International Datacasting Corporation, (TSX:IDC) has received a new order from MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH, based in Germany, for satellite network equipment to be used in the expansion and initial operational rollout of their digital cinema service in Europe. The value of the contract has not been disclosed for competitive reasons.

MEDIA BROADCAST's core business is the planning, installation, and operation of multimedia transmission platforms for television and radio companies using satellite and cable distribution. Their Digital Cinema service offering provides studios and other content providers with a complete solution from the ingestion of content, high professional satellite platform, through to local in-theatre caching systems. The equipment to be supplied by IDC expands the MEDIA BROADCAST digital cinema service by providing high speed secure delivery of large movie files as well as live alternative content in 2D and/or 3D format. The equipment is IDC's latest SuperFlex DVB-S2 broadband satellite caching receiver, the SFX4104 Pro Video, bundled with Datacast XD content management and distribution software for movie delivery. The SuperFlex receivers also provide real-time decoding of MPEG 2 and MPEG 4 HD video for live events and can be expanded by using 3D decoding technology licensed by IDC from partner Sensio™ Technologies.