Sun Direct TV brings MPEG-4 satellite service to India

by Darren Murph, posted Mar 20th 2008 at 2:35AM

While DirecTV rolls out plans to migrate some of its customers to MPEG-4, Sun Direct TV is giving around 40 million homes in southern India such service right now. By incorporating Harmonic's video delivery solutions, it has become the first carrier in India to offer up MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) direct-to-home broadcast service. As it stands, 120 standard-definition channels are currently available to subscribers, but the operator is planning to add an undisclosed amount of HD channels "in the near future."

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Tags: H.264, harmonic, india, mpeg-4, mpeg4, satellite, Sun Direct TV, SunDirectTv

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VP @ Mar 20th 2008 8:46AM

For a minute there i thought the content Sun network streams to the U.S and the rest of the world would be HD, hopefully it's coming soon. :(

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