MCS TV selects ATEME to power new 4KTV channel


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| 06 January 2016




French ALTICE Group subsidiary MCS TV has chosen compatriot ATEME to provide 4K-enabling technology to support its new Ultra HD channel.



The independent French TV channel dedicated to sports will be launched in France on cable and optical fibre networks, before being exported abroad in the coming months. It will deploy ATEME’s TITAN File system for the transcoding of 4K content in HEVC for its play-out server and TITAN 4K for the transmission of live events.

Designed for cable, DTH, and OTT, the TITAN software compression distribution solution includes SDI and IP I/O’s, encoder, transcoder, multiplexer, statmux, packager and origin server. It is designed to address main screen and multiscreen applications, from mobile resolutions up to UHDp60.

“We choose TITAN ... based on the products’ degree of maturity and reliability and its ability to evolve to suit future Ultra HD formats,” said Mickael Czmara, CTO at MCS TV. “Using pure software solutions running on COTS HW provides the flexibility we need, and will also lead to additional financial and operational efficiencies across this area of our business.”

Added ATEME director of sales Claude Stoffel: “Since TITAN is a future-proof solution, with a path to 4K-UHD HEVC, HDR and BT.2020 colour space, it has been largely approved, adopted and deployed by various tier 1 broadcasters and service providers all around the world.”