|
Pulse (TV Channel)
Pulse was an entertainment channel focusing on eSports as well as American extreme sports, classic films, and mixed martial arts; it was broadcast in the United Kingdom on British Sky Broadcasting. It ceased operation in March 2009. Coverage of eSports The channel was re-branded from XLEAGUE.TV, an eSports channel. Several time-shift channels were available during the time of air - Pulse +30, Pulse +45 and Pulse +1. Pulse +30mins was the first one to be closed down, on 24 November 2008. Pulse +1 was the second, which closed down on 9 November 2008 and was replaced with HiTV. Two days later on 11 November 2008, a second timeshift, Pulse +45mins, was closed down, which suddenly fell off the air. However, it did later return on 24 November 2008 after Pulse +30mins closed down. The Pulse +30mins EPG slot was replaced by OBE TV. Pulse was removed from the Sky EPG on 10 February 2009. Pulse +45mins was replaced by Rural TV on 2 March 2009. It featured coverage of eSports and, in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
576i
576i is a standard-definition television, standard-definition digital video mode, originally used for digitizing analog television in most countries of the world where the utility frequency for electric power distribution is 50 Hz. Because of its close association with the legacy color encoding systems, it is often referred to as PAL, PAL/SECAM or SECAM when compared to its 60 Hz (typically, see PAL-M) NTSC-colour-encoded counterpart, 480i. The ''576'' identifies a vertical resolution of 576 lines, and the ''i'' identifies it as an Interlaced video, interlaced resolution. The field rate, which is 50 Hertz, Hz, is sometimes included when identifying the video mode, i.e. 576i50; another notation, endorsed by both the International Telecommunication Union in BT.601 and SMPTE in SMPTE 259M, includes the frame rate, as in 576i/25. Operation In analogue television, the full Raster scan, raster uses 625 lines, with 49 lines having no image content to allow time for cathode r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESports
Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams. Although organized competitions have long been a part of video game culture, these were largely between amateurs until the late 2000s, when participation by professional gamers and spectatorship in these events through live streaming saw a large surge in popularity. By the 2010s, esports was a significant factor in the video game industry, with many game developers actively designing and providing funding for tournaments and other events. The most common video game genres associated with esports are multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), first-person shooter (FPS), fighting, card, battle royale and real-time strategy (RTS) games. Popular esports franchises include ''League of Legends'', ''Dota'', ''Counter-Strike'', ''Valorant'', ''Overwatch'', ''Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Sky Broadcasting
Sky UK Limited is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television and broadband Internet services, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom. It is a subsidiary of Sky Group and from 2018 onwards, part of Comcast. It is the UK's largest pay-TV broadcaster with 12.7 million customers as of the end of 2019 for its digital satellite TV platform. Sky's flagship products are Sky Q and the internet-based Sky Glass, and its flagship channels are Sky Showcase, Sky Sports and Sky Atlantic. Formed as British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) in November 1990 through the merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, it grew into a major media company by the end of the decade, notably owning all the television broadcasting rights for the Premier League and almost all the domestic rights of Hollywood films. Following BSkyB's acquisition of Sky Italia and a majority interest in Sky Deutschland in 2014, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XLEAGUE
X-League or X League can mean: * X-League (Japan), an American football league based in Japan * X-League Indoor Football, a professional indoor American football league that played for only two seasons in 2014 and 2015 * X League (women's football), a women's football league in the United States * XLEAGUE.TV, a UK satellite TV channel See also * XFL (2001), a professional American football league in the United States that played for one season in 2001 * XFL (2020), the second incarnation of the league * Super League X, an English Rugby League contest in 2005 * XFL (other) XFL may refer to: Sports * XFL (2001), a defunct American football league that played its only season in 2001 * XFL (2020), a professional American football league Vehicles * Bell XFL Airabonita, a 1940 U.S. Navy experimental interceptor aircraf ... * Legio X (other), various Roman "X Legions" {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HiTV
High Television (also known as HiTV) was Entertainment Highway's multi-channel digital satellite television service in Nigeria, launched in 2007. It useHypercableDigital Terrestrial technology and launched Direct to Home (DTH) Satellite technology on the August 1, 2007. HiTV later broadcast its material only on satellite at the price of N3,500 ($27.73) monthly. It was the first television platform in Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ... to deploy Hypercable, a terrestrial pay-per-view TV decoder system. HiTV services were stopped in November 2011 due to financial difficulties. The company no longer exists. See also * List of satellite television service providers in Nigeria References Hypercable Case Studies [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Original Black Entertainment TV
OBE TV (Original Black Entertainment TV) was a British television channel launched in September 2003. It showed film, food, advertisements, sports and talk shows as well as conservative Christian programmes. The channel was aimed at African audiences and showed programmes from South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana. Its programmes were primarily taken from the South African Broadcasting Corporation, including the SABC's news broadcasts. A timeshifted service named OBE +1 launched on Thursday 29 November 2007 and it was replaced by DMAX on 8 January 2008 while the linear channel closed down permanently in 2011. Programming *Miracle Power - with Pastor Kingsley Appiagyei *Bruce's Kitchen *Home Sweet Home *Taxi Driver *London Got Problem *Centre 4 *Paridigams *Driss's Kitchen *Hotel St. James *I Stand Accused *Tentacles *Shot One - a interviews about Congo Gospel Artists with Bony Tongomo and Congo Soukous Artists with Tyty Ilunga *Music Africa - a slot that shows music videos from West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural TV
Rural TV was a rural lifestyle and culture television channel, broadcast internationally. It was launched on March 2, 2009, replacing Pulse +45mins. It merged with FamilyNet in 2013. Background Rural TV, known as "The World's Rural Channel", was considered to have been the world's first 24-hour international multi-media channel dedicated to serving the needs, and interests, of country people, and those with a passion for rural affairs. Programmes are aimed at enthusiasts for equine, rural lifestyle, and farming, along with traditional country music and entertainment. The Rural TV website offered video-on-demand and streaming video of the channels content through its "Country Club" membership subscription. In addition, a Rural TV Newsletter, "The Rural Good Times Dispatch" is published bi-weekly. Rural TV was the international sister channel of RFD-TV RFD-TV is an American pay television channel owned by Rural Media Group, Inc. The channel features programming devoted to ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cybernet
''Cybernet'' (also known as Interactive) was a weekly video gaming magazine programme, originally broadcast overnight on the ITV network in the United Kingdom. The programme was commissioned by ''Yorkshire Television'' and produced by ''Capricorn Programmes'' on BFI Retrieved on 2007.03.14 '' (who also produced the similar '' Movies, Games and Videos'') and also aired on in Gibraltar. It was also broadcast on various television stations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Dignitas
Dignitas, formerly known as Team Dignitas, is a professional esports organization based in Newark, New Jersey Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun "Apollo" Clark
Shaun Clark (born 14 October 1989 in Staffordshire), also known by the handle, Apollo, is an esports commentator and former professional player. Apollo started his career as part of Team Dignitas playing ''Command & Conquer 3 ''Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars'' is a 2007 science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, Windows, Mac OS X and Xbox 360 platforms, and released internationally in March 2007 ...''. A highlight of his time playing that game was coming in first place at the 2007 World Cyber Games. In 2009 Apollo retired from playing ''Command And Conquer'' and started playing poker and ''StarCraft: Brood War'' awaiting the release of ''StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty''. Shaun Clark moved to South Korea in the summer of 2010 to live with Nick “Tasteless” Plott who pushed him to go more into the direction of commentating ''StarCraft II'', although his original goal was becoming a professional player. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.svg "Click for more on -> United Kingdom")
