PiTV signal gone ?

[stevesc]

Anyone watch Pitv ? Lost signal on Saturday evening, not recovered yet as of Sunday evening. Company isn't answering phone calls.

[be236]

What is PiTV? Is that a subscription service like Dish/DTV? Do they have a website you can go to for customer service, etc?

[stevesc]

Welcome to £TV


Their program include 2 SlylinkTv channels. about 5 China channels. one news channel and some minor variety channels. Their web page has not updated in years and their contact email doesn't exist last couple years.
Now the signal's gone, no phone, no email, no nothing. Good thing my contract is up this month. My neighbor just paid a 2 year subscription.

[be236]

Hmm.. their website was flooded this morning,but now it looks back up and running... What happens when you call their 800/866 number? Do you get a live person?

Do you think this PiTV went bust, but their website still remains up for a little longer?

Maybe they couldnt compete with Dish's various Chinese channels... I am just guessing.. that's ashame if they went belly-up, though.

[kilosat]

Looks like they're out of money due to fraud.

http://www.paulhastings.com/tmpdocs/...c_ID=41640.pdf

STUB SATertainment USA is the company I've been going through for billing and what have you, and according to my research, their bank accounts are frozen.

So now, we all have to get together and demand some money.

If you go here:
http://www.sccomplex.org/home/index.htm

You can search for PerdiWave or New World TMT, and get a look at the cases, but here's a PDF if you prefer (attached).

[stevesc]

Looks like 曲建平 and Prediwave is out of business. Property auctions off by bankruptcy court May 16,2007. But according to one article 香港新世界發展 invested in 9 companies headed by 曲建平. As Pitv may still be a viable company, 新世界發展 maybe the new owner of Pitv and will want to keep it alive.

Pitv's phones are now playing recorded message. "Emergy repair of the satellite in progress."

My parent like to watch the 2 politicle talk shows on Skylink, their Korean drama programing is good also. Pitv used to carry Sissy Chen's talk show but no longer. Where can I get Sissy Chen's talk show now? I need recommendation what service to get if Pitv is indeed Kaputt.t...

[be236]

Looks like 曲建平 and Prediwave is out of business. Property auctions off by bankruptcy court May 16,2007. But according to one article 香港新世界發展 invested in 9 companies headed by 曲建平. As Pitv may still be a viable company, 新世界發展 maybe the new owner of Pitv and will want to keep it alive.

Pitv's phones are now playing recorded message. "Emergy repair of the satellite in progress."

My parent like to watch the 2 politicle talk shows on Skylink, their Korean drama programing is good also. Pitv used to carry Sissy Chen's talk show but no longer. Where can I get Sissy Chen's talk show now? I need recommendation what service to get if Pitv is indeed Kaputt.t...

Dish Net has a Great Wall package with many Chinese channels... I think it's around $30 a month.. not sure how to compared with PiTV's offering or pricing... Go to Dish's website and check it out...

[be236]

Looks like they're out of money due to fraud.

http://www.paulhastings.com/tmpdocs/...c_ID=41640.pdf

STUB SATertainment USA is the company I've been going through for billing and what have you, and according to my research, their bank accounts are frozen.

So now, we all have to get together and demand some money.

If you go here:
Santa Clara County Superior Court Complex Litigation

You can search for PerdiWave or New World TMT, and get a look at the cases, but here's a PDF if you prefer (attached).

Wow.. good info... this case started in 2004, and it's just now recently in the last few days that satellite service got shutdown? Just incredible? What was really the problem to run out of business? Did they not have enough customers? Charged too low a monthly-fee? etc??

[kilosat]

Basically, Prediwave was purchased by a big company. And the big company had lots of money.

Prediwave said it was going to develop a technology for interactive satellite TV. And so Big Company invested heavily.

Prediwave told Big Company that it needed to buy a special memory chip from another company called WOW. Big Company was ok with this, believing that the chip was being purchased for a regular market price.

What really happened is the owner of Prediwave set up an account with HSBC under his brother and mom's name, for WOW. And WOW purchased the memory chips, marked the price up 20-fold, and sold them back to Prediwave. In effect, money was laundered within Prediwave, away from Big Company.

When Big Company began investigating Prediwave's spending, they found this and more, and the rest is history. Prediwave's spending accounts have been frozen, and the company's property has been auctioned off.

That's all I know so far, and there may be inaccuracies, but I think it's about right.

Oh, and Prediwave made big big payments to S.T.U.B SATertainment. I think they're basically the same company, which is why our feed is gone. Hopefully someone else will see this as a potential business and go for it.

[kilosat]

As of this morning,

http://www.pitvusa.com/

is not responding. Their mail server continues to function.