Thai cable and satellite television receiver company

TrueVisions is a cable television and satellite television receiver operator in Thailand. TrueVisions is owned by the True Corporation. Until February 2007, it was called the United Broadcasting Corporation ( UBC ), or UBC-True .

history [edit ]

International Broadcasting Corporation ( 1989 – 1998 ) [edit ]

In 1989, the International Broadcasting Corporation ( IBC ) was established by Thaksin Shinawatra. It was the first gear national cable television receiver provider. The MCOT gave the IBC a twenty class concession to a provide subscription television military service. The IBC broadcast its programmes via superintendent eminent frequency microwaves using MMDS. [ 1 ]

In 1995, after approval for an expansion of coverage area, the IBC began its beginning DTH serve. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1997, the South African–Dutch company, MIH Limited, bought a sixteen percentage stake in the IBC. [ 4 ] The IBC obtained most program contentedness from the channels of other countries including HBO, CNN and ESPN .

UTV Cable Network ( 1993 – 1998 ) [edit ]

In September 1995, UTV began a CATV service in the Bangkok metropolitan area. The service was provided on a hybrid roughage coaxial net. The cable technology allowed a count of channels to be offered with high quality legal and pictures. It besides provided a pay-per-view choice. By 1997, the loanblend fiber coaxial cable network reached about 800,000 homes. [ 5 ] In 1997, UTV sold the cable infrastructure part of its business to its baby company, Asia Multimedia Company Limited. This allowed UTV to focus on content and service delivery to subscribers .

amalgamation with United Broadcasting Corporation ( 1998 – 2006 ) [edit ]

In February 1998, after the attack of the 1997 asian fiscal crisis, the IBC merged with UTV in orderliness to decrease functional costs. The United Broadcasting Corporation ( UBC ) was formed. The UBC belated split into two companies : UBC plc. which provided a pay-television overhaul via the IBC ‘s satellite transmittance concession, and UBC Cable Co., Ltd. which provided a pay-television service via UTV ‘s cable concession .
In November 2005, True Corporation ( True ) bought a 30.59 percentage impale in UBC from MIH Holdings. It launched a tender propose for the 221 million shares great at 26.5 baht per parcel and delisted UBC from the Stock Exchange of Thailand ( SET ). [ 6 ] In April 2006, UBC rebranded to “ UBC-True ”. UBC was delisted from SET on April 11, 2006. [ 7 ] On April 2, 2006, UBC-True announced that it would launch the documentary channels research 1, explore 2, and explore 3 in October 2006. UBC-True besides announced the launch of entertainment channels, G-Square and UBC Preview, followed by two music channels, Majung TV and True Music .

TrueVisions ( 2007 – present ) [edit ]

On January 24, 2007, UBC-True was re-branded as “ TrueVisions ” ( TrueVisions UBC ). It announced its purchase of single rights to the Premier League. [ 8 ] On July 12, 2012, after a long conflict about Copyright misdemeanor ( piracy ), TrueVisions switched its contentedness encoding system to VideoGuard. It besides upgraded its video encoding from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4. This was used with the new HD set-top box launched in October 2011. [ 9 ] In 2012, TrueVisions lost its bid for the 2013 – 2016 Premier League circulate rights to a new company, CTH. In 2016, TrueVisions restored the Premier League contents through beIN Sports, the Qatar based sports network. After negotiations, TrueVisions aired 6 beIN sports channels. [ 10 ]
At the end of the 2008 fiscal year, TrueVisions had 799,837 subscribers ( 1,469,000 subscribers including FreeView ). [ 11 ] The table below, charts the annual emergence of TrueVisions ‘ subscriber base ( excluding TrueLife FreeView ) : [ 12 ]

Year Subscribers
1998 301,309
1999 324,537
2000 380,956
2001 406,589
2002 437,845
2003 434,815
2004 457,542
2005 483,816
2006 558,860
2007 618,228
2008 799,837

Products [edit ]

personal Video Recording System [edit ]

In July 2008, TrueVisions launched its PVR ( Personal-Digital Video Recording ) organization. The TrueVisions PVR set-top box included a 140 GB hard drive for recording. It was sold individually with an extra monthly fee. [ 13 ]

HD set-top box [edit ]

In October 2011, TrueVisions launched an HD descrambler and all-in-one set-top box called “ HD Plus ” following the launch of its HDTV serve. The HD Plus was manufactured by Samsung and Humax. HD Plus besides has the PVR have which recorded using an external eSATA hard drive. On September 22, 2014, the excess monthly fee for PVR was removed for customers with premium packages. [ 14 ] [ 15 ]

High-definition channels [edit ]

In November 2007, TrueVisions started testing its high definition ( HD ) broadcasts and its new HD PVR set-top box. The system was besides demonstrated at the Bangkok ICT Expo. [ 16 ] In 2010, TrueVisions offered customers with premium subscriptions three HD channels ( HBO and two sports channels ) for an extra requital. The original HD set-top box did not have a DVR function. In 2011, TrueVisions offered CATV customer eight new HD channels, and a new combined HD and PVR set-top box. This coincided with extension of fiber ocular cable networks to some peasant areas. [ 17 ] On July 16, 2012, TrueVisions expanded their HD offerings to seventeen channels, making all HD channels available to both DSTV and CATV subscribers. [ 18 ] In September 2016, TrueVisions offered fifty-six HD channels .

3D broadcasts [edit ]

In 2008, TrueVisions tested 3D broadcasts, showing short European-made vignettes filmed using the Pulfrich effect. In 2009, segments of Academy Fantasia were broadcast live using the Pulfrich effect. [ 19 ] Since 2013, the True Film HD transmit has aired selected movies in a Side-By-Side 3D format. [ 20 ]

4K UHD [edit ]

On May 18, 2018, TrueVisions announced it will broadcast most of the 2018 FIFA World Cup populate matches in UHD on a new give 4K channel. [ 21 ]

TrueID television [edit ]

The “ TrueID television receiver ” service offers more watch options. Customers can view their subscribed channels ( but not all channels ) on any fluid device. Functions include “ on demand ” and “ word picture quality ”. [ citation needed ]

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