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Cable operators chafe at mandatory digitization
INDORE: At a time when cable operators in the state are working hard to woo their subscribers to shell out more under the new tax regime, another issue has started haunting them. A recent amendment to the Section 4A of the Cable Regulation Act, 1995 legalizes an ordinance issued in October this year for implementing mandatory addressable digitization (MAD) throughout the country in phased manner beginning from June 30 this year. Simply put, digitization means they will have to make heavy investment in buying equipment to switch to new technology. By rough estimates, there are nearly 5,000 cable »»»
Dish TV ties up with neighbourhood operators to push own set-top boxes & install connections
NEW DELHI: Stiff challenge from digital cable operators has forced India’s biggest direct to home (DTH) television company, Dish TV, to tie up with neighbourhood cable operators, opening up a new front in the war between the DTH and cable industries. India’s top four metros-Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata-will replace all analog television networks with digital transmission from July 1, 2012. This has led to a scramble between multi system operators (companies which create and distribute a bouquet of channels through cable networks) and DTH operators who transmit their own bouquet »»»
Are You Still Watching TV On Analog Cable?
Friday, March 02, 2012: The recent amendment to Section 4A of the Cable Regulation Act, 1995, legalizes an ordinance issued in October this year for implementing mandatory addressable digitization (MAD) throughout the country in phases starting June 30, 2012. The bill mandates complete digitization in the four metros of Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai by June 30, 2012. Digitization means that there will not be any analog signals as these signals will be switched off after the cut off date. The local cable operator will not be able to beam any analog signals. The TV will be completely blacked »»»
Set-top box mandatory for all beginning July 1st?
Cable TV users in Chennai will have to buy a set top box before July 1, when all cable operators will switch to providing signals only in digital mode. This has been directed by the Union information and broadcasting ministry. Some 20 lakh households in the city with non-DTH connections will have to go for set-top boxes to continue watching their favorite television channels. “All households in Chennai which are using the conditional access system (CAS) will have to buy new set-top box from the cable operators. Currently only 2.5 lakh have set-top boxes, while over 20 lakh homes have direct connections »»»
Cable operators facing set-top box shortage as digitisation deadline approaches near
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Five months before time runs out for homes across India’s top four metros to switch to digital transmission to continue watching cable television, operators are battling short supply of set-top boxes as well as ignorance among consumers. More than 60,000 set-top boxes need to be installed every day to enable an estimated 10 million homes across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata to meet the deadline mandated by the government. But with India going digital at the same time as Brazil, Russia, China and South Korea, among other countries, set-top box makers are finding it difficult »»»
Is this the end of cable mafia?
Since the cable TV industry’s stunningly chaotic beginning in India in the mid-90s, those in this vast and unregulated trade have had a free run. In the absence of government regulation and its accessory, red-tape — the Indian cable industry has managed to climb to number three position in the world. But the coming summer, things are in for a shake-up. The centre has approved the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2011, which proposes to make it mandatory for every household in the metro cities (in phase one) — Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and Kolkata — to have a set-top »»»
Hathway Cable plans to invest Rs 1.75 bn in first phase of digitisation
MUMBAI: India’s leading multi-system operator (MSO) Hathway Cable & Datacom plans to invest Rs 1.75 billion in the first phase of digitisation even as it expects DTH to take away 10-15 per cent of its cable TV subscribers in the two lucrative markets of Delhi and Mumbai. Hathway has ordered 1.3 million digital set-top boxes (STBs) and signed a letter of intent for another 0.5 million STBs. “We estimate our subscriber universe to be 1.5 million (including 2nd TV) in Mumbai and Delhi. About 20 per cent of this will be second TV sets. We have a presence in Kolkata through our joint »»»
