SES Digital Network Operation (DINO). Photo: SES

[Via Satellite 02-09-2016] Tele 5, the German commercial broadcaster, has renewed a multi-year contract with SES subsidiary SES Platform Services, for services that include editing and distributing video and metadata (such as information about license periods, pictures, trailers and brief descriptions) from live broadcasting to Video-on-Demand (VOD).

Tele 5 has more than 8,000 hours of HD video material and more than 2,000 assets — from feature films to magazine formats and original reporting — stored with SES Platform Services’ Fluid Media Asset Management (Fluid MAM), a Web-based media management application based on secure cloud technology. It enables companies to digitally manage their video and metadata before delivering the content to Internet or VOD platforms. Tele 5 will use Fluid MAM to deliver more than 1,200 hours of VOD content annually. The flexible playout system Fluid Play guarantees high audiovisual quality and allows for sophisticated video effects and special forms of advertising.