Awards categories 2008
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1. Best outside broadcast technology or service *a
2. Best playout/connectivity service/solution *b
3. Best digital video processing technology *c
4. Best satellite contribution/distribution/transmission solution
5. Best monitoring or network management solution
6. Best customer premise technology
7. Best terrestrial wireless contribution/distribution/transmission solution *d
8. Best workflow/asset management/automation solution
9. Best content protection technology
10. Best fibre contribution/distribution/transport solution
11. Best silicon innovation
12. Best content-on-demand solution
13. Best cable video/data/voice last mile transmission technology
14. Best interactive TV technology or application
15. Best IPTV technology or service
16.Best Mobile TV technology or service
17.Best HDTV technology or project
18.Best Web TV technology or service
*a For newsgathering, sports, events coverage etc and covering
uplinks, OB trucks and equipment etc
*b Playout includes channel hosting, management and transmission including EPG, CA, iTV services etc. Connectivity includes provision of distribution and transmission expertise/platforms, regardless of medium (satellite, fibre, microwave etc).
*c Digital video processing covers everything needed for the efficient movement and manipulation of digital video across a network. This includes encoding, decoding, transcoding, multiplexing/demultiplexing, encryption/de-encryption, grooming and programme insertion, data insertion, transrating, modulation and de-modulation etc.
*d Terrestrial wireless covers the use of analogue television, digital terrestrial television and microwave spectrum. Mobile DTT services that do not use IP datacasting techniques could be entered in this category, as opposed to the IPTV/video-to-mobile category (see below).