{"id":87391,"date":"2010-03-09T01:35:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/osn-hooks-up-with-harmonic-for-hd\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T01:35:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:35:52","slug":"osn-hooks-up-with-harmonic-for-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/osn-hooks-up-with-harmonic-for-hd\/","title":{"rendered":"OSN Hooks up with Harmonic for HD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-08-10] <strong>OSN<\/strong>, a DTH operator in the Middle East, is deploying <strong>Harmonic<\/strong>\u2019s digital headend solutions to power OSN\u2019s recently launched HD video service, Harmonic announced March 4.  \t<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; OSN selected Harmonic\u2019s Electra 8000 multi-channel universal encoder to deliver the HD service as well as for an upgrade of its SD channel lineup from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4. As part of the network upgrade, OSN also implemented Harmonic\u2019s ProStream 1000 stream processing platform for bulk scrambling and descrambling, and NMX Digital Service Manager to monitor and control the entire video service. \t<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe bandwidth efficiency and outstanding video quality offered by Harmonic\u2019s Electra 8000 platform enabled us to add new HD services in a bandwidth efficient way. The multi-codec capabilities and support for SD and HD services within a single encoder are also very attractive features that give us tremendous flexibility as we migrate our SD services from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4,\u201d Mike Whittaker, vice president, broadcast operations and technology, OSN, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-08-10] OSN, a DTH operator in the Middle East, is deploying Harmonic\u2019s digital headend solutions to power OSN\u2019s recently launched HD video service, Harmonic announced March 4. &nbsp;&nbsp; OSN selected Harmonic\u2019s Electra 8000 multi-channel universal encoder to deliver the HD service as well as for an upgrade of its SD channel lineup from MPEG-2 to [&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-87391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87391"}],"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=87391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}