Shanghai Media Group (SMG) is using EnvivioŽ MPEG-4 IPTV video headends to encode digital video programming for approximately 80,000 subscribers in the Northern Province of Hei Long Jiang and the City of Shanghai. The IPTV services are delivered via China Netcom Company Limited and Shanghai Telecom Co., Ltd., respectively. To increase video quality and customer satisfaction, SMG has deployed 90 encoders from the EnvivioŽ Broadcast Series.
"As we take our content into a wide variety of media distribution outlets, preserving and protecting the quality is of the utmost importance for subscriber satisfaction and retention," said Ms. Minnie Huang, CTO of BestTV at Shanghai Media Group. "Envivio encoding systems have proven to be the best value for our MPEG-4 IPTV headends deployment. The broadcast quality video and encoding features surpassed their competition."
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