GlobeCast has expanded its facilities in Asia with the addition of a new multi-channel HD playout facility, as well as new staff for post-production and playout services. Due to this expansion, new post-production and creative services will also be available from GlobeCast’s Parkview Square facilities. These facilities will expand to house the increased range of services. The close collaboration with Technicolor that made this expansion possible comes at a time when GlobeCast has been increasing its range of services in the area of Media Asset Management and playout worldwide. With the integration of the post-production and creative activities of Technicolor in Singapore, GlobeCast can now offer promo/interstitial creation, audio dubbing, subtitling and compliance editing services in addition to playout, program origination and digital media asset management services – providing a complete one-stop shop for broadcasters. In addition, GlobeCast has renewed and expanded its contract with IMG Sports Media Production, a division of global sports and media company IMG Worldwide, in a three year deal to provide HD coverage of up to six English Premier League (EPL) football matches per week and an incomplete highlights package to rightsholders across Europe, Asia and the Americas. As a result, GlobeCast has made a significant investment in MPEG4 upgrades for its two UK sites, strengthening its position as one of the most HD capable ad hoc providers in the world. Before the start of the 2010/11 season in August, GlobeCast installed dual dark fibres, channelized to take sixteen HDSDI feeds, between IMG and their Technical Operations Center (TOC) in Central London. This new link, which is capable of receiving up to eight simultaneous redundant feeds, has enabled GlobeCast to take all matches in uncompressed high definition before multiplexing them with MPEG4 compression through an Ericsson nCompass 6 multiplexer for delivery to satellite. For broadcast across Asia, all six feeds are uplinked to the IS904 and W2A satellites respectively for downlink by rightsholders across the region. Several match feeds are also being sent via the GlobeCast Backbone Network (GCBN) for playout in Hong Kong. This dynamic MPEG4 multiplex solution allows GlobeCast to easily uplink the feeds directly out of its central London facility or from its teleport in Brookman’s Park. GlobeCast will also be delivering incomplete highlights packages of the games to rightsholders 30 minutes after the match feeds finish.