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AG Telekom launches digital cable service

06 February 2009 13:25 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Aynur Veliyeva - APA-Economics. Azerbaijan-based AG Telekom (Trade Mark is KaTV1) will launch digital cable television services within a few months, said Parviz Gadimov, the General Manager of the Company.
The subscription fee is expected to be AZN 15-20 per month.
Digital technology also gives two-way communication capability to the cable box, so users can purchase pay-per-view programming without use of a telephone line, in addition to video on demand services and a secure signal.
Digital Cable allows for the broadcast of EDTV (480p) as well as HDTV (720p, 1080i, and eventually 1080p). By contrast, analog cable transmits programs solely in the 480i format (the lowest television definition in use today).
The digital cable terminals available to charter customers also include fully functional personal video recorders so you can time-shift programming as you please. Time shifting allows the customer to record any program and watch it anytime they please as though it were recorded on a VCR. Time shifting also means the ability to pause programming in progress anytime you’re watching. This is accomplished by the PVR automatically caching anything you’re watching while you watch so you can pause and even rewind anything you’re viewing, even if you’re not actually recording.