Kurt
Heitmann and the good people at CP Communications have established a
memorial trust fund in honor of ESPN and sports industry audio
legend Ron Scalise that will be used for the college education of his
three children: Rosario, 16, RJ, 11, and his daughter Brenna, 10. At
the request of the family this will be the only fund established to
limit confusion. For more information on donating to the fund please
click on this story.
All donations should be made out to the fund and should be sent to:
Kurt G. Heitmann
CP Communications, Inc.
200 Clearbrook Road
Elmsford, NY 10523
Third Annual Sports & Technology Research Study
The Sports Video Group and the Consumer Electronics Association has released the
third-annual “Sports & Technology Research Survey, highlighting the power
that sports content has as both a driver of HD set sales as well as other new
technologies. The survey includes our exclusive 2008 Super Bowl Briefing as
well as new data about consumer online sports viewing behavior.
Wegener Corporation a provider of equipment for television,
audio and data distribution networks worldwide, annouced the operation of live video
broadcasts on a VSAT network from ViaSat Inc., showing compatibility of
WEGENER’s video overlay solution for VSAT networks.
VSAT networks provide
bandwidth efficient solutions for distributing interactive IP data between
thousands of data centers, retail locations, corporate LANS, schools, the
Internet, and home offices. Using standard ViaSat LinkStar uplink and
downlink equipment WEGENER added live high definition (HD) and standard
definition (SD) video streams to a VSAT network traditionally used to transmit
data files. Artifact-free video was successfully decoded by the WEGENER
SMD 515 IPTV set top box.
“ViaSat’s innovative communication networks provide a great
complement to WEGENER’s private network video products,” said
NedL.Mountain, President and COO of
WEGENER. “We want to create more opportunities to present compelling
branding, advertising and informational data to new environments by combining
advanced video compression, VSAT architecture and file-based content
delivery. VSAT networks are a new market for our enterprise video
equipment.”
ViaSat VSAT products include hub-based IP data access
systems for building enterprise or service provider networks, and mesh and
hybrid architecture products for extending networks to locations not served by
terrestrial alternatives.
For the initial configuration, continuous IP multicasts of
MPEG-2 HD and SD video were fed through ViaSat’s uplink switch, QOS and
modulator, before transmission over a Ku satellite link. At the receive
end, the signal was processed by a ViaSat LinkStar terminal, and ultimately the
WEGENER SMD 515 IPTV set top box decoded the video streams.
“We continue to explore bridge technologies that enable us
to provide more applications on our networks,” said Mike Kreller, VP and
general manager of ViaSat VSAT Networks. “The ability to support high-quality
video is another advantage for our customers.”
