Austar Broadband TV Commercial
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AUSTAR's television subscriber base has grown to 747,148 (at 30 June 2010), the largest subscription television operator in regional and rural Australia. AUSTAR provides, of subscription television services in a service area of approximately 2.4m homes, one-third of Australia's total homes, primarily using digital satellite technology. AUSTAR also operates a digital cable network in Darwin
It is owned by Austar United Communications Limited (). 54% of Austar United is owned by Liberty Global, through United Austar Partners. The remaining 46% is owned by public shareholders
Austar also owns 50% of XYZnetworks, a pay television program provider, a 50-50 joint venture between Foxtel and Austar.
AUSTAR's main business is subscription television, serving customers outside of the major metro areas. It takes programming from both Foxtel and Optus services, and operates on a digital platform.
AUSTAR Television is available in 2.4 million homes in regional and rural areas of all mainland states (with the exception of Western Australia), including northern Queensland, western Queensland, the east coast of Queensland from the Gold Coast to Cairns, New South Wales (excluding Newcastle and the Central Coast regions of NSW), South Australia, Victoria, most regional and remote areas of Tasmania and the Northern Territory and the capital cities of Darwin and Hobart. Subscriber numbers to Austar Television are second behind Foxtel. Delivery methods include utilising the Optus C-Class Satellite Optus C1 and a digital cable network in Darwin.
The current MyStar is the model T500. It is a four-tuner set-top box equipped with two satellite tuners and two terrestrial tuners available both for viewing and recording standard definition digital free-to-air services including full electronic program guide data for Seven Network, WIN Television, Prime Television and Network Ten. (ABC, SBS and ABC2 continue to be provided via satellite). However, only two tuners can be used, owing to the fact the processor is not capable of handling all four tuners at once.
It features a 160 GB hard drive, with 120 GB user accessible. It can record 60 hours of content. Because it is equipped with Macrovision copy protection, content saved to the MyStar cannot be transferred to other media (such as VHS or DVD) without the use of something such as a video stabiliser. It has support for Time shifting for up to one hour.
Support for Dolby Digital Surround Sound is available on selected programming when connected to appropriate equipment, however the Mystar box won't control the volume when using optical or coax, the volume must be controlled by the device it is plugged in to. It also has support for Closed Captioning and four different aspect ratios (4:3 Cropped, 16:9 Letterbox, 16:9 Postcard and 16:9 Widescreen). Both of these features are accessible through the remote's coloured buttons.
At 31 December 2009, AUSTARnet had 12,671 customers.
Austar held the 2.5 & 3.5 GHz spectrum licences in regional Australia. This spectrum is ideally suited for WiMAX.
Category:Australian television networks Category:Australian subscription television services Category:Media companies of Australia Category:Entertainment companies of Australia Category:Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange Category:Companies based in Sydney Category:Companies established in 1994
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