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Avail-TVN provides over 200 content partners with multi-platform content solutions. We offer a comprehensive service offering for some of the most recognizable names in the entertainment industry, including every major Hollywood Studio, Premium and Cable Networks, Adult providers and specialty VOD Networks - from Anime to UFC on Demand. Using our proven technology platform, we format, manage and distribute content to over 50 million television and broadband households across North America each and every day. From product planning to launch, Avail-TVN provides the insight, tools, and customer-focused approach that meets the challenges of todayís dynamic multi-platform marketplace.

Video On Demand
Content Preparation and Metadata

Avail-TVN has more experience in On Demand content preparation and asset management than any other company in the world. Our content preparation systems have been designed to accommodate rapid program turnaround, schedule growth, and accommodate new On Demand programming concepts. Avail-TVN encodes in a variety of formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (H.264), Windows Media (VC1), in both SD, and HD and ensures that metadata is compatible with every combination of server, middleware, IPG, and set-top box and advertising system. The only company that offers a web-based dynamic metadata modification solution, Avail-TVN optimizes each Content Providerís unique VOD programming and packaging structure, ensuring that metadata is faithfully transformed to accommodate the most logical and intuitive placement within each Service providerís unique VOD menu and ecosystem.

Transport

Avail-TVN manages the distribution of all assets via its internally developed Secure Satellite Transport (SST) system in concert with ADONISS, the industryís first platform-independent, secure point to multi-point digital content distribution and management system. As a result, Avail-TVN is equipped to deliver on demand content to any headend regardless of system type, or hardware/software configuration.

Transmitting via Intelsat's Galaxy 28 satellite, ADONISS offers reliable, secure multicast delivery of all digital content. Through the use of unique site addresses and a fully encrypted signal, we ensure that content is delivered in its entirety - only to authorized sites.

Sales & Marketing Services

Avail-TVN is a full-service digital media services company resourced to support our customers as an extension of their own operation. Avail-TVNís dedicated team of affiliate sales professionals are the most knowledgeable in the business. They speak with our affiliates every day as consultants and advisors on the optimum product mix, menu hierarchies, and content packaging and are able to supplement our content partnersí sales efforts or provide Affiliate sales, as we do for Ambient TV, Karaoke Channel, and UFC on Demand, to name few.

In addition, our marketing team is expert in how to market video-on-demand and are available to advise your team or act on your behalf. We provide a number of marketing opportunities and off-the-shelf marketing tools to help networks highlight their content to affiliates and to consumers. These include a monthly Free On Demand newsletter that goes to all Avail-TVN VOD affiliates to highlight promotions, new series and new services that are available, and custom barker channels that showcase the free and transactional content always available on demand.

Linear Services

Digital Media poses unique challenges as well as opportunities: Licensing agreements, network integration, bandwidth management across existing and emerging platforms, customer care, and management- all affected by the advent of new technologies and evolving consumer viewing preferences. Avail-TVN provides a comprehensive channel and technology offering that allows Content Partners a way to convert MPEG-2 transport streams into a rich MPEG-4 signal and provides Service Providers with a scalable, integrated platform solution. Avail-TVN provides the best on ramp to launching SD and HD MPEG-4 digital streams.

Technical Support

Avail-TVN offers 24-hour customer technical support from our state of the art Network Operations Center (NOC) in Burbank, CA. The NOC constantly monitors the VOD system and asset information. Our comprehensive and centralized customer care allows you to spend less time on the phone solving problems with multiple vendors by providing one single-source support solution.