{"id":68062,"date":"2017-06-13T18:53:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T10:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/harmonic-almatel-kazakhstan-launch-joint-hevc-dth-service-2\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T18:53:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T10:53:34","slug":"harmonic-almatel-kazakhstan-launch-joint-hevc-dth-service-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/harmonic-almatel-kazakhstan-launch-joint-hevc-dth-service-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmonic, Almatel Kazakhstan Launch Joint HEVC DTH Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harmonic<\/strong> announced that <strong>Almatel Kazakhstan<\/strong>, operating under the brand name <strong>Alma TV<\/strong>, has augmented its cable television service with the launch of a Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite television platform using Harmonic\u2019s High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) video compression solution.<\/p>\n<p>Harmonic\u2019s Electra X media processing platform allows Alma TV to deliver Standard Definition (SD), High Definition (HD) and Ultra-HD channels across&nbsp;Kazakhstan&nbsp;with increased bandwidth efficiency by leveraging the HEVC video codec. According to Harmonic, Alma TV can also use the software-based Electra X system to adopt new formats and codecs in the future, including 4K\/UHD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing able to deliver around 140 SD and HD channels from the same DTH platform improves efficiencies and gives us a competitive edge in the marketplace, attracting new subscribers,\u201d said Eric Franke, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Almatel Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>With extra bandwidth at its disposal, Alma TV has launched a Ultra-HD channel and is planning to expand its Ultra-HD offering in the future to increase revenue streams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harmonic announced that Almatel Kazakhstan, operating under the brand name Alma TV, has augmented its cable television service with the launch of a Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite television platform using Harmonic\u2019s High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) video compression solution. Harmonic\u2019s Electra X media processing platform allows Alma TV to deliver Standard Definition (SD), High Definition (HD) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}