Italy's TELE+ Delivers Television Services With

SeaChange Broadcast MediaCluster Maynard, Mass. (ots-PRNewswire) - Italy's first digital videobroadcaster, TELE+, has implemented SeaChange International'svideo server system to provide its viewers with a selection ofmovie services. Using the Broadcast MediaCluster, TELE+ isleveraging the advantages of this advanced digital system tofurther improve its operations and the quality of its televisionservice. TELE+ is the Italian subsidiary of Europe's leading paytelevision company, Canal+. "TELE+ has established its leadership in the DVB (Europe'sDigital Video Broadcast standard) market and provides its viewersthroughout Italy with the highest quality television services,"said Mauro Cassanmagnago, product center manager, TELE+."SeaChange's Broadcast MediaCluster enables us to capture newquality and reliability advantages, and increase our competitiveposition." Since January, TELE+ has used the Broadcast MediaClustersystem to deliver thirteen channels of pay-per-view services,including movies, sports and cultural programming. Italy's topsatellite television service provider, at the beginning of thisyear with 1.5 million viewers, TELE+ sought a video server systemto store its programming selections, which are playedsuccessively in a near video-on-demand application. With tightlycoupled software management from Louth Automation's ADC 200, theentire digital play- to-air system enables TELE+ to streamlineits operations and gain new efficiencies compared to its formeranalog tape environment. "We knew a digital server was the solution for us and theBroadcast MediaCluster proved to be ideal for its reliability,quality video output and digital precision," said TELE+'sCassanmagnago. "SeaChange's cluster technology ensures that ourprogramming plays consistently. We've transcended our tapesystems in several ways and I expect our operations staff willhelp further elevate TELE+'s reputation and the satisfaction ofour viewers." TELE+'s Broadcast MediaCluster configuration includes fiveinterconnected nodes, which act as a single fault-resilientserver. It is designed to scale easily, providing dozens of I/Os,terabytes of storage and interfaces to digital tape archives,automation systems and other critical broadcast equipment. Itprovides MPEG-2 4:2:2/4:2:0 output at variable rates up to 24Mb/sec. "With TELE+, SeaChange has added another world-classtelevision customer that is using our digital video systems totransform television services," said Marcello Dellepiane, vicepresident of sales, SeaChange Europe/Middle East and Africa."TELE+ stands out for its leadership in digital technology and weare proud to contribute to their innovation and success." Based in Milan, Italy, TELE+, Italy's leading pay televisionservice, was originally launched as a movie channel in 1991. Asecond, all-sports channel was added in 1992. Today, the TELE+ Premium offering is available via the Tele+Bianco and Tele+ Nero analog terrestrial channels. The offeringconsists mainly of previews or exclusive showings of majorinternational and Italian movies, as well as exclusive livebroadcast of major sports events. The two channels also show someof the world's best documentaries, popular mini-series,unconventional youth-oriented shows, and magazine-style programson sports films and Italian design and culture. In September1996, TELE+ first in Europe launched the Italian first digitalpay-TV satellite DVB service package under the D+ name. At thesame time it extended the Premium offering via satellite, whichnow comprises Tele+ White, Tele+ Black, Tele+ Gray, and Tele+16:9. Tele+ Gray's programming highlights movies and Italian andinternational sports events while Tele+ 16:9 broadcast movies inpanoramic format, creating a thrilling blend of pictures, colorsand sound. D+ has a Basic offer with several options and an importantsports offer with the seasonal product, +CALCIO and F1. The offerquality of TELE+ D+ has confirmed Italy at third place in Europe,after Spain and France, on the TV digital satellite market. SeaChange's systems fully support international standards. InEurope, SeaChange sells its products through its office in Genoa,Italy (Tel: +39010 5530177). Installation, service and supportare provided through its Customer Service Operation in SophiaAntipolis of Valbonne, France. Serving hundreds of geographic markets and approximately20,000 television channels worldwide, SeaChange International,Inc. (www.schange.com) is the leading provider of MPEG-2 digitalvideo systems for television. SeaChange's products, incorporatingthe Company's patented MediaCluster technology, automate themanagement and distribution of video streams includingadvertisements, movies, news, features and other broadcast-quality programming requiring precise execution. Founded in 1993,SeaChange is headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts.

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