{"id":72121,"date":"2016-01-23T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/harmonic-and-asiasat-team-up-to-launch-new-ultra-hd-channel\/"},"modified":"2016-01-23T00:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:04:09","slug":"harmonic-and-asiasat-team-up-to-launch-new-ultra-hd-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/harmonic-and-asiasat-team-up-to-launch-new-ultra-hd-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmonic and AsiaSat Team up to Launch New Ultra-HD Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 01-22-2016] <b>Harmonic <\/b>and <b>AsiaSat <\/b>have entered a partnership to launch a new Ultra-HD channel \u201c4K-SAT2\/HVN,\u201d AsiaSat\u2019s second Free-to-Air (FTA) Ultra-HD channel on AsiaSat 4 at 122 degrees east for the Asia Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>The channel, which launches on March 1, will broadcast 4K video content from Harmonic\u2019s broad video library, as well as content from the new <b>NASA<\/b> TV Ultra-HD channel, in 2160p60 with HEVC Main 10 profile, using an end-to-end Ultra-HD video processing system from Harmonic. Harmonic and NASA jointly launched NASA TV Ultra-HD in North America late last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Ultra-HD channels on AsiaSat 4\u2019s Ultra-HD platform are available FTA across the satellite\u2019s footprint, which spans from New Zealand to Pakistan and part of the Middle East. The new \u201c4K-SAT2\/HVN\u201d Ultra-HD channel deploys Harmonic\u2019s MediaGrid shared storage system; Polaris playout management suite; Spectrum X advanced media server system; and the Electra X3 Ultra-HD media processor, to enable full Ultra-HD channel production and transmission from AsiaSat\u2019s Tai Po Earth Station in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 01-22-2016] Harmonic and AsiaSat have entered a partnership to launch a new Ultra-HD channel \u201c4K-SAT2\/HVN,\u201d AsiaSat\u2019s second Free-to-Air (FTA) Ultra-HD channel on AsiaSat 4 at 122 degrees east for the Asia Pacific. The channel, which launches on March 1, will broadcast 4K video content from Harmonic\u2019s broad video library, as well as content [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64084,"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-72121","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\/72121"}],"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=72121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}