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APT TV Broacdasting Centre

SATELLITE TV BROADCASTING SERVICE

APT Satellite TV Broadcasting Center provides full service  in playout, transmission and broadcast facilities. We are located in the Tai Po APT Teleport and went live to air in year 2004 and can accommodate up to six playout channels simultaneously for global transmission with your own logo branding to viewers all over the Asian-Pacific rim or worldwide if required.

We offer head-end playback facilities and monitoring services using professional standard DVB equipments with full automation technology. This modern facility runs 24/7 in a main and back-up configuration with a UPS generator in a climate controlled environment.

With the vast coverage of our own Apstar Satellites, we can assemble your transmissions from tapes while also able to downlink programming from other satellites or incoming fiber links. The content material is cached into our video servers, QC, played out and distributed either through Apstar C-band or Ku- Band Satellites, fiber links and/or third party satellites.
TV Broadcasting Capability:
Content Acquisition

Video feed from satellite, terrestrial fiber optic, tape, CD or IP
Digitalization of any analogue sources to digital MPEG format
Standards conversion between NTSC, PAL and SECAM

Content Management

Automation with fully redundancy to ensure reliable performance of play back
On-air logo editing at any time per customer’s request
Media management by the advanced automation system
Electronic Program Guide
Round the clock monitoring and technical support service

Content Storage

Up to 1,000 hours of digital video archival storage and backup
Physical archival storage in library with easy to retrieve mechanism
Media conversion between different sources of video / audio / multimedia

Content Distribution

Standard MPEG2-DVB format TV broadcasting
DVB based data broadcasting
Ready to transmit to satellites via APT teleport
Ready to transmit to optical fiber or other media
Conditional access and customer managemen


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