SatcoDX - TELE-satellite International Magazine
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MEDIA Satellite & Broadband News<br />
SINGAPORE<br />
MIO TV TO AIR CONTENT FROM HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS<br />
Disney-ABC, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox will air more<br />
than 50 series on Singapore’s Mio TV IPTV platform in a firstof-its-kind<br />
syndication deal with the country’s dominant telecom,<br />
SingTel. The exclusive deal with the one-year-old platform will<br />
see series air as early as 24 hours after their U.S. broadcast.<br />
Financial terms of the licensing agreements were not disclosed.<br />
The exclusive on-demand window will last five to six months.<br />
STARHUB TO ADD FIVE HDTV CHANNELS<br />
Pay-TV operator StarHub plans to be offering five high-definition<br />
channels on its digital cable platform by the end of this year, including<br />
a sports service. HD5 and Sports HD have already joined the<br />
the existing National Geographic Channel HD and Discovery HD.<br />
A fifth high-definition channel will be up and running by year end.<br />
SOUTH KOREA<br />
CABLE OPERATORS CRITICISE IPTV ACT<br />
Cable TV operators have protested against the IPTV Act prepared by<br />
the Korea Communications Commission, saying that it is disappointing<br />
to cable TV and the entire broadcasting industry as the Act is<br />
biased in favor of certain communications operators, especially KT.<br />
The KCC’s IPTV Act confirms accounting separation that all backbone<br />
operators are subject to is enough to prevent them from transferring<br />
their dominating power. In addition, the IPTV act also includes PAR<br />
or Program Access Rule that cable networks have opposed, citing<br />
that the rule might cause infringement on content providers’ property<br />
rights and disrupt the nation’s content industry, the companies said.<br />
THREE IPTV OPERATORS SELECTED FOR PILOT PROJECT<br />
Korea Communications Commission has selected KT Consortium,<br />
Hanaro Consortium and LG Dacom Consortium for a pilot project of<br />
convergence of broadcasting and telecommunication. The selected<br />
consortium, run with 3 billion won of the public and private matching<br />
fund, plans to provide contents owned by national and public institutions<br />
to subscribers so that they can see the contents at home through<br />
IPTV. It will kick off pilot service for 600 households in December.<br />
SRI LANKA<br />
SRI LANKA <strong>TELE</strong>COM PICKS UTSTARCOM IPTV SOLUTION<br />
UTStarcom has signed a contract with Just In Time Holdings to<br />
supply its RollingStream end-to-end IPTV solution to Sri Lanka<br />
Telecom (SLT).SLT will use the RollingStream platform to bring<br />
IPTV services to its growing customer base throughout Sri Lanka.<br />
SLT, with more than 87 per cent market share and a subscriber<br />
base of more than 1.300.000 customers, expects to grow its<br />
residential and commercial business through its increased triple<br />
play capabilities now available with this IPTV deployment.<br />
A F R I C A<br />
SOUTH AFRICA<br />
MULTICHOICE LAUNCHES HDTV<br />
MultiChoice launched HDTV in the South African market in July,<br />
the first of its kind in Africa. The Beijing Olympics were the first<br />
event to broadcast in HD format at the beginning of August. A<br />
new M-Net HD channel will launch at the end of August when HD<br />
PVR decoders will go on sale at major retail stores throughout<br />
the country at the price of R2499.00 (for a limited period only). To<br />
view DStv channels in HD, a customer will need a DStv decoder.<br />
W O R L D<br />
AFN TO GO HD BY 2014<br />
American Forces Network won’t convert its <strong>satellite</strong> broadcast to a<br />
system that’s compatible with high-definition television until 2013 for<br />
Pacific viewers and 2014 for viewers in Europe, according to Larry<br />
Sichter, Defense Media Center public affairs officer. AFN’s current<br />
digital compression system packs 10 channels into a slither of <strong>satellite</strong><br />
broadband. AFN will announce and publicize the exact details<br />
of its conversion plans sometime within the next 12 to 18 months.