The Second Data Centre

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Playout247 announced that their second data centre at Cleveland Street, London location will go into operation end of July 07. Data centre has capacity to host 120 servers and will be primarily dedicated to Internet TV related services. It will provide centre-point for data distribution to Playout247 collocated on-line servers distributing TV and VoD media over broadband direct to home.

In addition Playout247 revealed that construction of studio 4 was started with planned completion date some time in second half of September. Studio will be equipped with robotic cameras and Darim 3D virtual set. Studio will be available for long or ad-hoc hire; numerous virtual set templates will be provided. Part of the service will be free of charge virtual set template modifications and branding and custom production of virtual set graphics at break through industry pricing.

To pre-book studio or book Darim virtual set demo please contact Tanya@Playout247.com.

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Press Release - New Pay-As-You-Go Services

Fri, 11 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Press Release - 11th May 2007 - Playout247™ expanded their Internet-TV platform with Pay-As-You-Go per usage billing for VoD and streaming service. Many other new features were added to the most comprehensive Internet-TV solution on the market. New system is already in full service and providing commercial solution to a number of operators.

Playout247 launched their new generation service today providing an Internet-TV head-end and Internet-TV Portal hosting including front-end custom development re-branding service as part of the package. Playout247 is currently hosting a number of video portals and streaming many TV channels at high quality providing a viewer experience equal to that offered by satellite platforms. In addition, Playou247 is due to launch a new “Global Movies” portal which will deliver variety of movies and soaps from around the world assorted in eight content sections:- Hollywood, Bollywood, Nollywood, Latino, CineChina, FilmRussia, Arabia and Exotic Cinema. Playout247 is working with key ISPs and worldwide Tier-1 backbone operators to provide signal distribution to over 350 million broadband homes worldwide. To provide secure content delivery, Playout247 have implemented Microsoft DRM, while complete Internet-TV head-end solution is based on Internet open standards and compatible with all Internet-TV compliant set-top-boxes. Playout247’s VisionIP portal engine is providing the application front and back end. With a mission to provide a complete solution across the market, Matt Vidmar – Chairman and CTO explained: “Playout247 enables new business models by providing a contemporary technology base with broadcast facility services for content owners, portal operators and ISPs aiming to deliver the best entertainment experience to a global audiences. Having facilitated the broadcast industry from 1991 we understand that the television audience requires the same quality standard irrespective of delivery network. This pushed us to develop player engine which delivers satellite quality over the public internet to any broadband home. We are very proud that we are one of the leading companies delivering next generation TV to the market and pioneering similar to, but on a larger scale than the DVB revolution when it invigorated and expanded the TV industry… yet again.”

Please contact Playout247 via email info@playout247.com for an in-depth demo of the complete Front-end and Back-end VisionIP InternetTV Solution.

Additional information is available at www.playout247.com in the IPTV Services section. System demo is available at http://demo.visionip.tv/Demo/.

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Launch of the new IPTV service

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Playout247 launched today new IPTV Service which provides Internet IPTV head-end and IPTV Portal re-branding and custom development including hosting.

Playout247 launched today new IPTV Service which provides Internet IPTV head-end and IPTV Portal re-branding and custom development including hosting. Playout247 is already streaming number of TV channels at high quality to provide equal experience as viewers are used to from the satellite platforms. In addition a number of IPTV Portal sites are launched and operational in the final release candidate faze. Over the next month follow up press releases from many partners will reveal details about Asian, Christian, general entrainment, Russian and Greek portal projects which are starting commercial business operation in the next few weeks. Playout247 is working with key ISPs and worldwide backbone operators who will provide the distribution of the signal to near 280 million homes worldwide. Playout247 implemented Microsoft DRM to provide secure content delivery. Solution is based on Internet open standard and compatible with all Internet IPTV compliant set-top-boxes. Playout247 is focused to provide complete solution across the market, best summarised by Matt Vidmar – Chairman and CTO, who explained: “Playout247 enables the new business model by providing a complete technology base and broadcast facility services to content owners, portal operators and ISPs to jointly deliver the best entertainment experience to a global audience. We were working in stealth mode for over two years building our facility and software, recognising that only operational service means real business.”

Please contact Playout247 via email info@playout247.com for an in-depth demo of the complete Front-end and Back-end IPTV Solution.

Additional information is available at www.playout247.com in IPTV-Services section.

About the company:

Playout247™ is a leading provider of automated networked broadcast transmission services for all types of broadcasting. With many years of experience in the development of broadcasting centres, we have an unrivalled knowledge and understanding of our customers’ broadcasting needs. Based in London with a worldwide partner network, we pride ourselves on providing secure and friendly environment, exclusively tailored to meet the individual broadcasting requirements. Playout247™ motto is to provide high-quality, reliable, cost-effective TV and IPTV broadcast facilities 24 hours a day.

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BEN TV Expands

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

BEN TV Expands with New Live Shows from Brand New Playout247 Studio-2.

BEN TV launched number of new live shows from new studio facility which provides 2.5D virtual reality. Chroma-key background based shows are much faster to set-up and enabled BEN to make channel look much more dynamic.

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New Prime TV Channel

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Prime Launches Second TV Channel.

Prime network launched their second TV channel for Pan European and Middle East audience. The channel name is “Prime UK” and is transmitted from HotBird satellite.

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Job opportunity in dynamic rapidly growing Playout247

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Playout247 tripled the business over the last twelve months and is now playing ten channels on satellite and thirty-seven on internet.

Eleven new satellite playout channels were signed recently and will be launched until the end of March 2008; on IPTV/Internet side of the business the launch pipeline is paced at two new channels per month.

Due to increased workload Playout247 is looking to immediately recruit new operators and software developers. Please browse www.playout247.com/job-opportunity/ page for list of required personnel and please feel free to email your CV and apply for the interview.

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Digital Traffic ready for test launch

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Playout247 announces the launch of Digital Traffic, a new service providing TV platforms with a one-stop shop for video content delivery.

Utilising our secure private fibre connections, we can receive very high quality video masters from content suppliers around the world which can be transcoded to the specific stream requirements of a TV platform and exported directly into editing systems.

Our highly automated process supports all major codecs and we also offer full metadata and quality assurance services. Digital Traffic enables significant op-ex and cap-ex savings by removing the need for platforms to receive and process tape-based content. Please see the full specification at www.playout247.com/DigitalTraffic

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Playout247 expands connectivity

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Playout247 expands connectivity to Eutelsat’s Skylogic teleport in Torino

Private fibre link to Skylogic teleport facilitating Kabel Kiosk platform was signed operational end of January 2008. In addition Playout247 is expanding private fibre links to two more major teleports to provide signal delivery for number of new satellites and for Multichoice orbital position. Please see the connectivity map at www.playout247.com/connectivity-map/

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EPG Converter goes on line

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Playout247 has launched a break-through web service which enables TV channels to create fully compliant EPG schedules for Sky at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.

TV channel operators upload their program schedules from a simple spreadsheet and EPG Converter does the hard work of validating all entries and where necessary, auto-fixing mistakes. EPG Converter offers a straightforward pay-as-you-go billing model and gives you the reassurance that your EPG uploads to Sky won’t be rejected with the extra expense that entail. EPG Converter is fully signed-off by Sky and we will shortly add other EPGs to the mix, starting with Freesat.

Read more about it at http://www.playout247.com/EPGcreator

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Kabel Kiosk Bouquet

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Playout247 have launched 7 new channels across Europe on the Kabel Kiosk platform in partnership with MME (Music Media Enterprises).

The USA content, with subtitles, covers a wide range of interests including Electronic Games, Finance and Religion with each channel focusing on one of the subjects. A further 4 channels will be added to the bouquet in the next few weeks and work to provide distribution via fibre to Skandinavia will be completed.

The schedules and subtitles, created in the USA and Netherlands respectively, are delivered by FTP on the internet, as are the media files, while the signal is delivered to cable head ends as MPEG2 over IP thus minimising the hardware costs associated with monitoring and redirecting.

All in all, an elegant solution from Playout247 providing a flexible and cost effective delivery platform.

Henk van Meer, Director of MME Europe said: “We see a high demand for all our TV content from European audience. We've chosen Playout247 for our European playout/channel delivery expansion because Playout247 is a leading provider of automated networked broadcast transmission services for all types of broadcasting: Satellite, Cable and Internet. With many years of experience in the development of broadcasting centres Playout247 enables us to reach numerous cable and rebroadcast stations, and cellular sites in the region.”

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Vox Africa News Station

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Playout247 have completed construction of another broadcast centre in Battersea, London.

Vox Africa use the facility to produce a news channel for the French speaking African diaspora around the globe. The channel is broadcast to Africa via satellite and globally through the internet at http://www.voxafrica.com using Playout247`s IPTV service.

Vox Africa is the first 24/7 French-language news channel to present the African point of view on events happening in Africa and around the globe and provides viewers with breaking news, stories on politics, business, and public affairs around the clock. Millions of viewers switch on to Vox Africa to gain a perspective other media are not likely to have.

The facility features a state of the art 'virtual studio' providing an unlimited choice of bespoke and off-the-shelf 3D environments for use as studio sets while the remote controlled 'robotic' cameras allow instant finger tip control of all camera parameters from the MCR for that 'real time' flexibility needed in a news environment.

Playout 247 worked closely with Media Alliance to produce a fully integrated news system making the technology transparent to the journalists allowing them to focus exclusively on the job of story making. Incoming news feeds are auto ingested into the news room system comprising media servers and software delivering the media and wire feeds to the journalists desk tops ready for use.