Distribution
Telestream unveils top-notch solutions at Broadcast Asia Show 2023
Mumbai: At the Broadcast Asia Show 2023 (Singapore, 7-9 June), Telestream will present its cutting-edge technologies and a new suite of hybrid product innovations to APAC audiences for the first time.
Trusted by many of the world’s leading content owners, broadcasters, and video service providers, Telestream’s on-prem and cloud innovations are designed to streamline workflows, enable true creativity, and provide real business impact. Dedicated areas on Telestream’s Broadcast Asia booth will showcase its latest content distribution and monetisation advancements, including the 2023 ‘TVTechnology Best of Show’ award-winning products, Content Manager and PRISM MPP.
Telestream VP APAC Ellen Shen said, “We are delighted to debut our 2023-award-winning products and services to APAC audiences at this year’s show. Broadcast Asia is the perfect platform to demonstrate how we provide our customers with the necessary flexibility and agility to automate, optimise, and scale operations today and in the future. Regardless of how video content is created, distributed, or viewed, Telestream knows how to bring the best video quality to any audience.”
Visitors to the booth will see Telestream’s latest product advancements in areas such as storage, monitoring, multichannel video capturing and processing, automated quality control, and monitoring in the cloud. Featured demos will include:
Telestream Content Manager
The new Telestream Content Manager provides a single point of access for content across an organisation’s entire storage ecosystem. Built on DIVA core technology, it is tightly integrated with Telestream’s workflow orchestration tools and supports all major MAM, PAM, and automation systems. Content Manager’s auto-discovery feature enables the indexing of files directly from cloud storage without the egress costs associated with copying to another location. This approach lowers costs while enabling efficient management of legacy content and incoming files.
PRISM MPP
The Telestream PRISM family now includes three new models, extending the line of software-defined monitoring instruments to address post-production users requiring high-end production video formats like 12-bit RGB for 4K/UHD applications in both SDI and IP. Purpose-built for post-production, they’re exceptionally quiet, support a wide range of formats, and offer loop-through for reference monitors and analog audio out for edit suite configurations.
Software-only version of lightspeed live capture
Expanding professional-grade live capture capabilities to more workflows, Telestream now offers its industry-leading lightspeed live capture multichannel video capture and processing solution as software-only. With this flexibility, users can run the software anywhere they choose — from a Telestream server to their own servers to the cloud. Additionally, its deep integration with Telestream Vantage provides unparalleled depth in capture and media processing.
QC in the cloud
A highlight at the Telestream booth will be Qualify for Encoding.com, the industry’s first fully-cloud-native automated quality control (QC) service, introduced in late 2022. Qualify gives broadcasters, content creators, and distributors access to a comprehensive QC solution with the ability to expand or contract their QC deployment depending on their needs, similar to how they utilise cloud encoding, simplifying capacity planning and providing greater elasticity in the supply chain. It is built on the same Telestream media framework as Vantage and brings the features of Telestream’s on-prem Vidchecker and Aurora QC offerings to the cloud.
Cloud-native video quality monitoring architecture
At Broadcast Asia, Telestream will demonstrate how an innovative, cloud-native, fully scalable architecture can work seamlessly across different video delivery chains in complex streaming workflows, with demos of cloud-native VOD monitoring, live contribution and distribution quality monitoring, and single management interface across linear delivery and OTT streaming. Leveraging Telestream iQ probing technology and ARGUS centralised video quality monitoring, this solution offers true consolidated management and analytics throughout the video delivery chain, featuring a microservices architecture optimised for cloud-centric service operations.
New Delhi: Prasar Bharati has thrown open applications for fresh capacity on DD Free Dish, signalling a timely opportunity for broadcasters looking to expand reach without long-term lock-ins. The public service broadcaster has issued a dual notice for its 95th and 96th online e-auctions, aimed at filling vacant MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 slots on a pro-rata basis for February and March 2026.
The two auctions are tentatively scheduled to begin on January 27, with allotments valid from February 1, 2026. Applications for both auctions close on January 21 at 3 pm, giving channels a narrow window to get their bids in.
The 95th e-auction will cover vacant MPEG-2 slots, while the 96th will focus on MPEG-4 capacity. Participation is limited to satellite television channels holding valid downlinking and uplinking permissions from the ministry of information and broadcasting. International public broadcasters cleared by the ministry are also eligible.
As with previous rounds, channels have been grouped into buckets based on genre and language, with sharply differentiated reserve prices reflecting reach and demand.
For the MPEG-2 auction, Hindi and Urdu general entertainment channels sit at the top of the pile. The starting reserve price for bucket A+ in the first round is Rs 2,63,48,000. Movie, music and sports channels in Hindi and Urdu follow in bucket A at Rs 2,10,14,000. Bhojpuri channels and other Hindi and Urdu genres, excluding devotional content, fall under bucket B with a reserve of Rs 1,78,62,000. Hindi and Urdu news channels in bucket C start at Rs 1,33,27,000, while bucket D, which includes regional language channels, English news and devotional or spiritual channels, begins at Rs 1,13,96,000.
The MPEG-4 auction comes in at a far leaner price point. News and current affairs channels in Hindi, English or pan-India languages, grouped under bucket G1, start at Rs 13,41,000. Non-news genres under bucket G2 have a reserve of Rs 8,80,000. Regional languages such as Marathi, Punjabi and Gujarati in bucket R2 begin at Rs 4,84,000. Southern language channels in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, grouped under bucket R1, start at Rs 81,000, the same reserve price set for other scheduled 8 regional languages in bucket R3.
Prasar Bharati has underlined that compliance will be closely watched. Broadcasters must ensure that at least 75 per cent of their monthly programming, excluding advertisements, aligns with the declared genre and language. Any deviation could trigger show-cause notices or even removal from the DD Free Dish platform.
For channels chasing reach in a crowded market, the message is clear. The window is brief, the prices are set and the audience is waiting. On DD Free Dish, visibility still comes cheap, but only for those ready to move fast.
