Intelsat, Globo Partnering to Beam Live World Cup Matches in 8K to Brazil
Intelsat is partnering with Latin American broadcaster Globoto beam live 8K video transmissions of the World Cup to the Museu de Amanhã science museum in Rio de Janeiro, said the satellite operator Friday. The signal is being transmitted as a…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
200 Mbps video stream at the International Broadcast Center in Moscow and transported to Tokyo, where it will then be carried to Intelsat via the Intelsat “point of presence” in New York, it said. The signal will be transmitted on the IntelsatOne terrestrial network to Intelsat’s teleport in Atlanta, where it will be re-encoded at 90 Mbps using a special NTT 8K H.265 real-time encoder, it said. Once the video is compressed and modulated, it will be uplinked to Intelsat 14, the company’s “emerging HD video neighborhood in Latin America known for its HD and 4K content distribution,” it said.