Japan's JSAT Trials Tandberg MPEG-4 AVC HD Compression

TOKYO, Nov. 15, 2005/Satnews Daily/ — Tandberg Television (Oslo:TAT) said on Monday Japanese satellite operator JSAT Corp. has deployed its advanced compression technology as part of a Japanese government-funded trial for the direct to home delivery of high definition video over satellite.

Tandberg said JSAT chose its advanced first-to-market MPEG-4 AVC HD EN5990 encoding system with statistical multiplexing for maximum bandwidth efficiency.

The project is designed to test the suitability of MPEG-4 AVC HD technology for the Japanese satellite market and expands upon JSAT’s previous deployment of Tandberg Television's digital TV solutions for content distribution. JSAT delivers content for customers including SKY PerfecTV!, Japan's largest satellite digital broadcasting service with a subscriber base of 3.9 million.

“We are very pleased with the successful deployment of Tandberg’s MPEG-4 AVC technology,” said Toshiaki Baba, general manager of JSAT. He said JSAT opted for the Tandberg system because it optimizes bandwidth utilization and is the only field-tested MPEG-4 AVC HD encoding system commercially available.

He added the project is being backed financially by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology to find a solution to maximize the efficiency of Japan's satellite operations.

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