SLT's technology creates TV history

Sri Lanka's television industry created history during the 10th South Asian Games as the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation tied up with Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) for live telecast of the 10th South Asian Games. Optical Fiber based Synchronous Digital Interface technology (SDI) provided by SLT is being used for this historic transmission run both worldwide and islandwide.

SLRC has many firsts to its credit. This is the first time that a Sri Lankan television station was engaged in a live telecast with the aid of a "Fiber Optic Cable Link". During the 10th South Asian Games Camera Video signals captured are fed into specialised digital video transmission equipment set up at the games site.

These signals are transmitted as digital signals via a Fiber Optic cable that links these specialised digital encoding equipment (at the stadium) to decoding equipment based at the SLRC studios, from which SLRC carries out their special live telecast of the Games locally.

SLT also facilitated the international live transmission with microwave links and a special Satellite Uplink to the INSAT satellite from the Padduka Satellite Earth station.