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Revision as of 20:53, 30 November 2008

NOVA Greece
Company typePrivate
IndustryTelecommunications
FoundedDecember, 1999
Headquarters
Athens
,
Greece Greece
Area served
Greece
ProductsDirect Broadcast Satellite
Increase US $54.06 million (2007)
OwnerForthnet
Number of employees
240
ParentForthnet
Websitehttp://www.nova.gr

NOVA Greece is a Greek digital satellite pay TV platform owned by Multichoice Hellas. It was launched on December 1999 and is the first and (currently) only pay TV satellite service in Greece.

NOVA offers Greek subscribers an array of international and domestic programmes (including news, sports, movies, music, children's programmes and general entertainment channels) plus the majority of popular Greek terrestrial TV channels along with a number of Greek terrestrial radio stations. International programmes are offered in their original soundtrack, with Greek subtitles. Some interactive services like games, cinema & theatre listings, lottery numbers, news headlines and weather reports are also provided.

On April 14, 2008, Greek telecommunications company Forthnet purchased Netmed, parent firm of NOVA Greece.[1] In 2008 Nova Greece had 350,000 subscribers.[2] The transaction is valued at 430 million euros.

Technical Information

NOVA broadcasts solely in standard definition DVB-compliant MPEG-2 format, through Hotbird 8 satellite at 13°E.[3] The service is encrypted with Irdeto conditional access system and the subscriber has the option of buying a specific set-top box, or using any DVB-S Irdeto enabled set-top box. Recently NOVA introduced a PVR service, accessible only through a (different) specific set-top box. This service requires an extra subscription fee but also provides the subscriber with the option to watch two different channels on two different TV sets in the same household.

Nova also offers its channels through the IPTV service of On Telecoms. On Telecoms subscribers can sign up to watch all the channels offered by Nova through their remote control but have to pay a separate bill to Nova for that service.

Panasat

Nova Satellite Package includes digital satellite receivers manufactured by Panasat. The current models are Panasat 720i, Panasat 910, as well as the older Panasat 700 and Panasat 642.

Channel List

Children's

Documentaries

Entertainment

Movies

Music

News

Sports

Other

Greek Terrestrial Channels

Interactive Music Channels

  • Mad Music Seasonal
  • Mad Music My Rock
  • Mad Music Hits GR
  • Mad Music Greek Classics
  • Mad Music Rebetica - Laika

Adult Channels (Require an extra subscription fee)

Criticism

Nova Greece is said by subscribers in Greece to have the worst value for money over satellite providers in Europe, due to extreme subscription prices, lower than average picture quality (not the worst though, as sources like to say, since there are Balkan and Eastern Europe providers which for a far lower price offer by far worse picture quality) and a content that barely satisfies demanding viewers. [citation needed]

It is said by most television enthusiasts in Greece that the sum of Nova's characteristics show that total customer satisfaction is not by any means comparable to that of subscribers of other European satellite providers, like SKY Italia, Sky UK or German Premiere.[citation needed]

Degradation to the picture quality due to extensive use of heavy MPEG compression (a technique that offers more available programs at the price of lower total image quality per channel added) also effects terrestrial repeaters and that practice seriously degrades picture of all commercial national television stations nationwide, since they are fed by Nova.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Business finance news - currency market news - online UK currency markets - financial news - Interactive Investor
  2. ^ "MultiChoice Hellas Renews Eutelsat HOT BIRD(TM) Capacity to 2020 and Takes Fifth HOT BIRD(TM) Transponder". PR Newswire. Digital Media Online, Inc. 06/05/2008. Retrieved 2008-05-07. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ "Eutelsat Hotbird 8". Retrieved 2008-07-07.
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