Matjaž Vidmar is a technologist and businessman. Vidmar is best known as the founder of Playout247, Vision IPTV and the Perception Group. Career In 1999, Vidmar launched Xtreme IPTV, a turn-key cloud platform for IPTV service delivery. In 2005, Vidmar founded Playout247 which rebranded later to Vision247, a London-based subsidiary company of Vision Group that provides broadcast distribution and IPTV services. Vidmar later established Xtreme, an online video platform targeting OTT distribution. In 2012, Vidmar's Vision247 acquired Fora, an IPTV vendor company based in Ljubljana, Slovenia and the owner of the telco IPTV platform Perception for a reported $2.69 million. In September 2022, Perception TVC DN signed an agreement with Africell to launch a free TV service in Angola, monetized with data revenues. In 2024, WorldConnect IPTV and JedTec formed WorldConnect Technologies, a Louisiana-based joint venture that served as the middleman Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG). TMTG acquired WorldConnect Technologies in exchange for up to 5.1 million TMTG shares for its part in brokering the acquisition of Perception Group's CDN source code which was evaluated with $17.5 million which will help distribute Truth Social content.<ref name=":2" />
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