Teledanmark does digital video with Canal Plus................................
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TELEDANMARK GOES DIGITAL
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TeleDanmark launched its digital TV service on a commercial basis last week, our sister publication Cable Europe reported.
The company, as the country's principal cable TV operator, has ordered about 40,000 digital decoders till the end of this year. Per John Jensen, senior vice-president for TeleDanmark Kabel says TeleDanmark has opted to rent the decoders and is offering them for DKr60 a month and is offering them for DKr49 if subscribers buy a programme package.
The programming offering includes: Canal Digital's Canal Entertain package (DKr69 a month for 12 months or DKr89 for a three month commitment, with about 15 international channels including TNT Classic Movies, Sky Entertainment and VH-1, with M2, Fox Kids and Planet to join in April); a Life-Style package for DKr49 (Fashion TV, MCM, VH-1, Muzzik, Arte and Sky Entertainment); a News package for DKr39 (CNBC, Sky News, Worldnet and Bloomberg); a Children's package for DKr29 (Cartoon Network, Fox Kids, Nickelodeon and Sci-Fi) and a Language package for DKr79 (various Arabic, Turkish, Polish and Croatian channels). In addition TeleDanmark is providing pay-per-view and NVOD films services from Canal Plus, with the current 13 dedicated channels to increase to 25 by the end of the year, according to Jensen. Price per film will be DKr35. The Canal Plus, Canal Yellow, Canal Select, TV1000 and TV1000 Cinema pay-TV services are also available.
TeleDanmark is also offering interactive TV programming. The set-tops incorporate OpenTV software. Jensen says the electronic programme guide is "probably the best in Europe". Seven channels of MC Europe available immediately will be increased to 36 over the course of the year. An interactive weather service, Verjrudsigter, will offer forecasts from Denmark and around the world and a shopping service will also be on offer. Three retailers have signed up for the service and Lego had reserved 30 pages; the fashion retail outlet Ellos and BILLETnet (tickets for theatre, sports and concert events) take up the rest. TeleDanmark is additionally offering six games on the platform. |
