What is considered NOT Broadcast ready?
Video DVDs with data files that have been compressed using DVD compression or altered to comply with a DVD codec are NOT considered a broadcast ready format. If your content is submitted in DVD Video format with such compression, it will take longer to process and will incur a 50% surcharge for archiving. Please note that submission of media as digital data files that have been compressed or altered to fit a codec may result in an additional charge based on the required time in our edit bay to output this content to tape first. Please note that we expects all content received for archival and delivery has already passed a Quality Control/Quality Assurance (QC/QA) stage from its place of origin, is clean and: and is in stereo has no superimposed graphics has no chyron also known as lower thirds in USA and astons in the UK. In their simplest form, lower thirds can just be text overlying the video. Other common terms include superbars (US) and name straps (UK). IMPORTANT: A video must be
