hhhhhmmmm.... name change already I-view is now known as Selectv <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/default/rolleyes.gif" /> <br /><br />Source http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,12657003-462,00.html <br /><br />Pay-TV service to list<br />By Jane Schulze<br />March 26, 2005 <br /><br />AUSTRALIAN investors will get another chance to gain direct exposure to the fickle world of pay-TV when former Foxtel chief executive Jim Blomfield lists his new pay-TV service, Selectv, later this year.<br /><br />Styled as a multi-language pay-TV service, the business has changed its name from i-view and registered Selectv as a business name and as an internet domain name. <br />The Australian understands Mr Blomfield, who was ousted from Foxtel in 2001, will release a prospectus in early June to raise up to $30 million, having already sourced some seed funding. <br /><br />The Selectv service, which will offer between 35 and 40 non-English speaking channels, will launch in May, just before the prospectus is revealed. <br /><br />It will be one of the few new avenues for direct investment in the pay-TV sector since the collapse of Australis Media, owner of the now-defunct Galaxy service, in 1997. <br /><br />The only other direct exposure to the pay TV sector is regional operator Austar. <br /><br />Foxtel is jointly owned by Telstra, Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd and News Corporation, owner of The Australian. Optus's pay-TV service is owned by Singapore Telecommunications. <br /><br />The Selectv service will also offer some English-speaking channels on separate pricing tiers, but the channels and the exact prices have yet to be revealed. <br /><br />However, Selectv is expected to set monthly charges at the lower end of the pricing spectrum. <br /><br />"If there were three or four Greek channels in a package you would not be paying more than $49 a month for it," one of the advisers close to the business said. <br /><br />Unlike the larger Foxtel, Optus and Austar pay-TV operations, Selectv does not require a large investment in infrastructure as the signals will be uplinked to satellites from Hong Kong. <br /><br />One of Selectv's major partners is exTV, the pay-TV arm of Hong Kong free-to-air broadcaster TVB. ExTV will send the signals to PanAmSat's PAS 8 satellite. <br /><br />Selectv's main expenses will be its investment in standard set-top boxes and some marketing costs. <br /><br />It expects to break even in four years after gaining about 40,000 subscribers. <br /><br />It will also offer a unique do-it-yourself installation service for subscribers in isolated areas, but has also contracted installation companies for metropolitan subscribers. <br /><br />Selectv will pitch itself directly at the market left by the demise of Mike Boulos's Television & Radio Broadcast Services. <br /><br />Mr Boulos has since started another pay-TV group called United Broadcasting International, which has some of the same channels as his previous service. <br /><br /><br />my 2 cents worth <br />there still looking for investors <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/default/confused.gif" /> <br />so why do they keep telling people there going to have this and that without anything being solid yet?? e.g. Spanish Channels <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/default/rolleyes.gif" /> <br /><br />also i must say the bit about 4 Greek channels for $50 does sound good to me <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/default/wink.gif" /> <br />but as i said there stil looking for investers so will see how it all turns out with all these new companies fighting over the ethnic people's money on whois going to have the bigger slice of the ethnic market <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/default/rolleyes.gif" /><br /> <br /> <small>[ 26. March 2005, 09:28 AM: Message edited by: -.Lazer.- ]</small>

i also like this part<br /><br />" It expects to break even in four years after gaining about 40,000 subscribers."<br /><br />with this many companies around do they really expect to get to that number with them starting so late in the scene as the other ethnic pay tv companies basically have cash flow coming in now with a customer base with I-View or Selectv ( wateva they want to call them selves ) starting in MAY - JUNE it may be to late for them<br /><br />anyway see how it all turns out<br /> <br /> <small>[ 26. March 2005, 09:41 AM: Message edited by: -.Lazer.- ]</small>

I agree Lazer, don't these companies have some sort of advisors and market researchers, telling them, that the target audience is too small to be divided amoung 4 or 5 sat providers.<br /> <br /> <small>[ 26. March 2005, 09:51 AM: Message edited by: reuder ]</small>

LOL yeh ur right the advisor and researchers must not be that good then if there advising all this things <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/default/rolleyes.gif" /> <br /><br />also would like to show u that on the panglobal website this sentence caught my eye<br /><br />" Immediate access to over 50,000 installed satellite antennas "<br /><br /> http://www.globecastaustralia.com/dth/panglobal.htm <br /><br />this is one of there marketing gimicks to try sign up pay tv companies and telling them there is 50,000 dishes already pointing to PAS8 well they better start facing the truth i can tell u now that there is no were near 50,000 dishes pointing to PAS8 anymore <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/default/rolleyes.gif" /><br /> <br /> <small>[ 26. March 2005, 09:58 AM: Message edited by: -.Lazer.- ]</small>

Another Titanic, 30 Million that won't buy shit, He fool if you want to make money make 80% of your channels English and sell them at 1/2 the price that foxtel flog there service for then you will accomplish two things you screw foxtel, and you will make money.<br /><br /> Sorry I forgot the most important thing. If you use Pas 8 and compete against foxtel you have your transponders turned off.<br /> <br /> <small>[ 26. March 2005, 04:44 PM: Message edited by: Phil Debono ]</small>

Good one Phil, first it was Galaxy thats was shafted by Foxtel than its UBI by Panamsat (who know maybe Foxtel had a part of that too) and if this new provider ever gets off the ground and has English content in it Foxtel and its screws will find a way to stop it and put it out of business.

"Sorry I forgot the most important thing. If you use Pas 8 and compete against foxtel you have your transponders turned off."<br /><br />ONLY if you don't pay your bills just like TARBS didn't

The whole issue is bullshit,How Can anybody start a business when the first thing they do is lying? Secondly I honestly believe these people have got no idea about what they want to do in Australia with these promeses about having the spanish channels when dont even have a transponder or worse a satellite to transmit,I think they should get their shit together before filling the spanish community with false dreams.<br /><br />By the way U.B.I has two new channels with a lot of Telenovelas(Teleseries) from Mexico good on ya U.B.I if you could get the spanish channels first you would have about 1500 people from the gold coast and brisbane under your feet.<br /><br />Tracesat Brisbane

Lazer You are a Legend Buddy...Thank you for all the research you do for all of us.I do really appreciate it.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Tracesat Brisbane:<br /><strong> Lazer You are a Legend Buddy...Thank you for all the research you do for all of us.I do really appreciate it. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">its kool were all here to help each other <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/default/wink.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" />

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by apsattv:<br /><strong> "Sorry I forgot the most important thing. If you use Pas 8 and compete against foxtel you have your transponders turned off."<br /><br />ONLY if you don't pay your bills just like TARBS didn't </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Yes if your one dollar behind or 1 million dollars behind your still behind, but if foxtel was twice as much behind that TARBS was would it get its Transponders turned off. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" /> NO!