Thai cable television and satellite television company

TrueVisions is a cable and satellite television 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 national cable television provider. The MCOT gave the IBC a twenty dollar bill class concession to a provide subscription television service. The IBC broadcast its programmes via superintendent high frequency microwaves using MMDS. [ 1 ]

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

UTV Cable Network ( 1993 – 1998 ) [edit ]

In September 1995, UTV began a CATV avail in the Bangkok metropolitan area. The overhaul was provided on a hybrid fiber coaxial network. The cable technology allowed a phone number of channels to be offered with high quality audio and pictures. It besides provided a pay-per-view option. By 1997, the hybrid fiber coaxial cable television network reached about 800,000 homes. [ 5 ] In 1997, UTV sold the cable infrastructure component of its occupation to its baby company, Asia Multimedia Company Limited. This allowed UTV to focus on contented and service manner of speaking to subscribers .

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

In February 1998, after the onset of the 1997 asian fiscal crisis, the IBC merged with UTV in order to decrease operational costs. The United Broadcasting Corporation ( UBC ) was formed. The UBC late split into two companies : UBC plc. which provided a pay-television service via the IBC ‘s satellite transmission concession, and UBC Cable Co., Ltd. which provided a pay-television avail via UTV ‘s cable concession .
In November 2005, True Corporation ( True ) bought a 30.59 percentage stake in UBC from MIH Holdings. It launched a tender offer for the 221 million shares great at 26.5 baht per plowshare 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 explore 1, explore 2, and research 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 leverage of single rights to the Premier League. [ 8 ] On July 12, 2012, after a long battle about Copyright misdemeanor ( plagiarism ), TrueVisions switched its contented encoding system to VideoGuard. It besides upgraded its video encoding from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4. This was used with the raw HD set-top box launched in October 2011. [ 9 ] In 2012, TrueVisions lost its wish for the 2013 – 2016 Premier League broadcast 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 class, TrueVisions had 799,837 subscribers ( 1,469,000 subscribers including FreeView ). [ 11 ] The table below, charts the annual emergence of TrueVisions ‘ subscriber free-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 ) system. The TrueVisions PVR set-top box included a 140 GB hard drive for recording. It was sold individually with an supernumerary 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 launching of its HDTV service. The HD Plus was manufactured by Samsung and Humax. HD Plus besides has the PVR sport which recorded using an external eSATA hard drive. On September 22, 2014, the extra 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 bounty subscriptions three HD channels ( HBO and two sports channels ) for an extra payment. The master HD set-top box did not have a DVR function. In 2011, TrueVisions offered CATV customer eight newly HD channels, and a new combined HD and PVR set-top box. This coincided with extension of fiber eye cable networks to some provincial 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-change European-made vignettes filmed using the Pulfrich effect. In 2009, segments of Academy Fantasia were broadcast survive using the Pulfrich effect. [ 19 ] Since 2013, the True Film HD channel 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 be matches in UHD on a fresh consecrated 4K distribution channel. [ 21 ]

TrueID television receiver [edit ]

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

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