Tata Communications aims to digitise archived historical documents of Doordarshan

Rare and historical documents from the archives of major libraries, films and documentaries of Doordarshan and Films Division of India can now be preserved in electronic form through digitisation. 

Tata Communications Media Services soon plans to digitise such documents of historical and cultural significance. 

"We see great scope of digitising and monetising older documents, and make these available for the public," Sameer Kanse, business head at Tata Communications said today on the sidelines of the CommunicAsia2013 IT conference and exhibition being held from June 18-21 in Singapore. 

He estimates $ 7 billion worth of business in this segment of the digitisation and monetisation of the communications industry with a 30 per cent compounded aggregate growth in the business. 

Tata Communications has also launched the world's first cloud-based broadcast quality video transcoding and delivery service. 

The new content transformation service has already been selected by Viacom18, a joint venture between Viacom Inc and the Network18 Group, to provide high-definition (HD) content transcoding and delivery via the cloud, Tata Communications said. 

Developed in partnership with the US-based Harmonic, the service allows Viacom18 to maximise its return on investments made in creative programming and to tackle piracy by enabling simultaneous syndication play-out anywhere in the world. 

The new service offers content creators, service providers and media professionals an integrated end-to-end workflow for moving content files to the cloud and transcoding them into broadcast quality formats ready for immediate delivery and transmission globally.

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