Thursday, June 25, 2015

Telairity Provides Encoding for the XV Pacific Games

The start of the XV Pacific Games is just under a week away and we’re excited to announce that Telairity will be providing encoder and decoder lines to the Games. Our equipment will be provided by MiseOpoint, an Oceania-based systems provider.

The multinational games will feature athletes from 22 island nations and will take place in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea from July 4-18, 2015. The games were created in 1962 to foster friendship among the Pacific Islands by bringing together different cultures, ideas and interests all united under sport. Held every four years the Pacific Games has a wide selection of sports, including track and field, swimming, lawn bowling, and “va’a” or boat races. Some of the participating nations are American Samoa, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Australia, and New Zealand.

More than 3,000 men and women athletes will compete in 28 different sports in nine separate venues throughout Port Moresby and the Games are viewed by attending athletes as a warm up for 2016’s Olympic Games in Brazil.

Telairity will be providing our BE7100 and BE8100 encoder lines as well as our popular BE5502 Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) to the nine different venues to ensure a multi-format, low-latency transmission path for the live game coverage. The IRD is a full-featured professional 4:2:0 MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC (MPEG-4) HD/SD integrated receiver and decoder for broadcasters, cable operators, and telecoms. The BE7100 encoder is scalable, fully programmable, low latency broadcast quality encoder for standard definition format. For HD video compression in real time we offer our 8000 series encoders.

Viewers around the world will watch the Pacific Games via the LiveStream Internet video service while Oceania Broadcasters will downlink a 4 channel multiplex from Intelsat 19. All signals will be transmitted via IP to the International Broadcast Center (IBC), and redistributed over the Pacific by satellite for video and Internet viewing. All broadcasts will be available in French and English. IBC will provide the English broadcast and the French-language feed will be from France Televisions to French-language territories.


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