ATLANTA -- TANDBERG Television (TAT.OL) announced today that it provided MPEG-2 video compression technology to NBC during the network’s coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics from Torino, Italy. TANDBERG Television’s digital TV systems played a role in the delivery of footage of both standard (SD) and high definition (HD) video from the NBC broadcast center in Torino and across its US network. NBC’s employment of TANDBERG Television’s compression technology enabled the network to manage bandwidth for the most cost-effective delivery of HD content. TANDBERG Television has been facilitating the delivery of HD content for more than seven years and has been a provider of compression technology for NBC and its Skypath Network System since 2001.

“Every minute of NBC’s Olympic Winter Games coverage from Torino was delivered to the United States using our state-of-the-art technology,” says Reggie Bradford, President, TANDBERG Television. “We were pleased to work with NBC as it fulfilled its commitment to delivering an outstanding broadcast of the Olympic Winter Games to millions of viewers across America.”

“TANDBERG Television played an instrumental role in helping us design and build a broadcast infrastructure that created the best possible winter Olympics experience for our viewers. We had a tremendous number of compressed feeds from all over Torino and the US, moving both SD and HD pictures on both wired and wireless links,” says David Mazza, Senior Vice President of Engineering, NBC Olympics. “With TANDBERG Television’s help we have employed a number of new and aggressive production techniques in moving HD pictures from place to place. We could not have done all this without their support.”

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