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flannel2808_flannel 29/08/2015 09:08 Page 1 EUROMEDIA DIGITAL MEDIA INTELLIGENCE PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Nick Snow [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR Colin Mann [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Chris Forrester [email protected] PUBLISHING ASSISTANT Nik Roseveare [email protected] ART EDITOR Steve Overbury [email protected] COLUMNIST Larry Gerbrandt CONTRIBUTORS Robert Briel - Amsterdam Dieter Brockmeyer - Frankfurt David del Valle - Madrid Chris Dziadul Pascale Paoli-Lebailly - Paris Philip Hunter Joe O’Halloran Farah Jifri Branislav Pekic - Rome SALES DIRECTOR Sanjeev Bhavnani [email protected] PUBLISHED BY Advanced Television Limited Unit N202 Westminster Business Square 1-45 Durham Street London SE11 5JH Tel: [phone] www.advanced-television.com PRINTED BY Headley Brothers Ltd The Invicta Press Queens Road Ashford Kent TN24 8HH, UK Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone] [email protected] © Advanced Television Limited 2015. All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission is prohibited. ISSN 1477-8092 In this issue, we examine the prospects for satellite services and, in particular, Direct To Home. It doesn’t seem that long ago that major steps forward in transponder technology, ground equipment and compression combined to unleash the small dish TV revolution. Throughout Europe, where broadband cable was often more a conversation piece than an industry, DTH became the way to deliver new pay-TV services. With Sky and Canal + in the vanguard, before long every European nation had at least one DTH pay-TV provider. Even in the US, the Kingdom of Cable, DTH challengers DirectTV and Dish took off. But more recently, all the talk has been of OTT, TV Everywhere and connectivity. These, let’s be honest, are not satellite’s strongest suits. And so, even though millions and millions of TV dishes still stare up at the sky all over world, satellite has begun to be talked about as yesterday’s technology. Everyone is supposedly moving towards ubiquitous IP delivery, even cable