UK - Tandberg Television announced it is providing a range of MPEG-2 video compression technologies to the European Broadcast Union (EBU) for coverage of a line-up of high profile sporting events this summer.

Tandberg Television’s digital TV systems will continue to play a key role in the delivery of footage of both standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) sports action from the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing and the Tour de France, Roland Garros and Wimbledon, as well as all the most prominent football events of the season to more than 650 million viewers in 56 countries in and around Europe.

The premium sports content will be distributed to all EBU members over both satellite and fibre networks using a range of Tandberg Television encoders and professional receivers. The system is enabled to support the latest DVB-S2 standard and to efficiently manage bandwidth for the most cost-effective delivery of the content.

“We have a strong relationship with Tandberg Television and have continually combined the company’s industry leading technology with our own engineering excellence to make the EBU network one of the most advanced and efficient in the world,” says Paolo Pusterla, head of strategy and business development for the EBU.

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