Digital Fly DTH begins test broadcasting in the Ukraine

Ukraine’s Digital Fly has begun test broadcasting of its DVB-S2 MPEG-4 digital TV service on satellite Thor 3 at 0.8°W. The commercial launch is expected to take place on November 15th this year with the full Digital Fly package consisting of 80 television channels.

To use the service, customers have to buy an expensive Digital Fly HDMAX personal video recorder (PVR). The PVR has a 500GB hard drive.