DiviCom Wins DIRECTV Contract; CompressionSystems Agreement Expands DiviCom
Presence in North American DBSMarket With New DIRECTV Los Angeles Broadcast
Center
August 10, 1998 10:58 AM
MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 1998--DiviCom Inc. CUBE , a leading provider
of systems for digital television, today announced it has signed an agreement to supply
DIRECTV GMH with compression equipment for its new Los Angeles Broadcast Center
(LABC).
As part of the agreement, DiviCom and DIRECTV are working together to develop a complete
uplink signal processing system to support the DIRECTV(R) programming service.
DiviCom will supply products from its MediaView(TM) family of program encoders, the
MediaNode(TM) multiplexer and the MPEG Media Toolkit(TM). DIRECTV will also be using
DiviTrack(TM), the powerful, cost-saving statistical multiplexing feature of the MediaView MV40
encoder. In addition, DiviCom is responsible for the integration of the Uplink Signal Processing
System.
"DIRECTV is pleased to have DiviCom as our Uplink Signal Processing System provider," said
Steven Orland, vice president and general manager, Los Angeles Broadcast Center for
DIRECTV. "The DiviCom system is a strategic part of the LABC's technical infrastructure. The
teaming of the DIRECTV system design group with DiviCom will undoubtedly result in a
superior product implementation. We're confident that DiviCom will exceed our expectations for
reliability and video/audio signal quality."
DIRECTV, the nation's leading high-power digital television service, has announced that the
LABC will be fully operational in the second quarter of 1999. Since its launch more than four
years ago, DIRECTV has continuously added new services and channe5R2K
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