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BBC makes inlet into multi-screen technology
Editor ©RapidTVNews | 18-08-2010
The BBC has made strategic investment in technologies that will support live broadcast to multiple platforms and devices.
Inlet Technologies, who claims to be a leader in solutions for digital media preparation, has announced that the BBC will use its Spinnaker family of live streaming appliances as part of simulcast expansion plans for a number of channels including premier sporting events.
“I am delighted that we have this privileged and exciting opportunity to support the BBC’s growing simulcast plans,” said Michael Barros, senior vice president, Sales and Marketing, for Inlet Technologies. “We are particularly pleased to be able to support their converged service offering through a single platform. Spinnaker‘s new software features such as PAL subtitling, are also critical to supporting the BBC’s ‘accessibility’ mandate.”
The encoding solution is said to be uniquely suited for simulcast and live sports as it provides broadcast-quality streams over any IP network to multiple screens and devices. Spinnaker simultaneously supports SD/HD video inputs as well as multiple codec support for web and mobile based video services.
The Spinnaker encoder also has a 24/7 capability to support the BBC’s operations and commitment to its high availability service.
