Russia Launches First Satellite HDTV Service
OpenTV Corp. , a leading provider of solutions for the delivery of advanced digital television and cross platform interactive services, today announced that NTV-Plus, Russia's first and only direct-to-home satellite TV operator, will launch high definition television services using their digital television solutions.
NTV-Plus, owned by Gazprom-Media, delivers over 90 television channels to its 560,000 digital television subscribers. The solution delivered by OpenTV includes OpenTV Core2 for High Definition Television (HDTV) and supports both high definition and standard definition channels broadcast in MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 using DVB-S2.
NTV-Plus, owned by Gazprom-Media, delivers over 90 television channels to its 560,000 digital television subscribers. The solution delivered by OpenTV includes OpenTV Core2 for High Definition Television (HDTV) and supports both high definition and standard definition channels broadcast in MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 using DVB-S2.
The operator's launch, on Thomson set-top boxes using the ST7100 chipset and Viaccess Conditional Access, is expected in the second quarter of 2007. It is further expected that OpenTV Core2 will support high definition PVR for NTV-Plus in the future.
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