All Entries Tagged With: "Cable TV"
DTH and digital cable will co-exist
Most viewers seem to be preferring direct-to-home (DTH) to view television. However, cable (digital) will still be an important broadcast mode. This observation has been made by a FICCI-KPMG report on media and entertainment. The number of DTH households in the country is set to go up from 37 million in 2011 to 86 million by 2016. Digital cable, on the other hand, would see its subscriber base explode from 6 million to 75 million over the same period. Not surprisingly, analog cable, which connects most households currently, would shrink from 68 million in 2011 to just 4 million by 2016. A major »»»
HD viewers may soon see the end of advertisement-free viewing
Television audiences in India may soon find themselves at the receiving end of the battle brewing between broadcasters and advertisers over selling inventory on the high-definition (HD) feeds of their existing channels, bringing to an end the almost ad-free viewing experience they currently enjoy. The fracas between broadcasters asking to be paid separately for the HD feeds and advertisers who are reluctant to do so has escalated with the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) writing to its members not to agree to the demands of broadcasters. Broadcasters are to soon begin showing commercials on »»»
WWIL to offer highest number of Channels on Cable TV
Noida, April 02, 2012: Wire and Wireless (India) Ltd. (WWIL), the leading cable television service provider in India will be offering highest number of channels in the first phase of digitization in its three lucrative markets of Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai, under SITI Cable brand name. SITI Cable is on the forefront to provide advanced IP based digital delivery platform that will transmit superior quality TV signal to subscribers. It will also delight subscribers by offering 400 SD channels having better quality picture and audio compare to analogue cable TV. Further it will offer 30 HD Channels »»»
Govt & Trai should act on time if digitisation deadline is to be met: Stakeholders
NEW DELHI: Participants at a one-day meet to discuss the march towards digitisation agreed that there would be no difficulty in meeting the deadlines if the government and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) complete their tasks in time. However, some of the members speaking in different sessions of the Casbaa meet ‘Beyond digital’ did not rule out the possibility of digitisation getting entangled in litigation if adequate steps were not taken till May, since the deadline is 30 June for the first phase covering the four metros. Some of the other speakers were also anguished »»»
No relaxation in sunset date for first phase of digitisation: Govt
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Secretary Uday Kumar Varma, while reiterating that the sunset dates of the first phase for the metros of 30 June was irrevocable, said today that the regulatory framework including interconnection issues and tariff for cable digitisation would be in place by the end of this month. Varma said that one million digital set top boxes had already been installed while another 2.5 million were readily available and the process of acquiring the remaining seven million required for the first phase had been put in place with directions issued for importing them. Earlier »»»
Cable operators distort signals using jammers, DTH companies cry foul
New Delhi: Rivalry between cable operators and DTH companies has come to the fore with growing instances of DTH jammers being used in parts of Mumbai and Delhi NCR to distort DTH signals. DTH firms like Tata Sky, Dish TV, Reliance Big TV, Videocon D2H and Airtel Digital TV have detected fresh cases of DTH jammers causing disruption of services in Mumbai. The DTH Operators Association of India (DOAOI), which represents all DTH companies, has described the use of jammers as a threat to the national spectrum. In a strong worded letter sent to the department of telecommunications (DoT), Mumbai Police, »»»
Indian DTH players focus on market share as digitisation approaches
Kolkata, March 19: As the June 30 deadline for digitisation in the four metros approaches, DTH players like Dish TV and Tata Sky are going into overdrive. If Tata Sky is going for value additions to grab a larger slice of the Rs 22,500-cable sector market (analogue +digital), then Dish TV has begun fishing in multiple service operators’ territory. Dish TV, which already has 12.5 million subscribers, will now partner the cable operators to gain a foothold in localities that were designated to them during the analogue days. The local operator will sell connections (DTH) and also be responsible »»»
