Paris, 01 March 2011 - Starmax HD, Spain’s new HD service, has chosen GlobeCast to provide aggregation, encryption and delivery of the full bouquet of channels broadcast to millions of households across the country. Hailed as a significant innovation in pay-tv, Starmax HD has been developed from the ground up to provide the best HDTV platform to Spanish viewers in an accessible, affordable package without requiring a contract or minimum term.

GlobeCast’s end-to-end service for Starmax HD includes fiber contribution from several countries, reception of SD and HD channels at the company’s Saint-Assise teleport in France, signal compression in MPEG4 with multiplexing, uplink and satellite capacity, and encryption for Conax.

"Even though more than half of the Spanish households are compatible with HD technology, most Spanish consumers are not enjoying HD content to the fullest extent. said Maciej Sojka, Starmax HD Managing Director. “Starmax HD will change the way we watch TV, with a groundbreaking platform.”

In addition to GlobeCast’s content management and transmission services, the Starmax platform uses set top boxes from Ferguson and viewer access cards from Conax. Starmax viewers will have the ability to record programs and play content files from external hard drives, with internet access to streaming content through the set top box.