HD & UHD
Reaching all audiences with consistent HD and UHD quality
Audiences expect seamless HD and UHD experiences, while broadcasters and content providers face pressure to ensure consistent quality across a fragmented digital landscape. Meeting this demand at scale requires a strategic, robust infrastructure for:
- Reaching all viewers across wide geographic regions.
- Delivering content to multiple networks.
- Ensuring bandwidth availability, especially at peak times, to deliver a consistent, high-quality service.
Delivering an unprecedented viewing experience
As demand for high-definition and ultra-high-definition content continues to grow, satellite is a powerful and reliable solution for broadcasters aiming to deliver consistent HD and UHD quality at scale, especially for live or linear content.
Reach
Satellite reaches audiences in remote and underserved areas where broadband infrastructure is limited or inconsistent.
Bandwidth
Stable, high-bandwidth transmission ideal for HD and UHD formats, with minimal risk of buffering or degradation.
Scalability
Satellite enables simultaneous distribution to multiple networks and platforms, making it ideal for live events and linear broadcasting.
Consistency
Unlike internet-based delivery, satellite delivery is not affected by local network congestion or peak-time slowdowns.
HOW IT WORKS?
Satellites are a natural platform for broadcasting HD and UHD content. Their bandwidth availability and wide coverage areas enable viewers to receive the same quality signal wherever they are located within the satellite coverage.
When broadcasters need to reach all viewers across a region, no matter their location, it can be challenging to deliver content to all networks. The DVB-SIS (Single Illumination System) technology standard resolves this by enabling both terrestrial and satellite networks to be fed from a single content source. Satellite has the available bandwidth and extensive reach, to provide extremely popular, premium quality content to all users across vast territories, as well as offset terrestrial networks for a smooth, consistent viewing experience.
As demand for UHD grows, and broadcasters look to differentiate their offer, satellite provides the perfect distribution platform to handle bandwidth requirements, delivering consistent quality to a maximum of viewers across wide geographic regions. Eutelsat's satellite capacity distributes UHD content to cable and IP network operators as well as DTH homes across our extensive satellite footprints.
