SatLink Communications launches new
Hot Bird DVB-S2 platform to deliver HD content to Europe
8 April
2014
SatLink Communications
has announced the launch of a new DVB-S2
platform on Eutelsat’s Hot Bird satellite. In
coordination with Sky Italia, an Italian digital
satellite television platform, the cost effective
service has been developed to meet the growing demand
for HD content on a premium satellite to reach direct to
home and the Cable, Satellite and Pay TV Markets and
will provide the highest audience penetration across
Europe.
Located at 13.0° degrees East, the new Hotbird DVB-S2
platform will support the delivery of HD channels to the
European cable, satellite and Pay TV platforms and will
provide international broadcasters with the ability to
effectively distribute its HD and SD content, expanding
both revenues and audience reach, to the region’s Pay-TV
and Direct To Home markets. Currently 120 million homes
across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa receive
TV Channels broadcasted via Eutelsat’s Hot Bird
satellites. Recently SatLink launched FTV HD and SD
European feeds to the new Hotbird DVB-S2 platform.
