Intelsat празнува първите 20 години от Digital HD предавания

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Intelsat Now Boasts More Than 115 HD Channels on Its Fleet
In 1989, we were dancing to HammerTime, Paula Abdul had the number one song, (Yes, she really had a career before American Idol!) and we were all glued to CNN witnessing history as the Berlin Wall crumbled.

Meanwhile, Intelsat engineers were hard at work, and on 12 April of that year, they performed the first international digital HD transmission between the United States and Japan. This marked the beginning of international digital HD technology. High Definition in analog form was already introduced and tested, but never considered viable, as it required far too much bandwidth to be commercially successful. The trial was a cooperative effort between Intelsat, COMSAT, KDD and AT&T introducing a broad, new application for satellite technology in commercial television. This date is considered the 'birth' of international digital HDTV. Little did everyone know what an important technology digital HD would eventually become.

Throughout the 1990s, we watched with rapt attention every NAB, NCTA and CES shows wondering and waiting for the next evolution of HD. Today, nearly everyone we know has an HD television or has at least experienced HD television in some way. And everyone agrees: once you have it, you can’t go back! Can you imagine watching the Super Bowl in standard definition after seeing it in HD? Certainly every major programmer in the U.S. has now launched an HD channel; soon it will become the industry standard worldwide. Intelsat now boasts more than 115 HD channels on its fleet.

Intelsat is celebrating this technological milestone in 2009 with a campaign that was launched in April at this year’s NCTA. Intelsat's campaign celebrates many of its HD programmers and features a series of print ads in conjunction with a number of video-centric shows and conferences.

Our NAB campaign will consist of an in-booth video wall, complete with live feeds and HD Cam footage from our programming partners, which include:
HD feeds: Fox Business News, HDNET, HDNET Movies, MLB HD and WEALTH TV
SD feeds: TV Japan, MEGA TV, CaribeVision and BBC World News.

Intelsat will continue to celebrate the 'First 20 Years of HD' throughout the year, promoting our leadership in HD transmissions, in our media messaging, booth graphics and events.

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