Starmax HD, Spain's New HDTV Platform, Launches With GlobeCast
PARIS -- March 1, 2011 -- Starmax HD, Spain's new HD service, has chosen GlobeCast to provide aggregation, encryption, and delivery of the full bouquet of channels broadcast to millions of households across the country. Hailed as a significant innovation in pay TV, Starmax HD has been developed from the ground up to provide the best HDTV platform to Spanish viewers in an accessible, affordable package without requiring a contract or minimum term.
GlobeCast's end-to-end service for Starmax HD includes fiber contribution from several countries; reception of SD and HD channels at the company's Sainte Assise Teleport in France; signal compression in MPEG-4 with multiplexing, uplink, and satellite capacity; and encryption for Conax.
In addition to GlobeCast's content
management and transmission services, the Starmax platform uses set-top
boxes from Ferguson, and viewer access cards from Conax. Starmax viewers
will have the ability to record programs and play content files from
external hard drives, as well as Internet access to streaming content
through the set-top box.
