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Canal Digitaal Satelliet is a provider of digital television via satellite for the Dutch market, using the Astra-1 satellites at 19.2°E A private company is a company that is independently owned. ...
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is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. ...
Copy of the original phone of Alexander Graham Bell at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris Telecommunication is the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ...
Direct broadcast satellite (DBS) is a term used to refer to satellite television broadcasts intended for home reception, also referred to as direct-to-home signals. ...
A Web site (or colloquially, Website) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP...
SES Astra SA, a subsidiary of SES Global, is a Luxembourg-based (in Betzdorf) corporation which owns and operates the Astra series of geostationary satellites, which transmit approximately 1100 analogue and digital television and radio channels via 176 transponders to 91 million households across Europe. ...
Initially customers wheree mainly people in the Netherlands, who did not have cable access. But in the meantime the company also managed to expand into the cities, although that is complicated due to local building codes restricting the placement of satellite dishes. It is only possible to register as a customer of Canal Digitaal Satelliet using a Dutch postal address, due to copyright restrictions.
Canal Digitaal Satelliet is like the Belgium TV Vlaanderen Digitaal owned by CDS Coöperatieve U.A., which in turn is owned by Airbridge Investments and Providence Equity Partners Whereby the last party has a controlling majority investment. Providence Equity Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island that focuses on investments in media and telecommunications. ...
Smartcard
In comparison to for instance many German broadcasters, the Dutch public and commercial broadcasts are not freely available via satellite. To receive the Dutch broadcasts a smartcard is required to decrypt the mediaguard 2 signal. A smart card, or integrated circuit(s) card (ICC), is defined as any integrated circuitry embedded into a flat, plastic body. ...
Mediaguard is a conditional access system for digital television developed by SECA (Société Européenne de Contrôle dAccès), which has since become Nagra France. ...
A standard DVB-C receiver is used, which can also receive other free-to-air broadcasts. DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 300 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC...
Free-to-air is a phrase used to describe television and radio broadcasts which are available without subscription and without decryption (pay-TV). ...
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