{"id":86248,"date":"2010-09-10T20:52:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T12:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/on-digital-media-launches-harmonic-powered-pay-tv-service-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2010-09-10T20:52:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T12:52:28","slug":"on-digital-media-launches-harmonic-powered-pay-tv-service-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/on-digital-media-launches-harmonic-powered-pay-tv-service-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"On Digital Media Launches Harmonic-Powered Pay-TV Service in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Digital Media<\/strong> (ODM) has deployed <strong>Harmonic<\/strong>\u2019s digital video head-end solutions to power its new TopTV pay TV service in South Africa. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The head-end system includes Harmonic\u2019s Electra 5400 MPEG-4 AVC  (H.264) multi-channel encoders and the ProStream 1000 stream processing  platform with DiviTrackIP statistical multiplexing<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TopTV\u2019s channels are sent over IP via Seacom\u2019s undersea fiber optic  cable and are received at TopTV\u2019s teleport in Germany where they are  multiplexed with the remaining channels on another Harmonic headend  system. The complete 52-channel line-up is then uplinked to the <strong>SES World Skies<\/strong>\u2019 Sirius 4 Ku-band satellite over Africa and delivered to the consumer via a compact set-top box.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe advanced capabilities of Harmonic\u2019s integrated IP-based headend  technologies allowed us to efficiently and quickly launch the new TopTV  service. In addition, Harmonic\u2019s compression and stream processing  solution provides a superior quality viewing experience for our  subscribers,\u201d ODM COO Frans Lindeque said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Digital Media (ODM) has deployed Harmonic\u2019s digital video head-end solutions to power its new TopTV pay TV service in South Africa. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The head-end system includes Harmonic\u2019s Electra 5400 MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) multi-channel encoders and the ProStream 1000 stream processing platform with DiviTrackIP statistical multiplexing &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TopTV\u2019s channels are sent over IP via Seacom\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-86248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86248"}],"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=86248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}