Jadeworld (Australia)

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, Adelaide and 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.

Jadeworld began as JEDi (Jade Entertainment Digital Interactive) in 2000, broadcasting only 8 channels-

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.

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