[SatNews] PSI Holdings has selected a HD (STB) solution from ALi Corporation, a STB system-on-chip (SOC) solution provider, to unveil the new HD satellite program for the fast booming satellite market, which now captures 65 percent of the households in Thailand.
PSI is dedicated to bringing affordable satellite television to Thai viewers, maintaining its position as the largest C-band satellite TV platform provider, with more than 12 million subscribers across the country. ALi has been a long-time partner with PSI in supplying cost-effective STB chipset solutions to assist in the penetration of satellite TV in Thailand.
This new partnership on HD satellite STB solution features competitive security solutions from conditional access system vendor, Alliance Broadcast Vision (ABV), and is manufactured by Quanzhou TDX Electronics Co., Ltd. All the collaborations by ALi and partners are aimed at providing HD satellite STBs at affordable price points with enhanced performance to the viewing public in Thailand, as a way to facilitate the transition from SD to HD.
Branded as PSI O2 digital, the new HD STB with enhanced capacity, provides more than 200 SD channels, as well as 8 exclusive HD channels including PSI channel, Workpoint TV, the Shop at Home Channel, Channel 8, Channel 6, the Sun Channel, the World Cup 1 channel and the World Cup 2 Channel (from RS, Thailand’s entertainment company).