RE'EM, Israel, March 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RRsat
Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST), a leading
provider of comprehensive content management and global
distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting
industries announced today that it will be providing its advanced
playout and uplink services for HIGHTV's entirely 3D content
roster.
Commencing April 4, 2011, HIGHTV
3D will broadcast their full lineup of HD 3D programming, ranging
from dramas and comedies to lifestyle and fashion. HIGHTV will
provide tens of millions of viewers with access to over 450 hours
of high quality 3D programming played out and distributed by RRsat
over the Eurobird-9A satellite to Europe and over the MEASAT-3a satellite across
Asia Pacific. Both channels will
be distributed in MPEG-4 compression and DVB-S2 broadcast standard
and will be played out from RRsat's state-of-the-art Playout Center
using digital workflow and including the archival storage of over 4
TB of HIGHTV's 3D material.
"RRsat is proud to continue its active involvement in the
progression of 3D TV," said Koby Zontag, Senior Director of Sales
and Business Development at RRsat. "We have already established
RRsat's capabilities with live 3D interactive broadcast over fiber
between continents and a major European ten-day sporting event
broadcast in 3D over satellite. Working alongside HIGHTV, we intend
to demonstrate that 3D TV is a valuable format in the genres of
entertainment and lifestyles as well."
"HIGHTV aims to take 3D TV beyond the limited and local
audiences it is currently geared towards," said Gwenael Flatres,
Head of Business Development, at HIGHTV. "By utilizing RRsat's
state-of-the-art technological capabilities and wide reach of the
RRsat Global Network, we are capable of taking 3D programming to a
global market, entering a new chapter in TV history with 24 hours
of non-repeating 3D programming, seven days a week."
About RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd.
RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST) provides
global, comprehensive, content management and distribution services
to the rapidly expanding television and radio broadcasting
industries. Through its proprietary "RRsat Global Network,"
composed of satellite and terrestrial fiber optic transmission
capacity and the public Internet, RRsat is able to offer
high-quality and flexible global distribution services for content
providers. RRsat's comprehensive content management services
include producing and playing out TV content as well as providing
satellite newsgathering services (SNG). RRsat concurrently provides
these services to more than 550 television and radio channels,
covering more than 150 countries. Visit the company's website
http://www.RRsat.com for more information.
About HIGHTV 3D
Headquartered in LA with offices in Hong Kong, Paris, London
and Singapore and supported by
investments of over $20 million,
HIGHTV 3D will be the first international 24/7 3D family channel
that features a unique mix of entertainment, lifestyle and original
reality shows in full HD 3D. HIGHTV 3D benefits from large
production capacities worldwide and will unveil the largest native
3D VOD library in the world with more than 450 hours of premium
native 3D programs, travel destinations, cooking shows, animation,
drama series, reality shows and Hollywood celebrities.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, including statements regarding (i) the growth of our
business and the television and radio broadcasting industries, (ii)
our expectation to expand our client base and sell additional
services to our existing client base, (iii) our ability to
successfully integrate the teleports we acquired, (iv) our ability
to develop and commercialize the RRinternetTV service, (v) our
expectation to extend the average length of our contracts in the
future, (vi) our ability to develop, expand and commercialize our
HD Platform, (vii) our ability to report future successes, (viii)
our ability to expand our activity in the North American market,
and (ix) our intention to distribute dividends in the future and
the size of any dividends declared. These forward-looking
statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and
are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and
projections about the companies and the industry as of the date of
this press release. The company undertakes no obligation to update
forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events
or circumstances, or to changes in its expectations, except as may
be required by law. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks
and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ
materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking
statements, including the risks indicated in our filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). For more details, please
refer to our SEC filings and the amendments thereto, including our
Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2009 and our Current Reports on Form
6-K.
Information in this press release concerning HIGHTV is based on
information provided by HIGHTV and has not been independently
verified by RRsat.
Company Contact Information:
Dr. Beth Erez, Sr. Advisor
Tel: +972-8-861-0000
Email: marketing@RRsat.com
Public Relations Contact:
Josh Kail, Vendeloo
Tel: +1-718-522-9873
Email: josh@vendeloo.com
SOURCE RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd