Movistar Imagenio is an IPTV

IPTV

Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...

 television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 service provided in Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 operated by Telefonica

Telefónica

Telefónica, S.A. is a Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider in Europe and Latin America. Operating globally, it is the third largest provider in the world...

. The service was started as a commercial pilot test in the city of Alicante

Alicante

Alicante or Alacant is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of Alacantí, in the south of the Valencian Community. It is also a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city of Alicante proper was 334,418, estimated , ranking as the second-largest...

 on 2002 and later extended to some major cities like Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

 and Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 on April 2004.

As of March 2006 the coverage doesn't include all of Spain. Major cities and province capitals are covered, but not rural areas or minor cities. It is possible to check on-line if the service is available for your phone line on the Imagenio Home Page .

The channel line-up includues some international English language channels, such as CNN International

CNN International

CNN International is an international English language television network that carries news, current affairs, politics, opinions, and business programming worldwide. CNN is one of the world's largest news organizations. It is owned by Time Warner, and is affiliated with CNN, which is mainly...

 and BBC World News. Additionally for certain channels, Imagenio allows the viewer to switch instantly from the dubbed Spanish versions of foreign-made programs to the original language version. This facility is available for many digital channels such as TCM, Calle 13, Fox and Disney but not for national terrestrial/digital channels such as TVE, Antena3 or Telecinco.

Technology

Movistar Imagenio platform is powered by Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications corporation, headquartered in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It provides telecommunications solutions to service providers, enterprises, and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data, and video services...

 (formerly Lucent Technologies

Lucent Technologies

Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc., originally Lucent Technologies, Inc. is a French-owned technology company composed of what was formerly AT&T Technologies, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs...

) since 2006. Previously, Imagenio platform was an in-house development held by Telefónica I+D (the R&D branch of Telefónica). In 2006, César Alierta

César Alierta

César Alierta Izuel has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Telefónica S.A. since July 26, 2000 where he guided the company through a significant Latin American expansion. Mr. Alierta earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Law at the Universidad de Zaragoza in 1967...

 (CEO of Telefónica

Telefónica

Telefónica, S.A. is a Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider in Europe and Latin America. Operating globally, it is the third largest provider in the world...

) signed an agreement with Patricia Russo

Patricia Russo

Patricia F. Russo is an American businessperson most widely known for having served as chief executive officer of Lucent Technologies and its successor, Alcatel-Lucent, a large communications equipment manufacturer. She currently serves on the board of directors of HP, General Motors, Merck & Co....

 (CEO of Lucent Technologies

Lucent Technologies

Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc., originally Lucent Technologies, Inc. is a French-owned technology company composed of what was formerly AT&T Technologies, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs...

 at that time) for the Imagenio base-technology transfer.

Since November 2007, the television service Imagenio incorporate new features that allow the customer to have a truly TV 'a la carte': the services "Past TV," "Shift TV," "Rewind TV" and "Recorder Staff. " These services are made possible by a HD TV (High Definition Television) decoder with a hard drive of 160 GB, similar to TiVo

TiVo

TiVo is a digital video recorder developed and marketed by TiVo, Inc. and introduced in 1999. TiVo provides an on-screen guide of scheduled broadcast programming television programs, whose features include "Season Pass" schedules which record every new episode of a series, and "WishList"...

.

"Past TV" is an exclusive service of Imagenio, pioneer and unique in the world, which makes it possible to access content broadcasted up to seven days before, has been officially recorded by Imagenio without the client should do anything . "Shift TV," is an option that allows users to stop live broadcast of any program from any channel, and then continue seeing; The service "Rewind TV," allows instant repeat of last minute broadcast of the channel that was being for, for example, be able to follow since the beginning.

Lastly, the Recorder staff "offers the possibility to record contents of any channel at the push of a button.

Nationals

• 1 - TVE1
• 2 - TVE2
• 3 - Antena 3
  Antena 3 (Spain)
  Antena 3 is a Spanish terrestrial television channel owned by Antena 3 de Televisión. Some of the more popular programmes broadcast by Antena 3 include Aquí no hay quien viva, El Barco, Los Protegidos, Los Simpson and El Internado....
  
  
• 4 - Cuatro
  Cuatro TV
  Cuatro is a Spanish commercial television channel, on air since November 2005. Owned by Mediaset España Comunicación, it is broadcast on the TV frequencies licensed to the previous owner Sogecable in 1990 and previously used by them for the analogue transmission of its pay-per-view channel...
  
  
• 5 - Telecinco
  Telecinco
  Telecinco is a Spanish commercial television channel operated by Mediaset España. Launched in 1990 as Tele 5, it was the fifth of the national terrestrial television channels. In 1997, Tele 5 was rebranded as Telecinco, dropping the flower logo seen in other Mediaset channel...
  
  
• 6 - La Sexta
  La Sexta
  laSexta is the sixth nationwide broadcast television station in Spain. It is privately owned and began broadcasting in 2006.-Programming:....
  
  
• 7 - Authonomic Channel 1
• 8 - Authonomic Channel 2
• 9 - Authonomic Channel 3
• 10 - Intereconomía
• 11 - Tae Espanol filipino

Entertainment

• 20 - Fox
  Fox Broadcasting Company
  Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
  
  
• 21 - Calle 13
• 22 - AXN
  AXN
  AXN is a Pay television, cable and satellite television channel owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which was first launched on May 22, 1997. The network is now spread across several regions in the world, including Japan, Europe, other parts of Asia and Latin America...
  
  
• 23 - Cosmopolitan
  Cosmopolitan Productions
  Cosmopolitan Productions, also often referred to as Cosmopolitan Pictures, was an American film company based in New York City from 1918 to 1923 and Hollywood until 1938.- History :...
  
  
• 24 - People&Arts
• 25 - Paramount Comedy
  Paramount Comedy
  Paramount Comedy is a 24-hour Spanish cable television and satellite television comedy channel available in Spain. It is owned by MTV Networks Europe and Viacom. In other parts of the world, such as the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Italy, the channel is known as Comedy Central...
  
  
• 26 - Animax
  Animax
  is a Japanese anime satellite television network, dedicated to broadcasting anime programming. A subsidiary of Japanese media conglomerate Sony, it is headquartered in in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with its co-founders and shareholders including Sony Pictures Entertainment and the noted anime studios...
  
  
• 27 - Sci Fi
• 30 - Buzz
  Buzz
  -People:*Buzz Aldrin , American pilot and astronaut, second person to set foot on the Moon*George Beurling , Canadian World War II fighter pilot*Buzz Hargrove , National President of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union...
  
  
• 31 - FDF Telecinco
  FDF Telecinco
  FactoríaDeFicción is a Spanish television channel operated by Gestevisión Telecinco. The channel runs 24 hours a day in the Spanish language. The service airs fictional series from Telecinco and many films...
  
  
• 32 - Sony Entertainment Television

Movies

• 40 - Canal Hollywood
  Canal Hollywood
  Canal Hollywood is a movies cable channel available in Spain and Portugal.Owned by Dreamia , Canal Hollywood was founded in 1995, and was one of the first Iberian cable channels ever. It presents movies by all of the major studios.In 2011 was created a version in HD in both countries.- External...
  
  
• 41 - TCM
  TCM
  -Arts and sciences:* Trinity College of Music, a leading music conservatory, based in Greenwich, London, United Kingdom* Theory of Condensed Matter group, a theoretical physics research group in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge...
  
   (movie pack)
• 42 - Extreme teuve (movie pack)
• 43 - MGM (movie pack)
• 44 - Somos teuve (movie pack)
• 45 - Cinematk teuve (movie pack)

Kids

• 50 - Disney Channel
  Disney Channel
  Disney 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...
  
  
• 52 - Cartoon Network
  Cartoon Network
  Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
  
  
• 53 - Nickelodeon
  Nickelodeon (TV channel)
  Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
  
  
• 54 - Disney XD
  Disney XD
  Disney XD is a brand of children's TV channels worldwide targeting young males, owned by The Walt Disney Company. The channel was formerly known as Toon Disney and/or Jetix in most areas. According to Gary Marsh, President of Entertainment for Disney Channel Worldwide, "XD" does not "stand for...
  
  
• 55 - Toon Disney
  Toon Disney
  Toon Disney was an American cable television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company. A spinoff of Disney Channel, it mostly aired children's animated series and some live action programming. Its format had similarities to those of Cartoon Network and Nicktoons...
  
  
• 56 - Playhouse Disney
  Playhouse Disney
  Playhouse Disney was Disney Channel's television block for programs aimed at entertaining preschool aged children, often airing as its own channel outside the United States. It was introduced in 1997 after Disney Channel's move to basic cable from premium cable, with a target audience of children...
  
  
• 57 - Clan TVE
  Clan TVE
  Clan TVE is a children's TV channel from the Spanish public service broadcaster TVE. Until 1 January 2007 it had time-shared with TVE 50 Años which has since closed. The service now broadcasts 24 hours a day. The channel is available free on digital terrestrial television and on Digital+...
  
  

Documentaries

• 68 - Decasa
• 69 - Canal Cocina
• 70 - VIAJAR
  Viajar
  Viajar is a travel channel in Spain that is available on the Canal+ platform and some cable providers. It is owned by Fox since October 2011.-External links:*...
  
  
• 71 - National Geographic Channel
  National Geographic Channel
  National 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...
  
   (documentary pack)
• 72 - The History Channel
  The History Channel
  History, formerly known as The History Channel, is an American-based international satellite and cable TV channel that broadcasts a variety of reality shows and documentary programs including those of fictional and non-fictional historical content, together with speculation about the future.-...
  
  
• 73 - Odisea
  Odisea
  Odisea or Odisseia is a documentary cable channel available in Spain and Portugal.Owned by Multicanal , Odisea was founded in 1996, and was one of the first ever Iberian cable channels. It presents various documentaries by BBC and Granada.Recently, Odisseia and its competitor Documania merged...
  
  
• 74 - Discovery Channel
  Discovery Channel
  Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
  
  
• 75 - The Biography Channel
  The Biography Channel
  The Biography Channel is an American digital cable television channel owned by A&E and based on the television series of the same name. A version of the channel also airs on ONO and Telefónica in Spain and on Sky Digital and cable television in the United Kingdom, a version of the channel also...
  
  
• 76 - Discovery Science
  Discovery Science
  Discovery science is a scientific methodology which emphasizes analysis of large volumes of experimental data with the goal of finding new patterns or correlations, leading to hypothesis formation and other scientific methodologies.Discovery-based methodologies are often viewed in contrast to...
  
   (documentary pack)
• 77 - Discovery Civilization(documentary pack)
• 78 - Discovery Turbo
  Discovery Turbo
  Discovery Turbo can mean:*Discovery Turbo , a UK television channel, which replaced Discovery Wings in March 2007*Discovery Turbo , an Asian television channel, which replaced Discovery Real Time in October 2008...
  
   (documentary pack)
• 81 - Andalucía Turismo

Sports

• 90 - Eurosport
  Eurosport
  Eurosport is a pan-European television sport network operated by French broadcaster TF1 Group. The network of channels are available in 59 countries, in 20 different languages providing viewers with European and international sporting events...
  
  
• 91 - Eurosport 2
  Eurosport 2
  Eurosport 2 is a European sports television network. It is a sister channel to Eurosport and Eurosport News. Several different versions of the channel exist across Europe, where television rights for sport differ.-Launch:...
  
  
• 92 - Sportmanía
• 93 - ESPN Classic
  ESPN Classic
  ESPN Classic is a sports channel that features reruns of famous sporting events, sports documentaries, and sports themed movies. Such programs includes biographies of famous sports figures or a rerun of a famous World Series or Super Bowl, often with added commentary on the event...
  
   (sports pack)
• 94 - Real Madrid TV
  Real Madrid TV
  Real Madrid TV is an encrypted Digital television channel, operated by Real Madrid specialising in the Spanish football team. The channel is available in Spanish and English...
  
  
• 95 - Barça TV (selected channel)
• 96 - Telecinco Sport
  Telecinco Sport
  Telecinco Sport was a Spanish sport channel available on TDT, and owned by Gestevisión Telecinco.On 18 February 2008, the channel was closed, and the frequency was given to Telecinco 2.- Programming :...
  
  
• 97 - Teledeporte
  Teledeporte
  Teledeporte is a Spanish sports channel owned by TVE, launched in 1994 through Hispasat. It was the second sports channel to launch in Spain, after Eurosport and before Sportmanía or Canal+ Deporte. It broadcast the main Spanish and international sports events...
  
  
• 102 - Extreme Sports Channel
  Extreme Sports Channel
  The Extreme Sports Channel is a Netherlands-based extreme sports television channel available across Europe and the Middle East. Al Gosling had the idea for the channel in 1998.-History:...
  
   (selected channel)
• 103 - Sailing Channel (sports pack)

Music

• 110 - 40 Latino
• 111 - Sol Música
• 112 - 40 TV
  40 TV
  40 TV is a television channel in Spain. The channel specialises in music and broadcasts music videos throughout the day. The channel is available 24 hours a day through Digital+ and some cable providers.-External links:**...
  
  
• 113 - MTV España
• 114 - VH1
  VH1
  VH1 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...
  
  
• 115 - VH1 Classics (music pack)
• 116 - Trace TV
  Trace TV
  Trace Urban is a French music video television network devoted to play urban contemporary music videos, founded by the French businessmen Olivier Laouchez and Claude Grunitzky....
  
   (music pack)
• 117 - MTV2
  MTV2
  MTV2 is a cable network that is widely available in the United States on digital cable and satellite television, and is progressively being added to analogue cable lineups across the nation...
  
   (music pack)
• 118 - MTV Base
  MTV Base
  MTV Base is a 24-hour music and general entertainment channel from MTV Networks International. The channel focuses primarily on music from the world of R'n'B, hiphop, reggae, soul and urban. The MTV Base brand first launched in the United Kingdom and in the Republic of Ireland on July 1, 1999,...
  
   (music pack)
• 119 - MTV Hits
  MTV Hits
  MTV Hits is an American music video channel that debuted on May 1, 2002. The format of the network resembles that of the classic MTV before the additional of other programming to that network in the 1990s and their slow decline of music video programming...
  
   (music pack)
• 120 - Fly Music
  Fly Music
  Fly Music was a television channel broadcast in Spain. The channel broadcast a range of music videos and profiles of alternative artists , throughout the day during named strands. Examples of these strands included Fly Box, Fly Top and D-Club...
  
  
• 121 - La Sexta 2
• 123 - Unitel Classica (selected channel)

News

• 130 - Bloomberg Television
  Bloomberg Television
  Bloomberg Television is a 24-hour global network broadcasting business and financial news. It is distributed globally, reaching over 200 million homes worldwide. It is owned and operated by Bloomberg L.P...
  
  
• 131 - Intereconomía TV
  Intereconomía TV
  Intereconomía TV is a Spanish television network centered around political and economical news. However, in 2010, Intereconomía TV has renewed its content and is now a national television channel; because of this, in 2010 Intereconomía Corporation has created Intereconomía Business, a channel...
  
  
• 132 - Euronews
  EuroNews
  Euronews is an international multilingual news television channel.It covers world news from what it claims to be a 'European' perspective.Criticisms are that the perspective is in fact that of the European Commission - a major and growing funder of Euronews....
  
  
• 133 - CNN+
  CNN+
  CNN+ was a Spanish 24-hour television news channel. Launched in 1999 as a joint venture by Sogecable and by Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner that owns CNN; it went off the air at the end of ....
  
  
• 134 - BBC World
  BBC World
  BBC World News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel. It has the largest audience of any BBC channel in the world...
  
  
• 135 - Fox News (international news pack)
• 136 - Al Jazeera English (international news pack)
• 137 - France 24
  France 24
  France 24 is an international news and current affairs television channel. The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to BBC World News, DW-TV, NHK World and RT, and broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world. During 2010 the channel started broadcasting through...
  
   (international news pack)
• 138 - Russia Today
  Russia Today
  Russia Today may refer to:* Russia Today, an English language 24-hour television news channel from Russia. It was launched in 2005 and is not related to an online news service of the similar name operated by EIN News...
  
   (international news pack)
• 139 - CNBC
  CNBC
  CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...
  
   (international news pack)
• 150 - TV5MONDE
  TV5MONDE
  TV5MONDE is a global television network, broadcasting several channels of French language programming. It is an approved participant member of the European Broadcasting Union.-History:...
  
  
• 152 - CNN International
  CNN International
  CNN International is an international English language television network that carries news, current affairs, politics, opinions, and business programming worldwide. CNN is one of the world's largest news organizations. It is owned by Time Warner, and is affiliated with CNN, which is mainly...
  
  
• 153 - Canal 24 Horas
  Canal 24 Horas
  Canal 24 Horas is TVE's 24-hour news channel. Having launched on Monday, September 15, 1997, it is Spain's first news and information channel....
  
  

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Autonomous Regions' Channels

• 170 - TVG
  TVG
  Televisión de Galicia , commonly known as A Galega , is the primary television channel of Galician public broadcaster Compañía de Radio Televisión de Galicia .-History:...
  
  
• 171 - ETB SAT
  Euskal Telebista
  Euskal Irrati Telebista is the Basque Country's public broadcast service. Its main brand is Euskal Telebista ....
  
  
• 172 - Andalucía TV
• 173 - Telemadrid SAT
  Telemadrid
  Telemadrid is the first autonomous public television station of Madrid and the fifth national station, after those of Catalonia, Euskadi, Galicia and Andalusia. It is affiliated with FORTA since its inception, and it is a public channel that belongs exclusively to the autonomous government of...
  
  
• 174 - TVVi
• 175 - TV Canaria Internacional
  TV Canaria
  Televisión Canaria is an autonomous television network for the Canary Islands. Although the registered office and principal place of TV Canaria is located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife....
  
  
• 176 - TV3Cat
  Televisió de Catalunya
  Televisió de Catalunya is Catalonia's public broadcasting network, officially composed by eight channels: TV3, 33, Super3, 3/24, 3XL, Esport 3, TV3 HD and TV3CAT. K3 was replaced by Super3 in 2009 and 300 was replaced by 3XL in 2010...
  
  

External links

• Imagenio Home Page
• No oficial News Web