Jadeworld (翡翠互動電視)
Jadeworld 翡翠互動電視
Launched	13 August 1998
Owned by	TVB Australia, under TVB
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Country	Australia
Broadcast area	Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & Perth
Website	tvb.com.au www.jworldtv.com.au

Jadeworld is a broadcasting station based in Sydney, Australia that caters for the Chinese community in Australia. It currently consists of 14 channels, with many programs relayed from TVB operations in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

[edit] Current channel line-up

Channel Number	Channel	Genre	Language(s)
1	TVBJ	Variety	Cantonese
2	Celestial Movies	Movies	Cantonese/Mandarin
3	Dragon TV	Mainland programs	Mandarin
4	TVB8	Lifestyle	Mandarin
5	TVB Xing He	Dramas	Cantonese/Mandarin
6	TVBS-Asia	Lifestyle	Mandarin
7	TVBS-NEWS	Taiwanese News	Mandarin
8	CCTV-4	Mainland programs	Mandarin
9	Hunan TV	Mainland programs	Mandarin
10	Chongqing TV	Mainland programs	Mandarin
11	TVBN	Hong Kong news	Cantonese
12	TVB Lifestyle (replaces TVB Korean on 1 Jan 2009)	Lifestyle programs	Cantonese/Mandarin
13	Phoenix TV	Mainland programs	Mandarin
14	Phoenix Infonews	Mainland programs	Mandarin

[edit] History

Jadeworld began as JEDi (Jade Entertainment Digital Interactive) in 2000, broadcasting only 7 channels-

Channel Number	Channel	Language(s)
1	TVBJ	Cantonese
2	Movie Channel	Cantonese/Mandarin
4	TVB8	Cantonese/Mandarin
5	TVB Xing He (dramas)	Cantonese/Mandarin
6	TVBS-Asia	Mandarin
7	TVBS-N	Mandarin
9	CNBC Asia	English

CCTV-4 was added in 2000, while CNBC Asia was taken off the channels in 2001.
JET-TV was offered to certain plan subscribers from until 2005.
The addition of Dragon TV, Hunan TV, Chonqing TV and Phoenix TV in 2006-07 caters for subscribers of Mainland descent.

Jadeworld offered an IPPV service to subscribers after a software upgrade in 2001. Movies from Hong Kong were streamed in a box-office style interface in a timetabled fashion daily. Each movie cost A$9.90.
The variety of movies offered by the IPPV system were limited, and unpopularity with the subscribers led to it being shut down a few months later.