Novacable

Novacable is a cable TV telecommunication company owned by Novatech (97%) and Netflix (3%), it covers Metro Manila and its surrounding citities, launched in 1994, it competes SkyCable, Cablelink, Cignal, OctaDish and GSat

History
in 1993, Gauese telecommunication company, Novatech announced to launch cable company in Philippines, Novacable was launched on 1994.

in 2007, Novacable signs deal with multiple Gauese set top box manufacturers and Nintendo to launch its digital service, due to channels limitations in Analog, however with Nintendo's deal, Nintendo 64 hardware (including port to 64DD, real cartridge support and Expansion Pak support) is intergrated to all Novacable boxes, as of now, even the newer boxes has N64 hardware intergrated, all older and newer boxes will have built-in Super Mario 64 game cart inside, even if you do not have cartridges, however you can insert game cartridges of other N64 games (such as Mario Party, Banjo-Kazooie, Rakuga Kids, Pilotwings 64 and Donkey Kong 64) as secondary game, so you can select Super Mario 64, second game or 64DD (if you have 64DD), when you go to channel 700 (all boxes) or go via menu (newer boxes), due to this, every Novacable digital boxes are also packaged with N64 controller.

in 2019, following Netflix Philippines growth, Netflix acquired 3% stake of Novacable, Philippine Goverment have agreed.

in 2019, Majority of Minus World members traveled to Philippines because SMG4/Hobo Bros belived that Novacable boxes had N64 functionality.
 * Nintendrew: in April 2019, he travelled to his friend in Philippines who have an Novacable box, reviewing N64 hardware in Novacable box, his video about Novacable box was uploaded to YouTube on June 12, 2019, making it to be viral video in Philippines, a day later after that video went viral, Nintendrew made a message about thanking Philippines to make his video viral, this video was uploaded the same day.
 * Nathaniel Bandy: on May 11, he traveled to one of an Premium 999 subscriber (which belived to live near NAIA, subscriber's real name is Daniel Bautista, according to NB's video about Novacable)'s house to review Novacable box, he tried 6 cartridges (Mario Kart 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and 4 more), it worked, his video about Novacable box was uploaded on June 2, then premiered on June 12.
 * SimpleFlips: on June 12, at 6am, he was arrived to Philippines, at same day at 9am PST, he livestreams Novacable box, first 20 minutes, he channel surfs all Novacable channels before he plays built-in Super Mario 64, his 2 shortern videos, "SimpleFlips channel surfs Novacable" (the clip of how he surfs Novacable channels) and "Novacable's Built-in Super Mario 64!" (clip of how he plays entire playthrough up to Bowser in the Sky) was uploaded on June 13, 2019, the channel surfing video was viral.

in December 17, 2019, Netflix app is intergrated to all old and new Novacable digital boxes, making this update to be last update on older boxes, according to Novacable's press release, they said "we are intergrating Netflix app to all Novacable digital boxes, to easily access Netflix's library of original content (like Klaus, 6 Underground, Crash Landing on You (new episodes every Sundays and Mondays), Lost in Space (Season 2 coming Dec 24), AJ and the Queen (coming Jan 10), Bojack Horseman (Season 6 Part B coming Jan 30), Money Heist (Part 4 coming this 2020) and True and the Rainbow Kingdom) and licenced content (like We Bare Bears, The Amazing World of Gumball, Cinderella and the Four Knights, Rainbow Ruby (coming Dec 31), Just a Stranger (coming Jan 21), Welcome to Waikiki 2, Pusong Ligaw (coming Jan 10), Elise, 100 Tula Para Kay Stella, Rick and Morty (first half of Season 4 coming Dec 22) and Friends) all on your Novacable digital boxes, via Channel 777 (older boxes) and channel 999 or menu (newer boxes), while Channel 777 is no internet-focused, so Channel 777 will give you access to Netflix even without Internet, meanwhile Channel 999 requires Internet.".

on March 14, Novacable announced all channels (analog and digital) will be temporary free starting March 15, up to April 16, 2020 and also giving free access to Netflix for one month, customers can redeem free Netflix from March 15 to April 14, its statement was "during quarantine period, Novacable is openning all channels for free, no addional fee, also giving away free Netflix for one month, from March 15 to April 14.".