Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark LLC (hereinafter “COMARK”),
a manufacturer and supplier of DTV transmitters, encoding systems, and associated field services for
over 45 years, has signed a reseller agreement with VideoFlow for intelligent content delivery
solutions over IP networks, including public Internet. The VideoFlow products will be integrated into
the end-to-end workflows for both ATSC 1.0 and NextGen TV.
COMARK’s unprecedented market experience in headend designs and encoding systems began with
the formation of Comark Digital Services during the original transition from analog to DTV. Comark
Digital Services (CDS) was re-launched in 2018 to help broadcasters upgrade their headend solutions
for both ATSC 1.0 and migrate to NextGen TV. CDS continues to provide market-leading solutions
with best-of-breed technology and system expertise to help customers jump into the exciting
possibilities offered by ATSC 3.0.
The agreement appoints COMARK as an authorized reseller of the VideoFlow Digital Video
Protection (DVP) software suite and corresponding hardware appliances. VideoFlow’s DVP allows
for the highest reliability of content protection and delivery through any IP network while providing
the lowest OpEx solution. DVP also offers broadcasters additional capabilities including IP path
diversity, spoke and hub architectures, content sourced from Cloud Services, and confidence
monitoring.
Comark Digital Services will be focusing on the North American broadcast DTV market for ATSC
1.0 and NextGen TV solutions. CDS provides integration and system design services for TV stations
to ensure a smooth installation process.
“Partnering with VideoFlow provides several important capabilities required in current and future
headend system deployments for the CDS business,” said Tim Hosmer, Director of CDS at Hitachi
Kokusai Electric Comark LLC. “VideoFlow has pioneered and perfected methods of protected content
delivery over any IP distribution network which will be key in both existing ATSC 3.0 lighthouse
scenarios as well as future SFN deployments.”
“We are very excited to announce this partnership with COMARK. We believe this joint solution will
benefit the fast migration to NextGen TV, while utilizing VideoFlow’s “know how” in Internet and
unmanaged IP networks to transport content with no compromise on video quality.” said Adi
Rozenberg, CTO and Co-Founder of VideoFlow. “COMARK vast experience in the broadcast market,
and its end-to-end integration services offering, along with VideoFlow will allow smooth transition to
the next era of television.”
