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26E: Fox Movies HD in menu Abu Dhabi Sports
26E: Fox Movies HD in menu Abu Dhabi Sports

Offer paid sports package, Abu Dhabi Sports will include unsportsmanlike channels in high definition video. Enjoy, fans of movies, documentaries and news.

The multiplex Abu Dhabi Sports on satellite Badr 6 (26°E) appeared Tests HD programs Abu Dhabi National Geographic Adventure HD, Abu Dhabi National Geographic Wild HD, Abu Dhabi Fox Movies HD and Abu Dhabi Sky News HD.

These programs are broadcast in the conditional access system irde*o 2 on these parameters:
Badr 6 (26°E) freq 11.823 GHz, pol. V, SR 27500, FEC 5/6, DVB-S2/8PSK

The same programs will be offered to customers from a competitive system of satellite Nilesat/Atlantic Bird at Position 7 Wed West:

Atlantic Bird 4A (7.2°W), freq 11.488 GHz, pol. H, SR 27500, FEC 5/6, DVB-S2/8PSK

Abu Dhabi Sports platform will be operated by Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC). Regular posting should be opened in the coming days.

Abu Dhabi Sports Channel will bring to his 380 matches, Premier League football, additional magazines, comments.

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36E: RuSong TV shortly before the start
36E: RuSong TV shortly before the start

According to unofficial information, will be on Tuesday 27 July 2010 started a test broadcast of new Russian music TV RuSong TV. Start of regular broadcasting is scheduled for 01 August 2010.

RuSong Station TV will broadcast via satellite Eutelsat W4 36°E position, which will replace the broadcast of another channel X-ray TV (Russian TV Travel Guide).

RuSong TV will offer domestic (Russian) music. It is already in the order of a third channel operator. In addition to the planned RuSong TV company also operates the said X-ray TV and TV music television Bridge.

Technical parameters:
Eutelsat W4 (36°E) freq 12.303 GHz, pol. L, SR 27500, FEC 3/4, DVB-S/QPSK

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Arabsat 5A began commercial operation to 30.5 E
Arabsat 5A began commercial operation to 30.5 E

UAE satellite operator Arabsat launched commercial operation of its new telecommunications satellite, Arabsat 5A to its orbital position 30.5 degrees east, which is gradually migration programs and services of the older satellites Arabsat 2A.

In Central Europe it is possible for the satellite Arabsat 5A tune some signals from the C band, the income requirements for monitoring transmissions from the Ku band are similar to Badr 6 at position 26°E.

On satellite Arabsat 5A is already in operation in several C-band transponders:
Freq 3.708 GHz, pol. R, SR 2200, FEC 3/4, DVB-S/QPSK, FTA, ETV Ethiopia
Freq 3.711 GHz, pol. R, SR 2200, FEC 3/4, DVB-S/QPSK, FTA, TV Oromiyaa
Freq 3.718 GHz, pol. R, SR 2593, FEC 3/4, DVB-S/QPSK, FTA, RTD
Freq 3.823 GHz, pol. L, SR 27500, FEC 3/4, DVB-S/QPSK, FTA, multiplex Arabsat
Freq 4.125 GHz, pol. R, SR 27500, FEC 3/4, DVB-S/QPSK, irde*o2 + Viaccess PC 4.0 + KeyFly, multiplex Al Jazeera Sport

Arabsat 5A was delivered 26 June 2010 Ariane 5 launchers The satellite has a total of 28 transponders in C and 24 Ku-band.

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Pace to buy US broadband company, profits up 46%
Pace to buy US broadband company, profits up 46%

UK digital TV technology spe----------------t Pace is widening its US reach into the telco market with the proposed acquisition of 2Wire, a leading provider of advanced residential gateways and associated software and services for the broadband service provider market, in a $475 million deal. 2Wire has established customer relationships in the tier one telco market, in particular with service providers in North America.

Pace intends to finance the acquisition from existing cash resources, together with new bank facilities. The new bank facilities are currently under negotiation and the Acquisition is conditional, among other things, upon final agreement being reached on the terms of these facilities.

The Pace Board believes the deal will enhance its established position in cable and satellite markets in the US with entry into the tier one telco market. At the same time, 2Wire’s software and gateway expertise will support Pace’s development of its home entertainment convergence strategy.

Once the deal is complete, Pace, already the number one global digital set-top box company, would also become the number one provider of telco residential gateway devices in the US and the number three globally. Pace says the addition of 2Wire’s software and gateway expertise will strengthen the development of its own home entertainment convergence strategy.

The acquisition of Bewan in April 2010 extended Pace’s technology capability into gateways, and the proposed acquisition of 2Wire represents a further step in Pace’s overall strategy and development. Pace believes that in the world’s most developed markets, its customers’ TV-led home entertainment and broadband services are moving towards integrated, converged offerings, making gateway devices and the related software, applications and services increasingly important.

The 2Wire announcement comes as Pace revealed a 46 per cent rise in first-half pre-tax profit, to £45.4 million.
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ISPs battle three-strikes rule
ISPs battle three-strikes rule

Irish ISP UPC has said that it will continue to vigorously defend itself against liability proceedings taken against it in the country's courts by music companies.

The company is the latest in a series of ISPs to take issue with copyright holders' insistence that they police customers' Internet traffic. Ireland's biggest ISP, Eircom, was successfully taken to court by the IRMA (Irish Recorded Music Association) and is currently sending warning letters to customers who have allegedly infringed copyright through illegal downloading. The IP addresses of those customers are supplied by IRMA, which is using a third- firm, Dtecnet, to identify customers who are sharing a specific list of its members' copyright works on peer-to-peer networks.

UPC said that it does not condone piracy, but considers that "there is no basis under Irish or European law requiring an ISP to monitor or block subscriber traffic on its network."

However, the so-called ‘three strikes’ rule - where customers receive three warnings before their Internet connection is cut off - features in French and UK legislation, where it has met with similar anger from ISPs. In France the HADOPI law has met with criticism from European Digital Rights (EDRI) and the French Data Network (FDN). The law allows a fine and the suspension of the users' Internet connection for one year.

Meanwhile in the UK, the Digital Economy Act adopted earlier this year leaves the door open for similar three-strikes action against Internet users suspected of illegal downloading or file-sharing, although it has not so far been enforced. Many consumer groups have been outraged, and the country's two largest ISPs, BT and TalkTalk, have asked the High Court to carry out a judicial review of the Act, in order to establish whether it contravenes existing privacy laws.

The Irish courts will rule on the UPC case on October 11th.

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France Telecom, Vivendi to merge cinema channels?
France Telecom, Vivendi to merge cinema channels?

France Telecom's Orange and Vivendi's Canal Plus are in talks over a merger of their cinema pay-TV channels, according to reports in French newspapers.

Canal Plus would bring its TPS Star movie channel and Orange at least one of the channels from its Orange Cinema Series platform to the 50-50 venture, dailies Le Figaro and La Tribune said.

The deal, if confirmed, would mark a truce between the two groups, which have been competing in French pay-TV for over two years.

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Less than 1% of BitTorrent files confirmed legal
Less than 1% of BitTorrent files confirmed legal

The large majority of content found on BitTorrent is illegal, a study out of the University of Ballarat in Australia has confirmed. Researchers from the university's Internet Commerce Security Laboratory scraped torrents from 23 trackers and looked up the content to determine whether the file was confirmed to be copyrighted. They found that 89 per cent of the files they sampled were confirmed to be illegally shared, and most of the remaining ambiguous 11 per cent was likely to be infringing.

The total sample consisted of 1,000 torrent files—a random selection from the most active seeded files on the trackers they used. Each file was manually checked to see whether it was being legally distributed. Only three cases—0.3 per cent of the files—were determined to be definitely not infringing, while 890 files were confirmed to be illegal.

Additionally, 16 files were of ambiguous origin and 91 files were *****graphic, which were unclear due to their oft-mislabelled nature. "[M]any files were tagged as amateur (suggesting no copyright infringement) but further inspection revealed that they were in fact infringing," wrote the researchers.

Basically, the 89 per cent is a baseline number when it came to infringing files, and the three most shared categories were movies, music, and TV shows—among those categories, there were zero legal files being shared. Assuming all 16 files of ambiguous legality were in fact legal, the researchers said that there was an overall figure of 97.9 per cent infringing content being distributed on BitTorrent.

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Tsai family eyes Carlyle's cable TV unit
Tsai family eyes Carlyle's cable TV unit

The Tsai family, the controlling shareholder of Fubon Financial Holding and Taiwan Mobile, is in talks with Carlyle Group to buy its Taiwan cable TV unit Kbro in a private deal, after an attempt to buy Kbro through Taiwan Mobile failed to receive regulatory approval.

"Everyone knows we always wanted to buy the cable TV company, but the regulator didn't approve it. We want to expand into the content providing industry, so we are in discussions with Carlyle in the direction of private investment," Fubon Chairman Daniel Tsai commented. "It's not a hundred per cent done deal yet, and we hope to get regulatory approval this time by way of private investment."

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ABC iView on Bravia

Australian pubcaster ABC TV’s catch up television service, ABC iView has taken the next step, moving off the computer screen and onto an Internet-connected television service for the first time –going live on Bravia Internet Video, Sony’s IPTV service over the weekend.

ABC iView’s debut on Bravia Internet Video comes at a time of great growth for the catch up service. June was a record month, in which iView recorded 2.235 million visits - its highest number of monthly visits ever. 581,000 visitors came to the service, 55 per cent of whom visited once and 45 per cent visited more than once.

ABC TV’s Head of Multiplatform, Arul Baskaran, says the launch marks an exciting moment for ABC TV. "iView’s move to Sony’s IPTV service sees the merging of two great entertainment platforms – with lots of benefits. As more and more people are choosing iView as a way to enjoy ABC TV’s great content, we want to make accessing the service as easy as possible – which is what this joint project with Sony delivers."

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UFC subpoenas user-generated websites

The UFC’s (Ultimate Fighting Championship) parent company, Zuffa, has served subpoenas on Justin.tv and Ustream.tv — in its latest efforts on its anti-piracy campaign.

The two websites allow members to broadcast live, streaming video, such as UFC pay-per-view events, to an unlimited Internet audience.

According to a statement released by the UFC, more than 36,000 people viewed the UFC 108 event on January 2nd that was uploaded from one IP address. More than 78,000 viewed the UFC 110 event from the same IP address on February 21st.

In serving the subpoenas, the UFC is demanding that the sites disclose the identities of those pirating its content.

The UFC earned an estimated $349 million in pay-per-views in 2009. The company has had nine pay-per-view cards in 2010. Each event costs $44.95