Ascent Media Adds Digital Rapids StreamZHD in UK for HD/SD Encoding
18 January 2006, Passfield, UK: UK Digital Rapids dealer ERA has completed an order from Ascent Media Group Limited (www.ascentmedia.co.uk) for Digital Rapids‘ StreamZHD format-flexible HD/SD media encoding system, which has been installed at Ascent Media‘s Wardour Street premises situated in London‘s Soho district. StreamZHD is being used for a number of encoding applications ranging from low bit-rate proxy files up to D-Cinema in 1080 HD MPEG-2.
Additionally, StreamZHD is also used for large encoding projects such as Video on Demand (VOD) for major cable providers, back catalogue content for publication and PAL DV of film rolls for sound studios across Europe. Material that is urgently required in the U.S. can be encoded and sent within a short turn around time. more



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