Windows Media Workflow at Starz: Episode 1 of 3 - The Hardware
- Posted: Feb 27, 2008 at 11:19 AM
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Starz Entertainment , the providers of premium TV channels like Starz and Encore and
Vongo downloadable movies has built their entire media infrastructure around Windows Media. Stephen Smith, Director of Media System Integration walks us through the entire workflow and architecture of the system that they
built.
This is a 3-part series, first showing the hardware, then the architecture, then the software that they built.
In this first part focusing on the hardware, Stephen takes Michael through different parts of the process where hardware from media encoders to satellites ingest, process, and transmit premium video content throughout North America.
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