Data & Commerce Brings Digital TV to Indonesia; Recently Floated Datacasting Developer DCL to Realize Digital TV Infrastructure Project.Business Editors PERTH, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2000 Data & Commerce Ltd (ASX ASX See: Australian Stock Exchange code: DCL (1) (Digital Command Language) Digital's standard command language for the VMS operating system on its VAX series. (2) (Data Compression L ), a developer and service provider in the digital datacasting arena which was listed on the ASX today, has entered into an agreement with PT RekasisCom Widya to build new television broadcasting infrastructure in Indonesia. The DCL revenue flow is initially expected to generate US $3.7m in revenues which may increase should the project expand to become national. PT RekasisCom is the owner of broadcasting licenses for TV Channel 11 to deliver services to Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang, and Bekasi in Indonesia. It also has a 150Mhz wide LMDS (Local Multipoint Distribution Service) A digital wireless transmission system that works in the 28 GHz range in the U.S. and 24-40 GHz overseas. It requires line of sight between transmitter and receiving antenna, which can be from one to four miles apart license, which may be used for two-way data traffic. RekasisCom has the right to offer Pay TV services, Pay-per-View, digital TV, digital radio, interactive multimedia and two-way wireless Internet. In the first stage of this project, DCL will deliver a digital television broadcast facility, a data center and a small LMDS data service at a project cost of US $3.7m. DCL also has a right to supply for a 3-year term any further purchases by the client of digital set top boxes and broadcasting infrastructure. DCL's public offer of shares was closed oversubscribed Refers to connecting more users to a system than can be fully supported if all of them were using it at the same time. Networks and servers are almost always designed with some amount of oversubscription, counting on the fact that everybody does not need the service simultaneously. on 9 November. DCL has a large number of prospects for projects around the world, with a high degree of confidence in generating and expanding its business. DCL projected AUD AUD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Australian Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. $7.1m in the revenue forecast for 2000-2001. Many countries propose to turn-off analog television Analog television (or analogue television) encodes television and transports the picture and sound information as an analog signal, that is, by varying the amplitude and/or frequencies of the broadcast signal. within a few years and replace it with digital television. In Australia digital television broadcasts by the commercial networks are expected to start on the 1st of January 2001. Based in Perth, Australia Perth may refer to:
In addition DCL is fully equipped to provide datacasting. Datacasting enables transmission of digital content to large groups of users simultaneously using satellite, terrestrial, cable or ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line delivery. As a product of the convergence of digital TV's broadband networks and the Internet, datacasting combines the features of broadcasting to transmit multimedia content to PCs and other receiver devices. International media developer Advent Television Ltd, the world's first DVB-T See DVB. digital television broadcaster with full digital terrestrial TV broadcast facility contributed DCL's business. Australia, all of Europe and parts of Asia including Singapore and India have adopted the European DVB-T standard. Based in Singapore, Advent Television is a leading service provider and consultant for numerous broadcasters all over the world, especially in regard to enhanced television advertising. DCL will approach these broadcasters and offer its digital television solutions. |
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