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MiTV restructures, drops UHF-over-IP platform

Nov 2, 2006 10:29

There is a follow-up to an earlier blog entry about MiTV Corp Bhd, Malaysia's second payTV.

On October 31, MiTV management announced the layoff of about 200 employees, and that it was migrating to a technology platform that conforms to open standards.

Launched in September 2005, MiTV adopted a UHF-over-IP platform for its transmission. The company touted it as a "made-in-Malaysia" innovation, though industry insiders widely believed that the untested technology was licensed from a third country.

The company also announced that it would now take some nine months to relocate its broadcast facilities, and to switch over to the MPEG-4 and H.264 open standards for digital terresterial broadcast technology (DVB-T).

MPEG 4, or Moving Picture Expert Group 4, is the standard used to primarily compress audio and video digital data, while the H.264 is the standard for Advance Video Coding that is designed to optimize bandwidth efficiency.

The company said it will invest some RM300 million for the migration exercise and a relaunch is targetted for Q3 2007. During the transition, staff force will be reduced to 110 and all marketing and sales activities shall cease. Existing subscribers will have to make do with only eight international channels and five local ones, which is a far cry from the 50 channels originally publicized.





 
 

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About Jeff Ooi

Jeff Ooi is an Internet and e-Business consultant based in Kuala Lumpur who's spent the last four years blogging internationally on the tech scene, on anything and nothing. Which doesn't really explain why most of his own technology is about three years out of date. He doesn't even own a PDA after his Palm V crashed. He's on 3G, though... Lemak Lemang refers to coconut-flavored sticky rice stuffed in a bamboo container.

 
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