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As a result, all subscribers of Hutchison in India (Hutch and Orange
networks) will be able to receive video clips within minutes of
the actual action, states a release.
Till now such video clips were available only over 3G networks
but Hutchison has made this breakthrough on GPRS networks as well.
Nimbus Communications Ltd will look into the video production for
new formats.
According to the release, Nimbus has set up a studiodedicated to
downloading encrypted signals from South Africa from the PAS 10
satellite using a RAS enabled decoder. The digital feed will then
be recorded onto a master server, backed up by a redundant server
and a DV recorder, all in real time. Two dedicated NLE work stations
will edit in real time the match action, route the over highlights
in the form of 10 second video clips to four workstations which
in turn will generate four different file formats of each video
clip : AVI, GIF, JPEG and MPEG.
The protocol generator workstations will then route individual
10 second clips in the four different file formats over dedicated
lines to the Hutchison servers in Mumbai which will then deliver
these to subscribers in the appropriate file format depending on
which file format their mobile handset is capable of receiving.
Recognising that handsets are not uniformly capable, the multiple
file format system was devised to suit the handset capability of
most Indian handsets that have any form of MMS or video capability.
Nimbus intends to offer these services to the vast mobile services
market, and post Cricket World Cup intends to take these capabilities
to the global GPRS market, targeting
Australia, Middle East, Europe, South East Asia, the release adds.
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