n was a Polish DTH platform. It was launched on October 12, 2006 and owned by ITI Neovision. On December 31, 2011 the company had reached 929,000 subscribers. On March 21, 2013, n was merged with Cyfra+ to form nc+.

History

In May 2006, the ITI Group announced the opening of a "new generation" subscription television platform for the autumn of 2006, with TVN and Onet acting as key strategic partners in the upcoming project. N was unveiled to the public in September 2006, aiming for an October 12 launch date.

Channels

At closing time, N had 99 encrypted channels (6 in foreign languages), 23

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channels in Polish, 34

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channels, and 3 3D channels.

In-house channels

Throughout its history, N also had its own in-house channels: *Wojna i Pokój (War and Peace): The channel broadcast movies from the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia, with either Polish voice-over or original Russian audio. Converted to HD in 2012, after which the channel timeshared with Sundance Channel. Shut down in 2013 because of the merger. *O.TV: Channel run by Jerzy Owsiak, broadcasts started in 2007 and ended in 2009. It later ran as a block on ZigZap until 2010. *nTALK: Channel focusing on American and Polish talk shows. Started in 2007 and ended in 2009. * nSPORT: Sports channel. Later integrated into the NC+ offer in 2013 and rebranded in 2014.

VOD

* VOD collections ** PictureBox –

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movies ** nSeriale – CBS Television Studios,

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, Buena Vista International,

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and TVN's TV series ** nPremium VOD – movies presented on nFilm HD channels ** funVOD – set of erotic movies ** VOD Disney – Disney's series * Premiery VOD – Warner Bros., Miramax Films,

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, SPI International,

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, DreamWorks,

and

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movies; unlike VOD collections, every movie in "Premiery VOD" is paid separately * nVOD net ** TVN Player ** HBO on Demand **

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** BabyTV

Set-top boxes

As for 2012 n offers four

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es to their subscribers. Most notably, it is the only DTH platform in Poland that doesn't provide CI modules to use with generic DVB-S2 receivers.

References

External links

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Official Internet forum

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