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Top 5 DTH players in India making HD Entertainment Economical
NEW DELHI: When it comes to D2H services, there are numerous questions that pop up in our head that where it is the best deal, the number of channels it offers, is it HD pack or not and much more. Since there are many players, it is essential for you to know what the best plan that is being offered is.
Multiple DTH players create competition in the industry thus an effort to give us the best. Here’s a list of top five DTH service providers in India who are making entertainment easily and economically accessible to all. This may help you choose the best one that suits your needs.
Reliance Big TV
Reliance Big TV recently announced its latest offer for availing free entertainment to 130 crores Indians. The company recently offered access to up to 500 free-to-air channels for five years and pay channels for one year across the country, besides a free of cost HD HEVC set-top box.
To avail of the Reliance Big TV set-top box at effectively zero cost, you need to book the DTH from the company’s official portal by paying a booking amount of Rs 499. While a pre-booking amount is Rs. 499 will be charged by the company, on the receipt of set-top box and outdoor unit (ODU), buyers will have to pay the balance amount of Rs. 1,500. Thereafter, subscribers need to recharge monthly amount of Rs. 300 from second year onwards for all pay channels. On completion of subscription of pay channels continuously for next two years with Reliance Big TV, the subscribers will get back Rs. 1,999 as a loyalty (the amounts paid during booking and receipt of the set-top box) in form of recharge. A customer should be active at the end of 3 years in order to avail the offer.
Airtel Digital TV
Airtel digital TV is an Indian direct-broadcast satellite service provider launched by Bharti Airtel in 2008. Today Airtel has nearly 400 channels including several HD or High Definition channels. Its subscriber base is a few million across India and has a wide variety of channels covering entertainment, movies, lifestyle, education, lifestyle, sports and news to name a few categories. Airtel also has plenty of regional language channels in all of these categories. Airtel had also announced that its digital TV HD and HD-DVR boxes are software-enabled to view standard definition (SD) content up-scaled to 1080i HD. In, addition Airtel allows its customers to record programs, and also get multiple connections through one dish. This multiple connection facility being offered is particularly beneficial when entire buildings or housing complexes subscribe to the same provider and get great discounts and customized packages.
Tata Sky
Tata Sky provides Pay TV and OTT services. With the objective of connecting to the best content in the world on any budget, any screen, anytime and anywhere. Tata Sky was the first to launch multiple products and services that redefined the subscribers viewing experience in the country. Tata Sky provides the most comprehensive channels and platform services line-up ranging from movies, news, entertainment and sports channels. The Tata Sky Mobile App enables subscribers to experience Live TV along with services such as On-Demand with over 3000 titles, Remote Record to set the recording on the STB even when not at home or near the STB and Transfer to download and view content recorded from the STB. Tata Sky has been a pioneer in the HD Set-top box segment having a significant market share in the category.
Dish TV
DishTV is India’s DTH television operator using MPEG-4, DVB-S2, and MPEG-2 digital compression technology. The company is a sister concern of Zee, is one of the DTH market leader. DishTV launched the first DTH service in India on 2 October 2003. It has a huge list of channels (about 650+). Dish TV has features like child lock, interactive TV, games, apart from the expansive range of channels in English, Hindi, and regional languages. Dish TV also has attractive combo packs, special deals, and offers where customers get access to a bundle of channels at economical rates with plenty of freebies thrown in. Providing three kinds of Set Top Boxes- DISH HD+ with Recorder, Digital Set-Top-Box with Recorder, DishTV provides Hi-Definition signals for lifelike picture quality along with the power to pause, record and rewind live TV, Digital Set-Top-Box lets you record the programmes of your choice.
Videocon DTH
Videocon DTH brand has made their service unique by offering the choice of the built-in DTH device and video player with their company made digital TVs. This feature is even compatible with other independent television sets as well. Videocon d2h presents its subscribers with 650 channels and services, including 61 Asli HD Channels & services and a bouquet of regional channels. Videocon d2h has launched d2h stream Set-top Box (Connected Set-top box) which converts your existing normal TV into a Smart TV. The Connected set-top box allows one to browse content from Facebook, Twitter, Daily Motion, video on demand sites, news sites, weather sites, etc through applications residing on STB.
NEW DELHI: Nokia today announced that DISH Network has chosen Nokia’s cloud-native, standalone Core software products to help it build the most advanced, disruptive, fully-automated, cloud-native 5G network in the U.S. with high-level scale, performance, and efficiency.
The deal follows months of joint testing as Nokia and DISH proved their respective “any cloud” capabilities in multiple cloud environments, along with Nokia’s ability to integrate and deliver a fully cloud-native, containerized, end-to-end solution.
The agreement includes subscriber data management, device management, packet core, voice and data core, as well as integration services. Nokia will also deliver additional cloud-native products that will provide 4G, 5G standalone and Voice over Wi-Fi access to core network functions.
These products will provide DISH the speed, agility, intelligence, and security to deliver new 5G-era services, while cost-effectively managing its network with near zero-touch automation and adherence to Service Level Agreements.
Nokia leads the market in core network deployments, with 25 of the top 40 communication service providers relying on Nokia Core network products.
Marc Rouanne, DISH Chief Network Officer, said: “This is an important step in bringing to life DISH’s plans to deliver the first open, agile, virtualized 5G network in the U.S. Nokia’s new release is cloud-native, standalone and ready for full automation, providing DISH the software capabilities required to deliver thousands of network slices with low latency and SLA on demand.”
Bhaskar Gorti, President of Nokia Software and Nokia Chief Digital Officer, said: “The benefits of Nokia’s industry-leading, cloud-native standalone 5G Core products built on our proven Common Software Foundation — near-zero-touch automation capabilities, high-level operational efficiencies, scale and performance – continue to set us apart from the competition. DISH has great ambition and we are both excited and laser-focused on helping them deliver on that.”
NEW DELHI: To change entertainment forever, Airtel today announced the launch of its new Airtel Xstream Bundle.
The Airtel Xstream Bundle combines the power of Airtel Xstream Fiber with speeds upto 1 Gbps, Unlimited Data, the first of its kind Airtel Xstream Android 4K TV Box and access to all OTT content. Entertainment in India will no longer be the same.
Unlimited Entertainment
• All Airtel Xstream Fiber plans now include the Airtel Xstream Box worth Rs 3999 that makes any TV a smart TV. Customers get access to all LIVE TV channels plus the best of video streaming apps effectively eliminating the need for multiple entertainment devices at home. This Android 9.0 powered smart box comes with an intelligent remote supported by Google Assistant voice search, access to thousands of apps on Playstore and also offers online gaming.
• Airtel Xstream Android 4K TV Box offers 550 TV channels and OTT content from the Airtel Xstream app that includes over 10,000 movies & shows aggregated across 7 OTT apps and 5 studios into one seamless experience.
• What is more, The Airtel Xstream bundle offers complimentary access to premier video streaming apps such as Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video and ZEE5, all accessible through the Airtel Xstream Box.
Unlimited Data to binge on Unlimited Entertainment
• All Airtel Xstream Fiber plans now come with Unlimited Data allowances. Customers no longer have to worry about running out of their data allowances, while bingeing on high quality digital content over the Airtel Xstream Box.
• To drive penetration of home broadband in India Airtel is today making broadband even more affordable. X stream Fiber plans will now start at just Rs 499 and will come with the proven network reliability, trust and superior customer support from Airtel.
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NEW DELHI: In a big move which furthers the Make in India ambition, Tata Sky, India’s Pay TV platform with most subscribers, has decided to shift a significant portion of its Set-top box sourcing to within the country.
The leading DTH player has partnered with Technicolor to develop Set-Top Boxes for the Indian market that will be manufactured and distributed within India.
On this occasion, Harit Nagpal, MD & CEO of Tata Sky said, “As the world adjusts to the rapid changes emerging due to the recent effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tata Sky and Technicolor Connected Home are realigning production of a group of set-top boxes (STBs) to India by early 2021.”
The shift in production and supply chain operations, according to the two companies, will streamline the manufacture and delivery of STBs to consumers in India, and further strengthen the longstanding collaboration that has been in place between Technicolor and Tata Sky.
“Working with Tata Sky to move set-top box production to India will better serve this important market. It is yet another example of Technicolor’s best-in-class supply chain, which remains flexible and adaptable. This is especially valuable in volatile situations, such as those created by COVID-19. Our supply chain capabilities have proven to be a strategic asset as we offer multiple options to our customers. We remain committed to minimizing risk and total cost of ownership for services providers around the world,” says Luis Martinez-Amago, President of Technicolor Connected Home.
