Real VU

RealVU
Public
Industry Satellite television
Founded in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Area served
Bangladesh
Key people
Services Direct broadcast satellite, pay television, pay-per-view
Owner Beximco Group (100%)
Members 30000+
Parent Beximco Group
Website realvubd.com

RealVU (stylized as Real VU) is the first Direct-To-Home (DTH) satellite service provider of Bangladesh. Incorporated in 2013, Beximco Communications Limited is a joint venture between Beximco Holdings Limited and General Satellite Group AG. In 2016, it has launched Bangladesh's first Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite TV service under the "RealVU" brand name. RealVU offers a variety of digital International and Bangla channels ranging from entertainment, sports, movies and music to news and documentaries.[1][2] The service is provide over 114 channels including 6 HD to the subscribers currently and more channels will be added latter on.[3] The service is intercepted via ABS2 satellite.


RealVAU's tagline is " লাইফ এখন রিয়েলি রঙ্গিণ!" (life ekhon really rongin/life is now really colourful).[4]
The service officially launched in April 2016.On 24 March 2017, the GS Group holding company

announced the sale of its share in the joint venture Beximco

Communication Ltd that operates in Bangladesh under the

RealVU brand. In so doing, the holding company has

successfully completed an investment project to create the

first satellite Pay-TV operator in the country. Beximco

Communication Ltd will continue to operate the

broadcasting equipment and infrastructure developed and

integrated by GS Group.

The RealVU project was launched in April 2016 in

partnership with BEXIMCO, a Bangladeshi diversified

conglomerate. GS Group served as an investor and provided

the supply and integration of its own software and hardware

solutions, which will still remain the basis of RealVU even

after GS Group leaves the project.

The first national DTH-platform RealVU provides high-

quality digital broadcasting throughout Bangladesh. The

operator offers 112 SD and HD TV channels, including

international channels in English, popular Indian TV content,

as well as channels with local content produced in

Bangladesh. Digital TV set-top boxes developed by GS

Group meet the needs of today’s TV viewers offering smart

functions such as PVR and TimeShift along with an

electronic program guide (EPG).

“Launching the RealVU DTH-platform as a greenfield project

has been truly an exciting experience for GS Group. For the

first time ever, our joint venture has provided access to

digital television to a country with a population of more than

165 million people, where only poor-quality terrestrial and

digital cable TV were previously available. GS Group served

as an investor, supplier and integrator of its own

technological solutions. RealVU is the second international

broadcasting project at a national level with GS Group’s in-

house solutions”, Andrew Bezrukov, Director for Strategic

Marketing, GS Group.

RealVU is the second foreign broadcasting project launched

with the direct involvement of GS Group. From 2012 to

2016, the holding company successfully implemented a

project of creating One TV, the first nationwide DTT-

operator in the Kingdom of Cambodia.

References

  1. "GS Group- Bangladesh". GS Group. General Satellite. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  2. Briel, Robert. "GS Group to launch digital TV in Bangladesh". Broadband TV News. broadbandtvnews.com. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  3. "Bangladesh people to get direct TV signal". The Financial Express. Dhaka. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  4. "Beximco unveils RealVU logo". The Independent. Dhaka. 10 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
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