- Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) announced the successful launch of a new DVB-S2 DTH platform on AsiaSat 4 to distribute television and radio programmes to audiences in Australia and New Zealand. This new platform is the first DVB-S2 distribution platform launched to serve the entire Australasia region. From the orbital location of 122 degrees East, it currently hosts some 30 television and radio services, broadcasting programmes in Russian, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Cambodian, Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi and Telugu languages and dialects. With the use of a full 54 MHz Ku-band transponder and the more efficient DVB-S2 technology, the new platform is expected to carry an expanding array of premier programming to serve multiple markets across Australasia. The new platform is operated by Teleport Access Services (TAS) in Taiwan. Through TAS’s state of the art teleport facilities, the platform provides signal downlink and turnaround, uplinking and encrypted services for broadcasters. Dish antennas as small as 60-70 cm and 1.1-1.2m can be used in parts of Australia and New Zealand respectively.
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SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), announced that TVB Pay Vision Ltd. has renewed the service of three transponders on the NSS-11 satellite with SES WORLD SKIES to provide pay TV services targeting the Hong Kong market. TVB Pay Vision uses the NSS-11 satellite to target the Hong Kong pay TV market via two options: Delivery to SMATV headends in high density estates, for further delivery to individual units using coaxial cable; and DTH delivery into standalone dishes. TVB Pay Vision offers local and international channels, including its highly attractive TVB family channels, along with four premium channels. In 2011, TVB Pay Vision plans to upgrade its channel offering to include several HD channels. Furthermore, TVB Pay Vision plans to introduce an MPEG-4, HDTV, hybrid satellite/DTT set-top box that would allow transparent viewing of local digital channels as well as pay-TV channels.
NSS-11 satellite
Satnews Daily
March 4th, 2011
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