Aachen, Germany and London, UK - November 29, 2006 - MainConcept, a world leader in codecs and video technology, announced today that it has licensed its MPEG-2 codec technology to On-Air Systems, an international software developer for broadcasters. The MPEG encoder and decoder will be included as standard features in all new versions of On-Air Systems’ rapidly evolving ‘K’ Series, including its fourth generation playout system - playKast, and its ingest system Kapture. | 
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ON-AIR systems designs its solutions around customer requirements, using the customer workflow as the starting point. By having open platforms and a wider range of codecs, customers have greater choice, and ON-AIR can implement playout solutions that are compatible to more third party systems. The MainConcept collaboration has allowed the K-Series products to be upgraded from SD to HD ingest and playout without significant development effort.
“MainConcept is an easy company to do business with” said Mark Errington, CEO and owner of ON-AIR Systems Limited. “They supplied us with an excellent toolkit that allowed us to complete a rapid development of our software. We wanted to ensure we had the most up to date features available and working with the market leading codec developer as our partner we know we can provide our customers with what they want now and in the future”.
"Our cooperation with On-Air Systems allows more and more clients to benefit from MainConcept’s ultra-fast, high-quality MPEG codec technology,” said Markus Moenig, CEO and founder of MainConcept. “We are proud and delighted that On-Air Systems, with its reputation for only accepting the highest quality and efficiency for their products, has chosen MainConcept as its MPEG provider."
About ON-AIR Systems
ON-AIR Systems is a leading international supplier of computer-based broadcast automation solutions and delivery services for all types of television channels. With a decade of experience in the development of playout systems, it has an unrivalled knowledge and understanding of a channel’s needs. Based in London and with a worldwide distribution network, ON-AIR provides proven, cost-effective solutions and services for broadcasters around the world - including the BBC (UK), The Concentra Group (Belgium), Star TV (Tanzania), TBN (South Africa and Spain), Telesud (France), TVN (Poland), YLE (Finland), ImaginasianTV (USA), Angel TV (Singapore), Anadolu University (Turkey), Lincoln University (UK) and Ajman TV (UAE). For more information about ON-AIR Systems please visit www.on-air-systems.com.
About MainConcept
MainConcept - The Codec People is a world leader in video codec technology for film, post production, broadcasting, television, video industries, communications, consumer applications and many more business fields. Over the years MainConcept has developed a complete range of all-important standards-based codecs for the PC and established long term relationships with many leading companies allover the world. With its team of experts, MainConcept has been working on the strategy: ‘Every Codec, Every Platform.’ Based on its dominating codec position in the PC market, the company is now entering the embedded and broadcast markets by porting its video codecs to many new embedded systems, doing IP cores for FPGAs, and building its own hardware platform for real-time, broadcast-quality encoding.
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