[Satellite TODAY 03-02-11] Spanish broadcaster Starmax HD has contracted GlobeCast to provide aggregation, encryption and delivery of the full bouquet of channels broadcast to households across Spain, GlobeCast announced March 1.
    GlobeCast’s will provide Starmax HD with an end-to-end service that includes fiber contribution from several countries; reception of SD and HD channels at the company’s Sainte Assise teleport in France; signal compression in MPEG-4 with multiplexing, uplink and satellite capacity; and encryption for Conax viewer access cards.
    "Even though more than half of Spanish households have HD-compatible technology, most Spanish consumers are not enjoying HD content to the fullest extent, With the GlobeCast partnership, Starmax HD aims to change that," Starmax HD Managing Director Maciej Sojka said in a statement.