rapids solutions:

  • StreamZ media encoding servers equipped with the Digital Rapids Studio AVC Encoder ingest, encode, stream and archive live feeds from the four broadcast television networks in H.264 and Adobe Flash 8 (On2 VP6) formats

  • Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager enterprise-level encoder management software provides centralized control, scheduling and fault tolerance for the StreamZ systems

  • Digital Rapids Copper data delivery software, integrated with Transcode Manager, provides accelerated, secure and reliable transfer of finished on-demand media files from Media Prima to Limelight Networks, the Content Delivery Network (CDN) used for delivering the content to Media Prima's viewers

  • The StreamP portable streaming media encoder is used on a laptop for encoding remote on-location feeds, and transferring them back to headquarters using Copper to overcome the performance limitations of remote networks


Shows will be available free on Catch-Up TV online within no more than 12 hours of their original broadcast, and after one week will be moved into the archive library for fee-based viewing. Original content including Internet exclusives, behind-the-scenes footage, bloopers and contests will also be available to Web viewers.
"To meet our goal of becoming the online TV destination of choice for Malaysians, it was critical for us to carefully choose solutions that would enable us to deliver a high-quality experience to our audience with high reliability," said Paul Moss, General Manager for Network Media Portals at Media Prima.
"Digital Rapids solutions not only met these criteria, but their ability to work seamlessly together in a complete workflow from encoding through delivery made them the ideal choice for this project. I'm happy to say that we already have online delivery down to four hours after a programmes' on-air transmission."
"Each of our solutions offers market-leading benefits on its own, but by combining them seamlessly to form complete ingest-through-delivery workflows, the result is even more powerful than the sum of its components," said Brick Eksten, President of Digital Rapids Corporation.
"With Catch-Up TV, Media Prima is taking excellent advantage of the growing new media distribution opportunities offered by the Internet, and we're very pleased to be working with Media Prima to deliver top-quality content to their viewers," he said.
For more information on Digital Rapids products, visit:
www.digital-rapids.com
(DS)

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