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Tring Digital is an Albania
n digital satellite and terrestrial TV platform based in Tirana
, Albania
. The package was launched on the 16th of September 2008. Tring Digital is a Pay TV package oriented towards the family needs offering a large range of movies and blockbusters for all tastes and genres, documentaries, children’s content and live sports, all customized for the Albanian and the Balkan market. The Tring Digital platform was conceived with the strategy of being an innovator in today's “Digital Era”. Having entered a market dominated by DigitAlb, Tring Digital is aiming to gain recognition amongst Albanian viewers. To overcome this obstacle Tring Digital is improving and working on quality, marketing and service.
At first, Tring Digital existed within the same brand of Albanian Satellite Communication (ASC), a long term visionary project that aimed to offer an integrated range of services including internet, telephone and TV, all in one package.
A bold move strategically, strongly backed by the Edil Holding Group which ASC was a member of, the conception and foundation of ASC provided exactly what the Albanian customers needed – competition and diversity, since prior to this introduction, most of the above mentioned industries were vastly dominated mainly by one company.
As the company’s operations started to grow, ASC felt that it would provide better cover by focusing in each of its service range; thereby creating two sister companies in Tring TV and Tring Communications.
After having a small lift-up during the spring of 2009, the company redefined itself as Tring Digital. This rename was strongly backed by the shift of long term strategies and policies towards the forthcoming digital era, focusing mainly in guaranteeing high standards in audio and video, coverage expansion and customer satisfaction by retaining a better price versus quality rate.
Aiming sales support, at first Tring Digital focused in creating a wide distribution web that now includes more than 180 stores across Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia while also establishing reliable partnerships with some of the most successful Albanian retail chains such as Euronics, Tecom Stores, Gama Electronics, CT Computers etc. This strategy would later constitute the foundations of customer support and the start of a customer-needs evaluation process, pushing for a more customer/service oriented approach.
Adopting a long term strategic development plan, the effort to be the more familiar-oriented digital platform in Albania has not looked back ever since. Additional investments aimed at enforcing broadcasting signal and future projects will definitely put Tring Digital on the map as one of the industry’s main innovators.
Tring Digital along with Vizion Plus, brought to life two of the most successful shows of 2010 - “Dancing with the Stars”, a successful format of dancing competition licensed by the BBC, and “Apartment 2XL” an improvisational humor show, resulting in high ratings, unexpected record audience and a record number of fans on Facebook. And this is not all of it, yet!
Tring Digital have not been able to match the success that rivial company DigitALB have due to not being able to offer a range of Albanian channels and any High Definition
which DigitAlb can boast of 6 (six) HD
channels and 15 (fifteen) Albanian channels.
Radio Channels:
During the testing period, Tring conducted market research and discovered that customers desired a larger range of Albanian TV channels. In making this discovery Tring took steps to persuade the production team behind Folk+, a new Albanian folk TV channel, to transfer over to their package. Despite helping launch FOLK+ DigitAlb did not own the company or trademark and was therefore unable to retain the station. Recently Scan TV (formerly Mediasat), a popular Albanian TV channel was added to the package to help increase its offerings of Albanian content. Despite a struggle to secure space on Eutelsat W2, Tring Digital still plans to lure away customers from the competition by offering a larger amount of Albanian TV channels despite only having one Albanian channel which is not Tring branded.
Tring Digital was launched in September 2008 and is operating a digital platform in Albania by offering a dynamic “all-in-one” package for the entire family. Tring Digital brings a fresh and innovative approach to its customers by providing an excellent “value-for-money” digital package using “state of the art” Terrestrial and Satellite platforms:
The Tring Digital package is offered to the subscriber via a fully DVB compliant satellite and Combo (Satellite + Terrestrial in one) set top boxes manufactured by INTEK Digital of South Korea. INTEK Digital is fully licensed and approved to produce Conax CA embedded decoders.
The decoders, among other functionalities, offer a full MPEG-2 (MP@ML) profile, Multi-language menu, support for Teletext and DVB subtitles, easy installation and set up guide, parental lock function, Electronic Program Guide (EPG) and “Over The Air” updates of software.
Tring Digital, in collaboration with its sister company Tring Communication, a leading provider of Hi-Speed Internet and Home Phone services, is at the forefront of offering IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) services. This is Digital television delivered via a high speed Fiber Optic Next Generation Network (NGN) which currently covers the city of Tirana.
IPTV offers added value services such as Video on Demand, Time-Shift TV, “Pause and Continue” TV, Interactive Applications and Gaming. This future reach, high speed network allows Tring Digital and Tring Communications to offer a multitude of services, covering the connectivity, telephony, telecommunications and digital television needs of every subscriber.
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
n digital satellite and terrestrial TV platform based in Tirana
Tirana
Tirana is the capital and the largest city of Albania. Modern Tirana was founded as an Ottoman town in 1614 by Sulejman Bargjini, a local ruler from Mullet, although the area has been continuously inhabited since antiquity. Tirana became Albania's capital city in 1920 and has a population of over...
, Albania
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
. The package was launched on the 16th of September 2008. Tring Digital is a Pay TV package oriented towards the family needs offering a large range of movies and blockbusters for all tastes and genres, documentaries, children’s content and live sports, all customized for the Albanian and the Balkan market. The Tring Digital platform was conceived with the strategy of being an innovator in today's “Digital Era”. Having entered a market dominated by DigitAlb, Tring Digital is aiming to gain recognition amongst Albanian viewers. To overcome this obstacle Tring Digital is improving and working on quality, marketing and service.
- Tring Digital currently offers 25 Albanian and foreign TV channels in Albania and through Europe.
At first, Tring Digital existed within the same brand of Albanian Satellite Communication (ASC), a long term visionary project that aimed to offer an integrated range of services including internet, telephone and TV, all in one package.
A bold move strategically, strongly backed by the Edil Holding Group which ASC was a member of, the conception and foundation of ASC provided exactly what the Albanian customers needed – competition and diversity, since prior to this introduction, most of the above mentioned industries were vastly dominated mainly by one company.
As the company’s operations started to grow, ASC felt that it would provide better cover by focusing in each of its service range; thereby creating two sister companies in Tring TV and Tring Communications.
After having a small lift-up during the spring of 2009, the company redefined itself as Tring Digital. This rename was strongly backed by the shift of long term strategies and policies towards the forthcoming digital era, focusing mainly in guaranteeing high standards in audio and video, coverage expansion and customer satisfaction by retaining a better price versus quality rate.
Aiming sales support, at first Tring Digital focused in creating a wide distribution web that now includes more than 180 stores across Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia while also establishing reliable partnerships with some of the most successful Albanian retail chains such as Euronics, Tecom Stores, Gama Electronics, CT Computers etc. This strategy would later constitute the foundations of customer support and the start of a customer-needs evaluation process, pushing for a more customer/service oriented approach.
Adopting a long term strategic development plan, the effort to be the more familiar-oriented digital platform in Albania has not looked back ever since. Additional investments aimed at enforcing broadcasting signal and future projects will definitely put Tring Digital on the map as one of the industry’s main innovators.
Tring Digital along with Vizion Plus, brought to life two of the most successful shows of 2010 - “Dancing with the Stars”, a successful format of dancing competition licensed by the BBC, and “Apartment 2XL” an improvisational humor show, resulting in high ratings, unexpected record audience and a record number of fans on Facebook. And this is not all of it, yet!
Tring Digital have not been able to match the success that rivial company DigitALB have due to not being able to offer a range of Albanian channels and any High Definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
which DigitAlb can boast of 6 (six) HD
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
channels and 15 (fifteen) Albanian channels.
Channels
- 1. Vizion +Vizion +Vizion Plus is a satellite frequency, private television station founded in 1999 in Tirana, Albania, part of Edil-Al construction group and WAZ-Mediengruppe. Besides being found terrestrially throughout Albania, the station can be found in Europe through Tring Digital, North America on IPTV and...
- 2. Tring Super
- 3. Tring Max
- 4. Tring Comedy
- 5. Tring Life
- 6. Tring World
- 7. Tring Planet
- 8. Tring Shqip
- 9. 3Plus
- 10. Tring Sport News
- 11. Tring Tring
- 12. VH1VH1VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...
- 13. Disney ChannelDisney ChannelDisney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
- 14. Fox LifeFox LifeFox Life is a television network, launched by the Fox Broadcasting Company, which airs across Latin America, Europe and Japan . Its basic programming include numerous television series, sitcoms and movies, among others, which includes some original programming in certain regions...
- 15. Fox CrimeFox CrimeFox Crime is a television network, launched by the Fox International Channels, which airs across several countries of Europe and Asia, such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia and Bulgaria...
- 16. ERA TV
- 17. Folk +
- 18. RTV21RTV21RTV21 is a radio and TV broadcaster operating in Kosovo since 1998. The radio broadcasting started in 1998, while TV broadcasting began in 1999 after Serbian forces withdrew from Kosovo. RTV21 is the most popular channel in Kosovo. RTv21 has also other two channels 21+ and 21 Popullore...
- 19. National Geographic ChannelNational Geographic ChannelNational Geographic Channel, also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo, is a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society. Like History and the Discovery Channel, the channel features documentaries with factual...
- 20. KohavisionKohavisionKohavision is a Kosovar television broadcaster, and part of Koha group. Kohavision began broadcasting in September 2000, shortly after the Kosovo War ended...
- 21. MTVMTVMTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
- 22. Kanali 7
- 23. X-Tring
- 24. KTV
- 25. E!E!E! Entertainment Television is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by NBCUniversal. It features entertainment-related programming, reality television, feature films and occasionally series and specials unrelated to the entertainment industry.E! has an audience reach of...
- 26.tring sport2
- 27.tring sport3
- 28.tring sport4
Radio Channels:
- 1. Radio +2
- 2. Club FM
- 3. AMC Love Radio
Upcoming/former channels
In its testing period Tring Digital underwent a number of operations and changes. Initially the package started with three channels including Vizion Plus but quickly increased its number of channels to 15. Channels such as Supersonic TV, a leading music television channel owned by the recording studio of the same name, began broadcasting for a brief period on Tring. However, DigitAlb, a competitor of Tring, threatened to remove SuperSonic TV from its package if it continued to broadcast on Tring Digital. Supersonic TV disappeared from the package shortly after, leaving space for Egnatia TV (ETV) to take the slot. On November 1, 2010 SCAN TV left Tring Digital and joined rivial platform DigitALB.During the testing period, Tring conducted market research and discovered that customers desired a larger range of Albanian TV channels. In making this discovery Tring took steps to persuade the production team behind Folk+, a new Albanian folk TV channel, to transfer over to their package. Despite helping launch FOLK+ DigitAlb did not own the company or trademark and was therefore unable to retain the station. Recently Scan TV (formerly Mediasat), a popular Albanian TV channel was added to the package to help increase its offerings of Albanian content. Despite a struggle to secure space on Eutelsat W2, Tring Digital still plans to lure away customers from the competition by offering a larger amount of Albanian TV channels despite only having one Albanian channel which is not Tring branded.
Technical information
Digital broadcasting is a relatively new and improved technology that allows for a very high quality of video, audio and data transmission as per established European Standards. DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial) specifies the reception of digital signals through a simple terrestrial household antena. DVB-S (Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite), specifies the reception of digital signals through household satellite dish. Tring Digital is fully committed and adapts to these standards.Tring Digital was launched in September 2008 and is operating a digital platform in Albania by offering a dynamic “all-in-one” package for the entire family. Tring Digital brings a fresh and innovative approach to its customers by providing an excellent “value-for-money” digital package using “state of the art” Terrestrial and Satellite platforms:
- One fully redundant MPEG-2/DVB statistical multiplexer manufactured by TANDBERG (now Ericsson Television Ltd). This multiplexer is used with Eutelsat W2M (@ 16° East) satellite transponder C3 to provide a pan European North Africa and Middle East coverage for 23 Satellite DTH (Direct To Home) TV channels and for the transmission of 22 Digital Terrestrial TV channels covering the areas of Tirana Durrës and Fier. These facilities are operated by a fully trained and equipped team of engineers and technicians.
- A fully redundant Eutelsat approved and licensed teleport. This facility utilizes a 2.4 meter 13.75 to 14.5 GHz Ku-Band Earth station by Xicom Technology.
- Conax CAS7 digital encryption technology.
- A fully equipped, monitoring and control satellite and terrestrial transmission center, manned 24hours, 7 days a week
- An extensive array of satellite reception systems for reception from popular satellites with a range of feeds from the Atlantic to the Indian oceans
The Tring Digital package is offered to the subscriber via a fully DVB compliant satellite and Combo (Satellite + Terrestrial in one) set top boxes manufactured by INTEK Digital of South Korea. INTEK Digital is fully licensed and approved to produce Conax CA embedded decoders.
The decoders, among other functionalities, offer a full MPEG-2 (MP@ML) profile, Multi-language menu, support for Teletext and DVB subtitles, easy installation and set up guide, parental lock function, Electronic Program Guide (EPG) and “Over The Air” updates of software.
Tring Digital, in collaboration with its sister company Tring Communication, a leading provider of Hi-Speed Internet and Home Phone services, is at the forefront of offering IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) services. This is Digital television delivered via a high speed Fiber Optic Next Generation Network (NGN) which currently covers the city of Tirana.
IPTV offers added value services such as Video on Demand, Time-Shift TV, “Pause and Continue” TV, Interactive Applications and Gaming. This future reach, high speed network allows Tring Digital and Tring Communications to offer a multitude of services, covering the connectivity, telephony, telecommunications and digital television needs of every subscriber.