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Dream Satellite TV is the first all-digital Direct-To-Home (DTH) television broadcasting service via satellite in the Philippines. Broadcasting from the Dream Broadcast Center located at the Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga. Content is received from program providers, compressed and broadcast via Koreasat 5 (Mugunghwa 5) in DVB-S and NTSC color format exclusively to its subscribers using the Integrated Receiver-Decoder and the Conax / Nagravision 3 Encryption System.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Dream Satellite TV Migrated into KoreaSat 5 at 113.0 °E )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Dream TV Taps South Korea's Mugunghwa 5 Satellite )〕 To receive Dream's broadcasting signals, subscribers must acquire a in diameter satellite dish antenna, an Integrated Receiver-Decoder (IRD) and a Dream Conditional Access Card (Smart Card). To provide security and protection, the satellite signals of Dream shall be encrypted using a Conditional Access System. Thus, exclusive use of Dream programs and services will only be available to Dream subscribers. ==History== In April 1997, Dream was incorporated to the Philippine Multi-Media System, Inc. (PMSI). On February 6, 1998, the Philippine Congress passed into law Republic Act No. 8630 which granted PMSI a franchise to construct, install, maintain and operate for commercial purposes and in the public interest, television and radio broadcasting in the Philippines. The franchise term is 25 years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Republic Act No. 8630: An Act granting the Philippine Multi-Media System, Inc., a franchise to construct, install, establish, operate and maintain radio And television stations in the Philippines )〕 On February 1, 2000, The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) granted a provisional authority to engage in Direct-To-Home (DTH) satellite services. On February 7, 2001, the PMSI inaugurates its Dream Broadcasting Center at Clark Development Center, and on April 22, 2001, the commercial launch of Dream Broadcasting System, the first DTH system in the Philippines, took place.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Historical Highlights )〕 In 2011, Antonio Cojuangco, owner of PMSI, has plans to sell the company. In August 2013, it was revealed that SkyCable was in the advanced stages of negotiations of acquisition of PMSI. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dream Satellite TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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