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25 May 2017
Measat highlighting UHD
service at show, sees
more 4K growth in Asia
Visitors who wish to know more
about UHD deployment can talk
to Measat COO Yau Chyong Lim
and his team at booth 1T3-01 in
CommunicAsia2017.
Measat Satellite Systems is show-
casing its 4K capabilities to high-
light the company’s ‘leadership’ in
the UHD space in Asia-Pacific.
“We are probably the leader
in UHD linear channels. Other
operators do have 4K content, but
they are more like promo chan-
nels,” says Yau Chyong Lim, chief
operating officer of Measat.
Measat offers a flexible solution
for channels and content providers
to deliver Ultra HD (UHD) content
through 91.5°E — a video hot slot to
reach viewers in Asia-Pacific, Middle
East, Australia and East Africa.
The company’s UHD platform
which currently has two channels
— Fashion One 4K and Insight —
leverages the latest compression
technique to provide greater sat-
ellite efficiency using DVB-S2/S2X
modulation and HEVC encoding.
Additionally, Measat’s UHD
video distribution solution was
designed to offer a High Service
Level Availability (SLA), including
round-the-clock monitoring and
support by its Network Manage-
ment Centre and a redundant
system to facilitate quick fault
recovery.
Lim believes that the UHD
market in Asia-Pacific will continue
to grow.
Like SD and HD, UHD will un-
dergo the same cycle, where all
the ecosystem would need to be
in place, so more operators can
deploy content in 4K, he explains.
In the case of SD and HD, Mea-
sat worked with partners in the past
to help channel ope