- compression. The
video format was MPEG-2.
Primestar's satellite receivers were made by
General Instrument.
PrimeStar was
owned by a
consortium of
cable television...
- have been
known as the
Primestar 500:
Primestar 500 (Atlanta), held at
Atlanta Motor Speedway in
March in 1997 and 1998
Primestar 500 (Texas), held at Texas...
-
standard was
DigiCipher 1,
which was used most
notably in the now-defunct
PrimeStar medium-power
direct broadcast satellite (DBS)
system during the early...
- The 1997
Primestar 500 was the
fourth stock car race of the 1997
NASCAR Winston Cup
Series and the 38th
iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday...
-
provider ASkyB, who
later sold the
satellites to
PrimeStar in the
process of
going out of business.
PrimeStar's other satellite,
Tempo 2 (later DirecTV-6) was...
- The 1998
Primestar 500 was the
fourth stock car race of the 1998
NASCAR Winston Cup
Series season and the 39th
iteration of the event. The race was originally...
- The 1999
Primestar 500 was the
sixth stock car race of the 1999
NASCAR Winston Cup
Series season and the
third iteration of the event. The race was held...
-
Adopt Content Labels". Los
Angeles Times. "
PRIMESTAR Launches Four New Channels" (Press release).
PrimeStar. PR Newswire.
January 8, 1999 – via The Free...
- time. In the
early 1990s, four
large American cable companies founded PrimeStar, a
direct broadcasting company using medium power satellites. The relatively...
- 3 billion, and
combined the two
satellite services. In 1999,
DirecTV acquired PrimeStar, a
competitor in the
satellite television industry, for $1.83 billion...
