EUTELSAT HOSTS TWO HDTV BROADCASTS AT IBC
September 10 to 14, Rai Exhibition Centre, Amsterdam
Hall 1 Stand 465
Eutelsat, of the world's leading satellite operators is hosting two high-definition television demonstrations on its stand during this year's IBC in Amsterdam.
One of the signals is coordinated by the HD Forum which was set up in July this year by manufacturers, publishers, broadcasters, producers and distributors in order to facilitate the launch of high-definition television in France. An HD signal with MPEG 2 encoding is being uplinked from the headquarters of TF1, the largest broadcasting group in France, to capacity on Eutelsat's ATLANTIC BIRD™ 3 satellite and shown on Eutelsat's stand on Sagem's Axium HD-compatible television.
A second broadcast, by BBC Broadcast Ltd., (a commercial subsidiary of the BBC) is being uplinked direct from the Broadcast Centre in London to capacity on Eutelsat's e-BIRD satellite and shown on Eutelsat's stand on a Panasonic HD-compatible television. Also encoded in MPEG2, the broadcast comprises HD content from BBC Worldwide, including an episode of Blue Peter and an extract of the natural history programme Planet Earth. Planet Earth, which delivers in 2006, is a major production with Discovery and NHK, and is the first major factual programme delivered in HD by the BBC.