CANAL+TECHNOLOGIES Signs New Agreements With Operators In India and Japan.PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 1999-- CANAL+TECHNOLOGIES, the world's leading supplier of digital broadcasting Digital broadcasting is the practice of using digital data rather than analogue waveforms to carry broadcasts over television channels or assigned radio frequency bands. It is becoming increasingly popular for television usage (especially satellite television) but is having a software solutions, will provide its conditional access system A conditional access system (CAS) is a system by which electronic transmission of digital media, especially satellite television signals through cable, is limited to subscribed clients. This is called conditional access. MEDIAGUARD and interactive middleware MEDIAHIGHWAY to the Asian television network Zee Network for a digital package of seven channels initially intended for cable operators in India. This direct-to-operators (DTO DTO Data Transfer Object DTO Download-To-Own (video content) DTO Data Transport Option (Computer Associates' Unicenter addon) DTO Disruptive Technology Office ) service is being launched this September and will reach cable head ends equipped with digital terminals based on CANAL+TECHNOLOGIES' systems. There are about 80,000 cable operators in India, including Zee's SitiCable, the largest cable network in India with a presence in more than 42 cities. Zee Network is the world's most popular Asian television network with its flagship channel Zee TV Zee TV is an India-based satellite television channel in the Zee Network umbrella, which carries broadcasts in Hindi, Urdu, and other regional languages of India. As well as broadcasting in South Asia, it also reaches audiences in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, East Asia, having presence in Asia, Europe, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . CANAL+TECHNOLOGIES also announced Monday that it is finalizing an interactive electronic program guide for the Japanese market based on MEDIAHIGHWAY. Available before the end of the year, this program guide has already been selected by the Japanese electronics supplier Pioneer for the cable operator Jupiter, one of the largest networks in Japan. This program guide has been developed within the framework of a partnership with Pioneer that allows the CANAL+Group to extend the availability of its technology to the Japanese market and offer operators in this country a wealth of interactive applications based on MEDIAHIGHWAY. CANAL+TECHNOLOGIES, the technology arm of CANAL+, Europe's largest pay-TV operator, with more than 12 million subscriptions and revenues in excess of FRF FRF The ISO 4217 currency code for the French Franc. 16 billion in 1998, offers a wide range of field-proven and flexible systems to broadcasters and digital operators around the world. The world's leading supplier of digital broadcasting software solutions, with more than 3 million set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. currently in use and a target of 5 million by the end of 1999, CANAL+TECHNOLOGIES has licensed its interactive middleware MEDIAHIGHWAY and its conditional access system MEDIAGUARD to 25 international manufacturers and consumer electronics suppliers. Its software runs on a wide range of set-top boxes, integrated TV sets and PC cards, and in digital cable, satellite and terrestrial environments. CANAL+TECHNOLOGIES has offices in Paris and in Cupertino, Calif. CANAL+TECHNOLOGIES can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.canalplus-technologies.com. |
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