Educast enables students and education establishments to create their own television channels. It provides a library of video-on-demand resource and research content which students and teachers may access to support their lessons; and it provides an archive of video clips and rushes which may be used for editing purposes.
Educast allows students to expand their studies, learn about media broadcast from industry professionals and take their content direct to television.
GDB Secure's platform, security and age verification have been well received by both the BBFC and Ofcom.
The Educast platform includes GDB Secure's own middleware (content management system), G-Studio, which constitutes the 'backbone' of GDB Secure's IPTV services and is delivered using Microsoft's WMV and VC-1 codecs; plus the provision of specialist set-top boxes.
A new internet protocol set-top box (IP-STB) has been created especially for educational institutions and has its own Educast-specific electronic programme guide (EPG).