Following major space and ground
infrastructure investments and the expansion
of its Latin America video neighbourhood,
SES today announced the launch of its Ultra
HD platform into the region to accelerate
commercial 4K rollouts among leading cable,
IPTV, and DTH providers across Latin
America.
Many of Latin America’s leading Pay TV providers
are already testing SES’s new Ultra HD solution,
an all-in-one package of pre-configured Ultra HD
content, reception equipment, and satellite
distribution that will enable quick and easy
Ultra HD deployments over the region. The new
SES Latin America Ultra HD solution will open
with four Ultra HD channels, including NASA TV
UHD, produced by Harmonic, as well as the SES
Ultra HD demo channel, an incubator for emerging
4K content producers. SES plans to add new
channels and content produced in Brazil, Mexico,
and other Latin American countries in the
future.
Like SES’s North America Ultra HD solution, the
end-to-end Latin America platform will be
distributed over multiple SES satellites. SES-6
will provide dedicated delivery across 100% of
the Brazilian market, offering programming
flexibility for local content. SES’s NSS-806
satellite, home to SES’s leading Latin American
Pay TV neighbourhood, will serve the rest of the
region until it is replaced by the recently
launched SES-14 satellite later this year. Once
SES-14 initiates service, SES plans to
significantly expand the Latin America channel
lineup on its expanding video neighbourhood at
47.5 West. SES is the unmatched leader in global
HD and Ultra HD distribution, and has
experienced unprecedented 18% year-on-year
growth in Latin America with over 300 HD and
Ultra HD channels currently hosted on its
satellites.
“SES is ushering in an exciting new era of
advanced television services across the region
with the launch of our new Latin America Ultra
HD platform – the latest game-changing solution
built on SES’s robust network of space and
ground infrastructure. The SES network is
enabling the efficient delivery of HD, Ultra HD,
and OTT content to audiences throughout the
region,” said Jurandir Pitsch, Vice President,
Sales and Market Development for SES Video in
Latin America and the Caribbean. “Latin
America’s leading Pay TV providers are poised to
offer Ultra HD content to their subscribers via
the SES platform ahead of the 2018 World Cup,
which is driving strong interest in 4K services
across the region.”
