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MediaKind offers a broad range of open, standards-based products that provide the highest-quality digital TV solutions, including IPTV, HDTV, video on demand, advertising on demand, IPTV and interactive TV applications. All of which are designed to maximize the services we offer and generate greater returns on network investment.
MediaKind has been pioneering achievements in TV for over 20 years. From the earliest digital video compression, the vision to provide the world’s first MPEG-4 AVC HD encoding to facilitate worldwide roll-out of HD services, to the latest all-new multi-screen TV platforms and network technologies built ready for a future of huge scale, agility and capacity. These achievements have been rewarded with multiple industry awards including four Emmys™ of which we are very proud.
Our mission is to enable the future evolution of TV by creating harmonized solutions that give content owners, TV service providers, and network operators the agility to innovate, manage and monetize a new generation of rich TV experiences for the mass market. We do this by uniquely combining an award-winning open portfolio of products and solutions that span the TV value chain, complemented by world class systems integration and managed services with extensive consumer insight and a visionary mindset that unites the worlds of video and IP.
MediaKind brings TV and video customers a unique partnership of ability that we believe is essential for the transformation of TV: the combination of global consumer insight from our consumer lab studies in addition to industry standing and heritage, combined with the broadest and most complete portfolio of TV service and video network optimization solutions that are built upon significant engineering and industry standards activities. Finally, the worldwide services capability of consulting, prime integration, training, and broadcast managed services that mean Ericsson is able to advise, guide, support, implement and even manage our customers’ transformation in the evolution of TV.
Our solutions include:
Video Contribution and Distribution:
High-quality content remains critical to TV business models. Research shows consumers' demand for high-quality shows and sports coverage continues to drive revenues across the whole media chain. Acquisition, exchange and distribution of such critical programming, key to content owners, service providers and operators, requires the most innovative and reliable solutions. Ericsson's TV Contribution & Distribution (C&D) solutions draw upon more than two decades of compression heritage, with a record of innovation and professional services expertise second to none.
Ericsson is a clear market leader, with a history of world-firsts including the first 4:2:2 compression solution, the world's first contribution system and the first ever integrated Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG) solution and more recently, 3D contribution and live 4K UHDTV contribution. Our solutions are used by major broadcasters and service providers all over the globe.
LTE Broadcast:
Ericsson’s LTE broadcast solution will revolutionize video delivery in mobile networks enabled by the combination of three new standards: eMBMS, HEVC (H.265) and MPEG DASH and will address the growing consumer demand for media services.
Multiscreen TV:
Ericsson’s award-winning Multiscreen TV Solution's mission is to enable TV service providers to deliver any content to any screen on any network within one integrated solution. The Solution is easy to use, easy to grow with, and easy to learn. Together with Ericsson as a trusted partner, providers can use the Solution to deliver next-generation TV services, and to evolve, grow, and be profitable in the rapidly changing TV and media landscape.
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