{"id":70401,"date":"2016-07-28T01:19:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T17:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-ships-hevc-stbs-to-us-cable-operators-for-ultra-hd-trials\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T01:19:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T17:19:20","slug":"ses-ships-hevc-stbs-to-us-cable-operators-for-ultra-hd-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-ships-hevc-stbs-to-us-cable-operators-for-ultra-hd-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Ships HEVC STBs to US Cable Operators for Ultra-HD Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-27-2016] <strong>SES <\/strong>is shipping 4K\/High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) Set Top Boxes (STBs) to cable operators participating in Ultra-HD trials across the United States. The cable operators are testing Ultra-HD content across SES\u2019 fully managed Ultra-HD platform and receiving the IP STBs in preparation for subscriber trials into U.S. households later this year.<\/p>\n<p>SES has signed Ultra-HD trial agreements with <strong>Cable America <\/strong>in Missouri, <strong>Golden West Telecommunications <\/strong>in South Dakota, <strong>MTC Cable <\/strong>in New York, <strong>Sjoberg\u2019s Cable TV <\/strong>in Minnesota, and <strong>ATMC <\/strong>in North Carolina. The cable operators can use the multicasting capability of the DOCSIS 3.0 transmission standard and traditional digital TV to deliver a wide range of linear and live Ultra-HD programming to subscriber homes. According to SES, the operator\u2019s managed solution, delivered over dedicated bandwidth, provides a much higher quality viewer experience free of buffering and network congestion, compared to current internet-delivered 4K offerings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs millions of cable subscribers increasingly press for 4K content on their new Ultra-HD TVs, some of the smallest cable operators in the U.S. are now leading the way to bringing Ultra-HD to homes across the country,\u201d said Steve Corda, VP of business development in North America at SES. \u201cSES\u2019 breakthrough, fully-managed Ultra-HD platform is enabling us to conduct the first-ever trials, which are bound to play a key role in the national and global rollout of Ultra-HD.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SES is currently carrying four Ultra-HD channels on satellites, including <strong>Fashion One 4K<\/strong>, <strong>NASA TV UHD<\/strong>, and <strong>High 4K TV<\/strong>. The fourth choice is the operator\u2019s own UHD1 channel, a venue for up-and-coming content producers creating Ultra-HD material with an eye toward ultimately launching their own Ultra-HD channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-27-2016] SES is shipping 4K\/High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) Set Top Boxes (STBs) to cable operators participating in Ultra-HD trials across the United States. The cable operators are testing Ultra-HD content across SES\u2019 fully managed Ultra-HD platform and receiving the IP STBs in preparation for subscriber trials into U.S. households later this year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70402,"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-70401","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\/70401"}],"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=70401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}