Ateme and Foxtel have collaborated to announce the deployment of a standards conversion service allowing Australians to watch TV content from all around the world.
The Foxtel-owned services leverages Ateme’s content acquisition and distribution solutions through the TITAN suite. With this platform, content from around the world can be obtained and converted to Australian TV standards nationwide via two data centres in Sydney.
The platform is fully IP-enabled and relies on dual-site redundancy, with the ability to ingest any channel to simultaneously produce multiple streams in real-time, enable closed captioning, and more.
Matthew Carter, head of broadcast engineering and projects at Foxtel, commented: “Acquiring international content and converting it to local standards can be a complex undertaking, given the varying video standards used worldwide, and different frame rates and resolutions add to the complexity. We needed a solution that would simplify the task and facilitate closed captioning. Ateme’s full-IP solution met these needs, making our workflow simple, efficient, and scalable, while ensuring business continuity.”
Ramesh De Silva, sales director (Oceania) at Ateme, concluded: “With increasing competition for viewers, serving the right content is essential. We are excited to continue our development in Australia and are honoured to have collaborated with Foxtel to enable a global content offering to Australian viewers. We will continuously support Foxtel in its holistic digital transformation to sustain its leadership in the Australian market.”