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India’s largest and fastest growing DTH operator Dish TV committed to long-time content security partner Conax
Delhi: Dish TV and content protection provider Conax further their long-term partnership. Part of Essel Group Venture, Dish TV is India’s largest and fastest growing DTH platform – experiencing exceptional growth since launch of its DTH operations in 2004. Renowned for its unique security record, content security provider Conax has provided the platform with smart cards for 7 years. To date, Dish TV has demonstrated a significant impact on the Indian market with 8.9 million Conax smart cards. Dish TV is market leader in the highly competitive Indian pay-TV market, both in size and scale »»»
DishTV ropes in Ericsson to provide better service
DishTV, India’s largest direct-to-home (DTH) television provider, Wednesday roped in Ericsson to improve its satellite bandwidth efficiency, increase channel capacity and offer more choice to subscribers. “Ericsson’s solution will help us to roll out several more channels to our subscribers and to give us capacity to offer new HD (high definition) services,” said Rajiv Khattar, president projects, DishTv. DishTv selected Ericsson’s high performance EN8100 MPEG-2 and EN8190 MPEG-4 AVC encoders, which are known for delivering greater performance and enhancing consumer experience. “The »»»
Focus 2009: DTH players seek rationalisation of taxes
The DTH (direct to home) industry is seeking tax rationalisation from the government for the industry to grow and to speed up the digitisation process. The industry captains say that the taxation on the sector in India is possibly the highest across the globe. “When the licenses were issued by the government, there was no tax and we rolled out the product at a particular price. Today, we pay service tax, entertainment tax and VAT. We haven’t passed it on to the consumers,” said Rajiv Khattar, president, projects, Dish TV. He was speaking at the session on ‘Spotlight DTH’ »»»
DTH operators feel HITS will expand the digital market
NEW DELHI: Direct-to-home operators said they did not treat the cable operator as their competitor and felt DTH was simply one other way for the country to get digitised. They were also unanimous that Headend-in-the-Sky (HITS) would not hit them adversely as that would also help expedite the march towards digitisation. In any case, they felt that the country was large enough to accommodate different kinds of technologies. The operators were speaking during a session on ‘Spotlight: DTH’ on the final day at the Focus 2009, the third Global Summit on Entertainment and Media, organised by Assocham. Airtel »»»
