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SOLUTIONS FOR CABLE, SATELLITE & IPTV

Pay television operations throughout the world are in a period of significant change - both in terms of new technology and business models. How that change is embraced and managed will be critical to their financial success in the coming years.

As telecom companies enter the video delivery market - whether via IPTV or mobile TV deployments - the differentiation of service offerings between competing platform operators becomes paramount in the battle for subscribers. These factors, combined with the advent of HDTV and the desire by consumers for a rich, personalized media experience means that pay-TV operators must raise the bar in terms of quality and functionality in order to succeed.

For a company founded on the fundamental premise that quality matters, we at Snell & Wilcox have learned that television service providers offering the best picture and sound are the most successful. Many of these industry leaders also just happen to be our best customers.

Our customers include the world's largest and most successful cable, satellite and IPTV operators, all of whom rely on our superior signal processing to deliver the highest quality SD and HD video experience to their subscribers, whether they are watching a basic channel package or VOD service.

Snell & Wilcox "smart infrastructure" products work together to form the digital backbone of cable, satellite & IPTV installations. Whether the requirement is for the stabilization and synchronization of incoming lines, signal manipulation, conversion to HDTV, content repurposing or sophisticated compression systems, Snell & Wilcox delivers the industry's highest quality solutions for mission critical applications.

Like all parts of the digital media value chain, the multi-channel pay-TV sector is undergoing constant change. The most successful operators manage this continuous evolution in an intelligent, measured and cost-effective way in order to deliver the compelling new programs and services that viewers crave.

Snell & Wilcox believes the way to effectively manage change is through a "smart" infrastructure that allows management to plan and deploy a facility in a way that's harmonious with the goals of the operator's business model. That's why each product in our broadcast product range is "self-aware" - plug it into our monitoring and control network and it's easily configured in seconds. We call that "integrated intelligence." You'll call it a lifesaver!

The bottom line: Snell & Wilcox's infrastructure products - including digital signal processing, converters, HDTV products, compression solutions and system-wide control & monitoring - offer the most advanced technologies at the lowest possible cost.