Vizrt Expands APAC Region with Local Myanmar Sales and Support Office

The new Vizrt office is to supply sales and support services to multiple customers in Myanmar including MRTV.

Continuing its efforts to provide hyper-local product support for its customers in the Asia Pacific and China (APAC) region, Vizrt has opened a new Sales and Support office in Yangon, Myanmar. Vizrt has seen an increased demand for its real-time graphics production tools and collaborative workflow platforms in the region. Ms. Bu Saw, a Burmese native, will head up the new office as a Presales/Support Specialist for the newly formed Vizrt Myanmar business unit.

MRTV has launched channels for news, entertainment, sport, and government.

The broadcast market is quickly growing in Myanmar, with new demand from both private and public/state-run broadcasters alike, said Michael Namatinia, president, Vizrt APAC. Through this new office, Vizrt, with its technical and production expertise, we can now work more closely with customers and take advantage of nearby engineering teams that speak the local language. This means our product support response time is greatly decreased and our understanding of the unique problems and requirements of professionals here on the ground is second to none.

One such new customer, the state-run broadcaster MRTV began launching a number of new channels in 2014 that target specific demographics of the population. They include MRTV News, MRTV Entertainment, MRTV Parliament, the Farmer Channel and the National Races Channel. The initial project was expanded to include a second phase of technology upgrades, successfully supported by local Vizrt personnel.

MRTV has already installed the latest Vizrt technology.

There's a real need to upgrade their existing technical facilities and we're excited to report that MRTV has committed much of this project to Vizrt and has already installed the latest Vizrt technology, in two phases [2014 and 2015], as part of their migration to full HD production and broadcasting, Namatinia said.

Among the new Vizrt products purchased by MRTV and now fully operational were a live news production system including Viz Pilot for template-based graphics production in the newsroom, the Viz Trio character generator and graphics control system and a Viz Artist 3D graphics creation system. The broadcaster is also using Viz Engine to driving a Barco 2x3 projection wall in the studio.

We've already received a lot of interest from a number of broadcasters in Myanmar and across the APAC region that seem eager for our help in supporting their future plans, Namatinia said. I think the new Vizrt Myanmar location will fill a gap in the market for technical assistance and response times that are tailored to this unique market.

The address of the new office is: No. 43, 7th floor, Ma Gyi Gyi Street, San Chaung Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Phone: 959972848072 and 959264796280.

About Vizrt Vizrt provides real-time 3D graphics, studio automation, sports analysis and asset management tools for the media and entertainment industry. This includes interactive and virtual solutions, animations, maps, weather, video editing, compositing, and playout tools. Vizrt has customers in more than 100 countries worldwide including CNN, CBS, Fox, BBC, BSkyB, Al Jazeera, NDR, ITN, ZDF, Star TV, Network 18, TV Today, CCTV, NHK and the list keeps growing. Vizrt has nearly 600 employees and operates in 40 offices worldwide. Vizrt is a privately owned company by Nordic Capital Fund VIII.

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