FAQ
To distribute HDTV in your property you need to have these things:
1. HDTV Programming (i.e. DISH Network): A video signal sent from a satellite to an installed commercial satellite dish and delivered to HD satellite receivers in the property’s headend.
2. Pro:Idiom® encryption QAM: A unit
incorporating QAM that converts the high-definition
signal into to an encrypted QAM stream that can be
delivered through the hotel distribution network.
Programmers broadcasting in HD, such as ESPN-HD,
HBO-HD and SHOWTIME-HD require this in order to
protect their content from piracy. This unit also
changes the frequency of the video signal so that it
can be viewed on the desired channel number. For
example, if HBO-HD is coming in on channel 4160, the
QAM modulator could change the frequency so that it
can be viewed on channel 5 at your property.
3. Pro:Idiom® HDTV: Pro:Idiom® enabled HDTVs have
the ability to decode the encrypted signal sent from
the headend so that the content can be seen by your
guest.
4. Have you noticed something missing? With a
Pro:Idiom®-enabled HDTV, no set-top box is needed.
That's four, what's the fifth?
Multicom has implemented a program to make it easy for commercial DISH Network dealers to install and maintain Pro:Idiom® systems in any type of free-to-guest facility - we call the program the Mpro-HD® Dealers Group.
Certified members of the MPro-HD® Dealer Group will be able to take advantage of Multicom's experience, technical support, and monitoring capabilities, giving them a step-up on the competition.
In addition, Multicom's Mpro-HD® Dealer Group provides marketing support and lead generation via tradeshows, email distribution, website promotion, as well as marketing materials.
Multicom's Mpro-HD® Dealer Group, explain more...
The Multicom Dealer Group is a selected nationwide group of Commercial DISH Network retailers who benefit from Multicom's marketing efforts in trade-related magazines, email distribution, website, and tradeshow promotion. Mpro-HD® dealers are provided with location-specific lead referrals generated from these and other marketing efforts, as well as direct marketing materials that can be used to market the Mpro-HD® products and solutions to the hospitality and other free-to-guest facilities
What exactly is Pro:Idiom®?
Pro:Idiom® is a digital content protection system tailored for the hospitaility industry. It allows a central decoder in a hotel to decrypt video from a headend or satellite feed and re-encode it for secure delivery to TV sets in each room.
Pro:Idiom® is a content protection technology that can be used in both bi-directional and one-way systems.
Why Pro:Idiom®?
Content protection was not as big a concern when all of the content was analog. But as free-to-guest programming moves towards HD, digital rights management is being required as part of the transition. In other words, if you want to transmit High-Definition content to the television in a hotel/motel, hospital, or any other free-to-guest facility, the transmission must be encoded.
In addition, Pro:Idiom® eliminates the need to use set-top boxes with special TV sets from LG, Samsung, Panasonic, Sharp, Philips,
and others.
Who's using Pro:Idiom® now?
The list of who’s deploying Pro:Idiom® is growing everyday. Most TV sets sold to the hospitality industry now have Pro:Idiom®. As of mid-2010, Pro:Idiom® is installed on about 1.5 million out of the 5.5 million total screens in the U.S. hospitality industry.
