Reaching the latest milestone, Britain’s Sky News successfully broadcasts the first live, on-air transmission via Inmarsat’s new Ka-band satellite network, Global Xpress (GX). Partnering with Network Innovations (NI) and Inmarsat, Sky News was able to live stream HD video over the GX satellite (Inmarsat-5 F1) broadband network from Athens for the Greek election news coverage. This recent achievement comes just days before Inmarsat launches the second GX satellite, Inmarsat-5 F2, … [Read more...] about Sky News broadcasts on Global Xpress
Martin Turner
Quicklink to use latest Quicklink Hardware Encoders
Quicklink Video Distribution Services have announced that the latest release of the Quicklink hardware encoders include full BGAN HDR integration and control directly from the encoder. The encoders also include optimisation on both quality and latency when used in conjunction with an Inmarsat BGAN terminal. The Inmarsat integration is available on all of the Quicklink hardware encoders which include The Quicklink Mini, 1U Encoder, Merlin and the new Midi Backpack. Users can now control BGAN HDR … [Read more...] about Quicklink to use latest Quicklink Hardware Encoders
