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Mega TV and Kairali TV removed from DD Direct Plus platform
DD Direct Plus removed two channels (Mega TV and Kairali TV) from its platform. Now Mega TV is replaced with Test 410 and it is showing DD National channel. Kairali TV is replaced with Test 502 and it is showing color bars. For latest discussions related to DD Direct Plus, please check our forum from the below link. http://indiandth.in/Forum-DD-Direct ...
Exclusive review of DD Direct+ by IndianDTH
DD Direct+ is the India’s one and one only free DTH service from the public service broadcaster Doordarshan launched in 2004. Here we review the service and what it offers to a viewer. Hardware: The hardware like dish, antenna, assembly and set-top box is for the user to choose as per his budget. There are no appointed dealers or own branded set-top boxes. Any FTA satellite receiver with atleast MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 DVB-S standard will work fine. Cost: The total one-time cost of installing DD Direct+ DTH may vary from Rs.500 to Rs.3000 and installation charges if installed by a technician. There »»»
Indian DTH subscriber base crosses 41 Million
NEW DELHI: Pay direct-to-home (DTH) television platforms have a registered subscriber base of 41,044,463 as in September this year, showing a steady increase over the past four years. The registered subscriber base for pay DTH was 11,104,997 in December 2008, 19,148,848 in December 2009 and 32,054,073 in December 2010. There is no record of subscribers to the free-to-air Doordarshan’s DTH platform DD Direct Plus since it entails a one-time expenditure of purchase of dish antennae and there is no subscription base. Meanwhile, Information and Broadcasting Ministry sources said that no policy »»»
Digital Cable TV Versus DTH: Which One To Go For & Why?
Till now it has been a no-brainer what you need to have for home entertainment. On the one hand, there is the Direct-to-home (DTH) service ensuring sharp picture and voice quality, giving you the power to choose the channels you want and even offering interactive elements such as video-on-demand and gaming. On the other hand, you have the analogue cable television with poor reception and a whole bundle of channels you never want but have to pay for. Indeed, there is another technology called IPTV where your broadband Internet service provider allows you to access television channels. But then, »»»
DD responds to Mail Today report, defends its DTH ‘decision’
Prasar Bharati (PB) has clarified that the Mail Today story – ‘Scam stink as DD to hire DTH it could have bought’ published on Monday – was “factually incorrect, conjectural, malicious and defamatory”. PB board officer on special duty (OSD), Dhiranjan Malvey said in his written rebuttal that the broadcaster decided to hire facilities for increasing the capacity of Doordarshan’s DTH platform to 150 channels as it would not be possible to procure equipment and make it functional within a time-frame. The PB official said under the 11th five-year plan, the »»»
Scam hits Doordarshan’s direct-to-home service expansion plan
After the disgraceful exit of former Prasar Bharati CEO B. S. Lalli over hiring of equipment during the Commonwealth Games (CWG), another outsourcing scam appears to be brewing in the corridors of Mandi House. The Prasar Bharati board, under its officiating CEO Rajiv Takru, has allegedly pushed through a proposal that violates a decision of the Union cabinet on the expansion plan for Doordarshan’s direct-to-home (DTH) service. The 11-member Prasar Bharati board gave a go-ahead to the proposal on May 13 this year to outsource the entire operation to private players despite the government allocating »»»
CBI looks into spectrum to Telecom companies in DTH business
Widening its probe in the 2G scam, the CBI has now turned to investigate spectrum allocation made to direct-to-home (DTH) broadcasters by seeking details of sanction of bandwidth. The decision to probe the DTH broadcasters was taken after agency sleuths found that some of the telecom companies, under probe in the 2G scam, were also broadcasters of the service, official sources said on Sunday. The CBI had sought details including the original files containing applications for assigning of spectrum and wireless operating licence for DTH services. The files pertained to Dish TV India Limited, Reliance »»»
