Grupo Televisa, S.A. selected Envivio standard definition encoders and decoders for Televisa’s digital satellite news gathering (DSNG) operations. By deploying the high quality MPEG-4 compression and decompression systems in news vans, and fixed and flyaway configurations, Televisa enhanced image quality while requiring less than one half of the previous bit rate used for each transmission stream.
Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world and is a major player in the international entertainment business. Its three national television networks, Channels 2, 5 and 9, are comprised of 225 stations nationwide, and reach 99% of Mexico’s television households with 74% of the television audience share.
“We selected the Envivio systems after testing and comparing them with other systems on the market. The picture quality of the Envivio systems far surpassed its competition,” said William Aguirre, Director of Satellite Operations for Televisa. “Using the Envivio systems to lower the bit rates for each transmission stream, we can double the number of simultaneous transmissions over the same satellite bandwidth.”