T-VIPS AS, a global leader in professional video management and distribution, with advanced solutions for the contribution & distribution of broadcast quality video signals, has appointed Scivo as its first Business Partner in PRC to help pioneer its IP video transport and JPEG2000 compression in China. Beijing-based Scivo Technology Co. Ltd., which designs, engineers and manufactures networking solutions for the broadcast industry, will market T-VIPS ASI-IP Video Gateways, JPEG2000 Video Gateways, Transport Stream Processors and the T-VIPS Connect management system throughout mainland China.

"Even with China's strong IP-based communications infrastructure, delivering video over IP to broadcast industry standards has been challenging. The entry of T-VIPS into the market and the experience of its business partner Scivo, means that the Chinese media industry can now safely make the decision to move to IP video distribution to achieve the cost-saving, flexibility and picture quality benefits of our ASI and JPEG2000 solutions," concluded T-VIPS' Myhre.

T-VIPS IP video transport and JPEG2000 solutions enable best-in-class performance for professional broadcast contribution applications, studio-to-studio media exchange, post-production and primary distribution of content to transmitters and regional head ends. T-VIPS technology enables Chinese broadcasters and transmission providers to dramatically reduce their video transport costs and at the same time improve video quality and latency, especially when content is repeatedly decoded and encoded between source and destination.

Lihong Zhu, General Manager at Scivo Technology says: "The T-VIPS range of video transport solutions will help Chinese media companies increase the volume of content they produce and transport, thanks to lower contribution and distribution costs. China has a forward-looking media industry with strong growth ambitions and companies are keen to understand the benefits of combining IP video transport and JPEG2000 compression. T-VIPS has pioneered this technology in Europe and the United States and we are confident Chinese broadcasters and transmission service providers will recognize the impact T-VIPS solutions can have on their operations. We are excited by this partnership."

JPEG2000 is a mature, ISO/IEC standardised technology that delivers studio quality HD at manageable bit rates and maintains that quality throughout multiple encode-decode stages, avoiding the artefacts that may appear when cascading MPEG compressions. With latency below 100ms, HD signals can be transported with cascading encodes/decodes while still keeping the delay within acceptable levels. T-VIPS' JPEG2000 products deliver a source signal that is suitable for editing, format conversion and transcoding; this is very important for footage such as news and sports, which are often broadcast on a number of channels in different geographic regions, or even transmitted over mobile TV networks and the Internet.

T-VIPS is the market leader for JPEG2000 video contribution/distribution solutions. The company was first to market with JPEG2000 for the IP backhaul of SD content and then for HD content, and was the first to launch Forward Error Correction for JPEG2000-enabled IP backhaul.

The combination of JPEG2000 and IP video transport is delivering significant benefits to broadcasters worldwide. T-VIPS customer Showtime Networks Inc. in the U.S. calculates that moving to IP provides savings of up to 70% of video distribution costs.

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