A summary of OTT Video News – Deals, Launches and products. US encoder supplier Harmonic says that AsiaSat a leading satellite operator, will launch a UHD version of its HVN channel on AsiaSat 4 at 122 degrees East for the Asia-Pacific region, across 50 countries from New Zealand to Pakistan. HVN will use Harmonic’s MediaGrid shared storage system, its Polaris playout management suite and its Spectrum X server system, as well as its Electra X3 UHD media processor. Satellite provider O3b Networks and local satellite specialist SpeedCast have launched internet service from the O3b satellite network for Christmas Island, in Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. The island has just 2100 people and it has never had the internet before.…