I thought there was a PR by Divi touting a Telifonica win?...
Used to be on Divi's site, but no more?
Found these elsewhere:
tele-satellit.com
Telefonica Selects DiviCom Digital Video
Distribuidora de Television Digital (DTS) an
organisation headed by Telefonica of Spain, with Television
Espanola (Spanish TV), and the Mexican company Televisa has
selected DiviCom's compression system for the Spanish
Digital Platform (V!a Digital).
Telefonica projects that by the year 2000 it will have
a considerable number of subscribers, many of which are
expected to be outside Spain. Service is expected to begin
this year, on September 1.
tele-satellit.com
SPAIN, CANADA: ECHOSTAR'S FUTURE PLANS
Distribuidora de Television Digital S.A. ("DTS"), a subsidiary of Spain's Telefonica group of companies, has selected EchoStar to supply digital set top boxes for their upcoming satellite television service scheduled to launch this September throughout Spain.
In addition, EchoStar will license its proprietary electronic programming guide for use in connection with the digital receivers for DTS. With an initial order for 1997 of 100,000 digital set top boxes, the total value of the transaction is over US$40 million.
After extensive review of the EchoStar's technology platform and its U.S. facilities, DTS chose to implement the same Nagra-Kudelski /DiviCom Inc. combination used by EchoStar for the DTS conditional access and compression systems.
DTS plans to offer programming using a mini satellite dish and EchoStar's digital satellite receiver. Using the HISPASAT satellite, DTS will offer a wide array of video, audio and pay-per-view movies and events.
Previously, ExpressVu acquired EchoStar's direct-to-home (DTH) satellite technology and will begin offering television service to all regions of Canada in the summer of 1997. As part of that agreement, EchoStar is acting as the prime contractor in the planning, construction and integration of ExpressVu's satellite uplink facility near Toronto. The first phase of this project includes an initial order of 62,000 digital set top boxes and
primary uplink integration payments which combined exceed US$40 million.
EchoStar III, a Lockheed Martin AX2100 satellite, is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an Atlas IIAS launch vehicle in September of 1997. The satellite will include programming complimentary to that offered by the DISH Network, the company's DBS system, on EchoStar I and EchoStar II. The programming line-up could also include Internet delivery applications, and retransmission of local channels to select large markets, EchoStar said in a press release.
tele-satellit.com
* DiviCom Inc, a leading provider of digital video solutions for satellite and terrestrial networks, announced that Distribuidora de Television Digital (DTS) -- an organisation headed by Telefonica of Spain, with Television Espanola (Spanish TV), and the Mexican company Televisa -- has selected DiviCom's compression system for the country's government-supported Digital TV Platform. The encoding system employs sophisticated pre-processing, noise reduction, encoding algorithms, and statistical multiplexing to fit more than 100 channels of high-quality digital video, audio, and data onto a single satellite. [HISPASAT, Ipresume.] |
