Defunct American direct broadcast satellite company
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PrimeStar
Industry
Direct broadcast satellite broadcasting
Founded
November 1990; 33 years ago (1990-11)
Defunct
September 30, 2000; 23 years ago (2000-09-30)
Fate
Acquired by DirecTV
Successor
DirecTV
Headquarters
Denver, Colorado
Website
Primestar.com
PrimeStar was an American direct broadcast satellite broadcasting company formed in November 1990 by seven cable television companies including Comcast Corp. and TCI Communications Corp.[1] PrimeStar was the first medium-powered DBS system in the United States but slowly declined in popularity with the arrival of DirecTV in 1994 and Dish Network in 1996.
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3 billion, and combined the two satellite services. In 1999, DirecTV acquired PrimeStar, a competitor in the satellite television industry, for $1.83 billion...
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Network uses Nagravision (2 and 3) encryption. The now-defunct VOOM and PrimeStar services both used General Instruments/Motorola equipment, and thus used...
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standard was DigiCipher 1, which was used most notably in the now-defunct PrimeStar medium-power direct broadcast satellite (DBS) system during the early...
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