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June 23, 2008
Avail Media Launches Ever-Growing All-MPEG-4 HD Service
By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributing Editor
Avail Media has launched its ever-growing, all-MPEG-4 HD channel lineup that provides the highest-quality picture with reduced bandwidth costs.
Avail Media's HD offering is designed to provide video service providers with an easy and profitable path to delivering world-class IPTV
services.
services.
"HD programming is becoming the new must have for providers of television services," said Ramu Potarazu, CEO of Avail Media.
"Avail Media is about providing a stable platform from which we can continually grow new, value-added services for our affiliates. We recognize today that HD content is critical for our affiliates. For cable systems that need HD programming but lack bandwidth, telephone networks with limited, last-mile capabilities, or fiber-to-the-home providers in search of quality HD offerings, Avail Media's HD solutions provide cost-effective and subscriber-ready solutions,” explained Potarazu.
Avail Media is the product of a merger of two successful IPTV (News - Alert) companies, followed by the acquisition of an equally successful VOD provider. Avail Media provides managed content aggregation services through a fully-integrated, head-end infrastructure for the profitable deployment of IP video.
video. The Avail Media solution includes a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality-encoded in MPEG-4, IP-encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD, and designed for future value-added services. Avail Media's solutions have been designed for digital video providers of all types, including triple-play, quad-play and pure video play.
Avail Media claims to be the only provider today delivering a combined MPEG-4 linear IPTV and Video On Demand (VOD) solution, providing video service providers with all of the content, technology, hardware, and integration needed for a fully-encrypted, market-ready IPTV service.
"Avail Media's robust MPEG-4 HD distribution is the obvious next step for many cable television operators wanting to regain and reallocate bandwidth for the multiple services they now offer," according to Bill Bauer, CEO of Beyond Broadband Technology, which uses the Avail Media service as part of its end-to-end solution for cable operators, in a statement.
"It's unique in providing next-generation MPEG-4 delivery,” added Bauer.
Avail HD is designed to deliver an attractive channel lineup while maximizing infrastructure investments.
Anil Sharma is a TMCnet Contributing Editor.
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