Digital TV offers a wider choice of TV viewing with more channels,electronic programme guides,reduced signal interference to deliver improved viewing, features such as wide-screen display, pay-per-view services, digital recording capability, and the potential for interactive services. Digital TV uses multiplexing, to combine and compress multiple TV channels into a single transmission that can be decoded by a suitable digital receiver. Most countries have adopted the global DVB (Digital Video Broadcast) standard. DVB transmissions can be delivered to users over terrestrial or satellite broadcast, cable networks,and fixed and mobile transmission networks,subject to bandwidth availability and decoding capability.
The Walt Disney Company's Asian subsidiary The Walt Disney Company (Southeast Asia) Pte. Ltd. has increased its strategic investment in UTV, India's only integrated media and entertainment company with content creation abilities across platforms and genres. With this investment, Disney will be increasing its stake in UTV to 32.1%, worth approximately $200 million. Ronnie Screwvala, who founded UTV in 1991, and his partners will also increase their combined shareholding in UTV to 32.1% through the issue of warrants.
Sarita Jones, 11 June 2008
Miniweb, the British interactive TV platform spun out of BSkyB, has announced $32 million in venture funding from US investors to take its product offerings international. The Funding comes from Meritage Funds in Denver, Colorado and DeGeorge Holdings III, Nevada.
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Reiko Uchida, 09 September 2008
CBS, the US broadcast network, is paying $1.8bn in cash to acquire CNET Networks, a technology and entertainment website operator. CNET was one of the last of the major independent internet content providers, and the sale price left some experts questioning whether CBS is overpaying to make up...
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Michelle Wong, 16 May 2008
German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired Munich-based Feeem Media, which is working on creating a womens portal at www.Fem.com. The portal should be up and running by the end of the year. Terms were not disclosed, but the deal appears to emulate the womens fashion lifestyle network...
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Simon Fox, 06 June 2008
The London-based Private Equity firm Vitruvian Partners is buying Tinopolis, one of the United Kingdom’s leading independent media companies, with around 2,500 hours of drama, factual, sports and children’s programming produced each year for more than 200 broadcasters worldwide, for about £45m.
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Sarita Jones, 12 May 2008