C-DAC, Mindport tie-up for subtitling technology

Mindport’s systems integration and consulting division, Mindport Solutions is operating from New Delhi. Five of the six businesses of Mindport across the globe are 100 per cent owned by Mindport. In the sixth business, Open TV, Sun MicroSystem has a 20 per cent stake.

C-DAC has developed the Indian language subtitling system called LIPS – Language Independent Program Subtitling. The LIPS system is a vital broadcasting component of multi-cultural multi-lingual societies such as the Indian sub-continent.

The current system operates by passing all data via a suitable carrier to the broadcast point. In future a customized set top box will receive the data and key in a selected language to the signal as part of the digital solution. Mindport and C-DAC will redesign and subtitle mastering station to incorporate the requirement of a DVD digital versatile disk authoring system. This will allow DVD-based programming to be broadcast via digital transmission through a multiplexer and received by a DVD compliant set top boxes.

R K Arora, executive director, C-DAC said that the new collaboration will be able to provide quality TV programmes through the DVD to cable TV and DTH including Pay TV users countrywide. Mindport’s Jaime Styles said that his company is ideally suited to further the development of LIPS.