Company Overview

PTS is a leading company in Greece operating as a systems integrator, in the fields of Broadcast Industry as well as in Telecoms, by distributing equipment of leading international firms, in the area of Greece & Cyprus. 

Through more than 25 years development, PTS has scaled up its operation and managed to break away from the traditional role of “international distributor”. In the forthcoming decade the Broadcasting industry and the broader economy is going to be transformed by the increasing trend for global integration and by new client requirements for integration and innovation. 

PTS strategy is dedicated to creating value for its clients and to remain a cutting-edge integrator with innovative and technologically advanced solutions. 

PTS offers a wide choice of equipment, integrated solutions & services, ranging from Broadcast Systems, Outside Broadcast Vehicles and Special Telecom Vehicles.

PTS' Mission is to…

- Provide exceptional and innovative solutions with high technological value as well as “value for money” services to Broadcasting Industry in Greece and Cyprus and offer the best solutions available to support our customers’ goals maintaining our standing as the top technology team to trust

PTS' Vision is to…

- Be recognized by its clients as a proven, trustworthy and experienced partner, having the experience to adapt to the latest technologies, solutions and equipment.

- Help all customers to take advantage of the opportunities in a changing world and the technological progress to positively impact society on a local level.

- Conduct all business in an ethical and sustainable way based on industry best practices, continuous learning and improvement efforts.

PTS' Values are...

- Innovation that matters – for the company and for the clients.

- Trust and personal responsibility throughout all our partnerships and relationships with our customers and employees.

- Dedication to our customer's success.

Multiple National and International Broadcasters, Production & Post-Production companies, have partnered with PTS and benefited from our custom designed solutions, equipment and workflows. Strong customer relationships have set PTS apart from its competitors for the past 25 years. Our experienced Engineers will help you design a custom solution that meets your business needs, increasing thus your operational efficiency and staying ahead of your competition.

Overview

Your privacy is important to PTS; maintaining your trust is paramount to us.

This Statement discloses the information practices for PTS including what type of information is gathered and tracked, how the information is used, and with whom the information is shared.

This Statement applies to PTS Web site that link to this Statement. From time to time, we may supplement this Statement with additional information relating to a particular interaction we have with you.

Collection of Personal Information

You may choose to give us personal information directly in a variety of situations. For example, you may want to give us your name and contact information to communicate with you, to process an order, to provide you a service, or to do business with us if you are a supplier or a business partner. You may share a description of your education and work experience in connection with a job opening at PTS for which you wish to be considered. If you tell us that you do not want us to use your information to make further contact with you beyond fulfilling your request, we will respect your wishes.

We may also collect information relating to your use of our Web site through the use of various technologies. For example, when you visit our Web site, we may log certain information that your browser sends us, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access time, and referring Web site addresses. We may also collect information about the pages you view within our site and other actions you take while visiting us. In addition, we may also use such technologies to determine whether you’ve opened an e-mail or clicked on a link contained in an e-mail. Collecting information in this manner allows us to collect statistics about our Web site usage and effectiveness and personalize your experience while you are on our Web site, as well as tailor our interactions with you. For details regarding the technologies we employ, see “Cookiesand Other Technologies” below.

From time to time, we may also collect information that pertains to you indirectly through other sources, such as list vendors. When we do so, we ask the vendors to confirm that the information was legally acquired by the third party and that we have the right to obtain it from them and use it.

The information that we collect, either directly or indirectly, may be combined to help us improve its overall accuracy and completeness and to help us better tailor our interactions with you.

Use of Personal Information

The following paragraphs describe in more detail how PTS may use your personal information.

Fulfilling your Transaction Request

If you request something from PTS, for example, a product or service, a callback, or specific marketing materials, we will use the information you provide to fulfill your request. To help us do this, we may share information with others, for instance, PTS business partners, financial institutions, shipping companies, or postal or government authorities, such as Customs authorities, involved in fulfillment. In connection with a transaction, we may also contact you as part of our customer satisfaction surveys or for market research purposes.

Providing Support

We may use your personal information to support products or services you have obtained from us, such as notifying you of a product update or fix.

In the course of providing technical support to you, we may sometimes have incidental access to data that you have provided to us or data that is located on your system. This data may contain information about you, your organization’s employees, customers, partners, or suppliers. This Privacy Statement does not apply to our access to or handling of this information; the conditions regarding the handling and processing of that data is covered by the applicable Terms of Use or other agreements between you and PTS.

Marketing

The information you provide to PTS, as well as the information we have collected about you indirectly, may be used by PTS for marketing purposes. Before we do so, however, we will offer you the opportunity to choose whether or not to have your information used in this way. You may at any time choose not to receive marketing materials from us by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each e-mail you may receive, by indicating so when we call you, or by contacting us directly.

Some of our solutions may be co-branded, that is sponsored by both PTS and third parties. If you acquire these solutions, be aware that your information may also be collected by and shared with those third parties. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with their privacy policies to gain an understanding of the manner in which they will handle information about you.

Recruitment

In connection with a job application or inquiry, whether advertised on a PTS Web site or otherwise, you may provide us with information about yourself, such as a resume. We may use this information throughout PTS in order to address your inquiry or consider you for employment purposes. Unless you tell us not to do so, we may keep the information for future consideration.

Protect the Rights and Property of PTS and Others

We may also use or share your information to protect the rights or property of PTS, our business partners, suppliers, clients, or others when we have reasonable grounds to believe that such rights or property have been or could be affected. In addition, we reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, or the rights of others, or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web sites.

Sharing of Personal Information and International Transfers

From time to time, we may disclose information that identifies you at an individual level and which we collected on our Web site to other non-PTS entities that are not acting as our suppliers, such as our business partners. Except as described in this Privacy Statement, we will only do so with your prior consent. We do not sell or lease such information however.

Please be aware that in certain circumstances, personal information may be subject to disclosure to government agencies pursuant to judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process. We may also share your information to protect the rights or property of PTS, our business partners, suppliers or clients, and others when we have reasonable grounds to believe that such rights or property have been or could be affected.

Cookies and Other Technologies

As mentioned above, we collect information from your visits to our Web site to help us gather statistics about our Web site usage and effectiveness, personalize your experience on our site, and tailor our interactions with you.

We do so through the use of various technologies, including one called "cookies". A cookie is a piece of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your computer as a tag that identifies your computer. While cookies are often only used to measure Web site usage and effectiveness and to allow for ease of navigation or use and as such, are not associated with any personal information, they are also used at times to personalize a known visitor’s experience to a Web site by being associated with profile information or user preferences. You can set your browser in most instances to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it or not. You can also generally set your browser to turn off cookies. Since cookies allow you to take advantage of some of our Web site features, we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Online Advertising

PTS does not deliver third party online advertisements on our Web site as well as we do not advertise our products and services on others’ Web sites.

Links to non-PTS Web sites

PTS Web site may contain links to non-PTS Web sites that are not affiliated with PTS. PTS is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other Web sites.

Notification of Changes

We will post a notice for 30 days at the top of this page notifying users when this Privacy Statement is updated or modified in a material way. If we are going to use your personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we can use your personal information in such a way.

Athens, July 2011 - PTS selected to deliver and operate the Wireless and Wired Comms for Opening and Closing ceremonies of Summer Special Olympics “Athens 2011” hosted at Panathinaikon Stadium.

The whole project designed and delivered in cooperation with Riedel Communications.

PTS had the responsibility of the installation, operation and technical support. The equipment provided by Riedel Communications combining analogue and digital technology resulting an integrated and fully digital communication system. The following list summarize the equipment been used.

Athens, July 2011 - PTS selected to deliver and operate the Wireless and Wired Comms for Opening and Closing ceremonies of Summer Special Olympics “Athens 2011” hosted at Panathinaikon Stadium.

The whole project designed and delivered in cooperation with Riedel Communications. PTS had the responsibility of the installation, operation and technical support. The equipment provided by Riedel Communications combining analogue and digital technology resulting an integrated and fully digital communication system. The following list summarize the equipment been used.

CybC, Cyprus national public broadcaster, operating three domestic television channels, an international service and four radio stations, was faced with the challenge of managing tape and film-based archives: decaying media, lack of technical infrastructure, monetize legacy material and rarity of skill sets needed to operate past equipments.

Pierides TechnoSystems Ltd was selected in partnership with NewCytech, to build a system for valued archives and provide a turn -key solution for its historical media assets.

Through a standard web browser, CyBC technical personnel can browse archived material, make shot selections and perform basic edits. High resolution material corresponding to the shot list is automatically extracted from the tape library system and sent for play-out or pushed to a third party non-linear editing (NLE) system for further editing. Asset management technology, tracks metadata throughout the whole content life cycle and allows for customized metadata entries, enabling CyBC to index assets according to their needs and workflow.

This solution provides CyBC with the ability to exploit their files to the maximum. In particular, in the production process, the development of Media Asset Management (MAM), offers tools to facilitate access to all the digitized audiovisual material, as it allows easy data search through selected search modes (key words), while the material is maintained readily available for exploitation and processing, in high quality, for use in the news production, program flow, web portal, and other applications. Furthermore, the user can search for files based on subject, author, date, location, etc. In this way, significant added value to the existing material is developed, for the benefit of both the organization and their audience.

This project enabled CyBC to use its Historical Archives in many ways as well as to preserve them in a safe, ready to use condition.

The conservation and exploitation of assets in national organizations such as CyBC, is not only a profitable investment but an important step in preserving the cultural heritage and history of Cyprus.

To complete the project the contribution of DALET, Harmonic Inc., Front Porch Digital, Spectra Logic and HP, has been significant.

About Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC)

CYPRUS BROADCASTING CORPORATION(CyBC) is the public broadcaster of the Republic of Cyprus.The mission of CyBC is to provide public broadcasting services within the Republic, responding directly to the democratic, social and cultural needs of Cypriot society and to the need to secure pluralism of cultural and linguistic diversity in mass media, including a balanced package of services consisting of informative, cultural and entertainment programs, social service programs, programs addressed to overseas Cypriots, and transmissions related to national emergencies and civil protection efforts.

The first steps in broadcasting in Cyprus were taken in spring 1951, during the British rule. The first radio programs were aired on 4 October 1953 and the first TV programs in October 1957. Upon independence of Cyprus in 1960, the “Cyprus Broadcasting Service” became the “Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation”.

• High Definition D-SNG
• Standard Definition D-SNG
• Disk Based Near Line and Tape Library Based Archiving System
• News Playout System
• Two (2) Automated Playout Systems
• 2 portable video-over-cellular (3G) backpack systems, for live video transmission - LiveU

• Satellite Fixed Earth Station (Nemea)
• D-SNG Vehicle
• 256x256 3G/HD-SDI Router Installation
• Two (2) Channels JPEG2000 Based HD Video transmission Systems

Pierides TechnoSystems along with Omneon Video Networks and Dalet Media Systems has provided a turn key solution for the Dgitization of the Historical Audiovisual Archive of ERT.

The ERT, which operates four television channels and twenty-eight radio stations, was faced with the challenge of managing tape-based archives: decaying media, obsolescence of technical infrastructure required to play legacy material, and rarity of skill sets needed to operate past equipments.

“In building a system for our valued historical archives, we selected Pierides TechnoSystems along with the Omneon Spectrum system and Dalet Media Library because of its open platform and distributed architecture, which make the system easy to integrate with other systems and easy to grow as our archiving needs increase,” said Andreas Loukakis and Yiannis Vougiouklakis, technical and IT administrators, respectively, for the ERT Historical Archive project. “The Spectrum system integrated well with DaletPlys Media Library solution and gives us the scalability we’ll need as we add to our video archives.”

“The ERT has the richest audiovisual archive in Greece. With decades’ worth of tape material decaying, the proper digital transfer and management of our legacy archives had become a priority,” comments, Mr Kostantinos Papagianopoulos, IT director of ERT. “The implementation of DaletPlus Media Library not only provides us with a digital plant for transferring our archives, it also offers the platform needed to distribute and share our cultural reserve across our organization and beyond.”

Today, ERT owns a substantial film archive from the first decade of public television — which includes more than 40,000 hours of material on 35mm film and 210,000 hours on 16mm film — along with Greek and international news bulletins, as well as documentaries from that era. The new archive system will incorporate material preserved on 1- and 2-inch open-reel tape, U-matic videocassettes, 16mm and 35mm film, and also newer formats like Betacam SP and DVCPRO.

see more at:

[External links]

http://www.ert-archives.gr

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