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Optus Television - History | A Wisdom Archive on Optus Television - History | | Optus Television - History A selection of articles related to Optus Television - History | |
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ARTICLES RELATED TO Optus Television - History | | | |  Optus Television - History: Encyclopedia II - Optus Television - HistoryIts immediate predecessor was Optus Vision, a joint venture between its parent company, Optus, and the large local media companies Publishing and Broadcasting Limited and Seven Network. The Optus Vision joint venture was founded to handle residential cable television and local telephony, while its parent concentrated on corporate, long-distance, satellite and interstate communications. Optus Vision used a unique hybrid cable to connect homes to its network, and later added bro ...
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| | | | Optus Television - History: Encyclopedia II - Optus Television - Optus TV featuring Foxtel Digital In April 2005, Foxtel granted Optus the right to carry the "Foxtel Digital" platform - an expanded range of channels including some interactivity. The service would be resold by Optus, utilising the same equipment as Foxtel (such as the Foxtel iQ PDR, NDS technologies for encryption and OpenTV for interactivity delivery).
This agreement also allows for non-exclusive resale rights to the Foxtel Digital service using Satellite Delivery within Foxtel's service area.
Commencing trials in November 20 ...
See also:Optus Television, Optus Television - History, Optus Television - Satellite Broadcasting, Optus Television - Sports Programming, Optus Television - Subscriber Numbers, Optus Television - Optus iTV Trials, Optus Television - Optus TV featuring Foxtel, Optus Television - Optus TV featuring Foxtel Digital, Optus Television - Channel line-up, Optus Television - Entertainment, Optus Television - Movies, Optus Television - Sports, Optus Television - News Weather, Optus Television - Documentaries & Infotainment, Optus Television - Kids, Optus Television - Music, Optus Television - air Digital Audio, Optus Television - Foxtel Box Office - PPV Movies, Optus Television - Other Read more here: » Optus Television: Encyclopedia II - Optus Television - Optus TV featuring Foxtel Digital |
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| | | | Optus Television - History: Encyclopedia II - Optus Television - Optus TV featuring Foxtel After sigining up to the Content Supply Agreement with Foxtel, Optus Television changed their channel lineup to reflect the offerings from Foxtel. Optus were able to have a number of differences between their offering and the Foxtel offering, so that Optus could meet some contractual obligations they had, as well as satisfying a number of requirements placed on the organisation by the ACCC.
A number of channels that had previously been unique to Optus (in comparison to Foxtel) were removed from Optus' lineup as they competed with chan ...
See also:Optus Television, Optus Television - History, Optus Television - Satellite Broadcasting, Optus Television - Sports Programming, Optus Television - Subscriber Numbers, Optus Television - Optus iTV Trials, Optus Television - Optus TV featuring Foxtel, Optus Television - Optus TV featuring Foxtel Digital, Optus Television - Channel line-up, Optus Television - Entertainment, Optus Television - Movies, Optus Television - Sports, Optus Television - News Weather, Optus Television - Documentaries & Infotainment, Optus Television - Kids, Optus Television - Music, Optus Television - air Digital Audio, Optus Television - Foxtel Box Office - PPV Movies, Optus Television - Other Read more here: » Optus Television: Encyclopedia II - Optus Television - Optus TV featuring Foxtel |
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| | | | Optus Television - History: Encyclopedia II - Optus Television - Optus iTV Trials During 2002-03, Optus trialed interactive digital television over part of its Sydney network. This was known as Optus iTV. The service was unique to Optus and had a good deal of positive consumer feedback. The iTV service utilised the Liberate platform instead of OpenTV, which Foxtel had made a commitment to use for their Digital Service.
The trials were cancelled by Optus after reaching agreement with over the Content Supply Agreement
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See also:Optus Television, Optus Television - History, Optus Television - Satellite Broadcasting, Optus Television - Sports Programming, Optus Television - Subscriber Numbers, Optus Television - Optus iTV Trials, Optus Television - Optus TV featuring Foxtel, Optus Television - Optus TV featuring Foxtel Digital, Optus Television - Channel line-up, Optus Television - Entertainment, Optus Television - Movies, Optus Television - Sports, Optus Television - News Weather, Optus Television - Documentaries & Infotainment, Optus Television - Kids, Optus Television - Music, Optus Television - air Digital Audio, Optus Television - Foxtel Box Office - PPV Movies, Optus Television - Other Read more here: » Optus Television: Encyclopedia II - Optus Television - Optus iTV Trials |
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| | | | Optus Television - History: Encyclopedia II - Optus Television - Subscriber Numbers For some time, Optus has not explicitly released subscriber numbers for their Optus Television service, however combining them with other services offered under the division that Optus Television is apart of.
Since December 2002, subscriber numbers have dropped considerably to almost half of the 241,000 reported. Since that time, Optus has repositioned its television service to being a major componen ...
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