STV Announces Deal With RealNetworks to Provide Encoding Services

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STV Communications Inc. (http://www.stv.com) announced a collaboration with RealNetworks (http://www.realnetworks.com) to provide encoding and other production services to RealNetworks' customers.

STV will also provide live event production, post production, and other services to RealNetworks' customers.

"The alliance between STV and RealNetworks is ideal. STV specializes in high-end production and conversion of audio and video material into a streaming media format, and RealNetworks is an acknowledged technology leader in this space," said Jan Brzeski, co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of STV. "This enables STV to offer our full suite of services to customers in an exciting, powerful way, worldwide."

"We are excited to be working with STV," said Ben Rotholtz, general manager, Media Systems, RealNetworks.