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It is big, exactly what they are claiming it to be! The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group launched its DTH service called Big TV last month. The service is supposed to revolutionize the TV viewing experience in India.

What makes it special?

With its entry, the Big TV service becomes the fourth DTH service provided in India. The Big TV service enters the market with an edge of the MPEG-4 technology over its two popular competitors. This technology helps it offer more channels than its competitors.

What are the features?

Video-on-demand: The Big TV service comes with 32 video-on-demand channels for you. With no advertisements interrupting movie watching, you can convert your home into a theatre and enjoy the good picture quality. You will be able to watch the latest movies as the movies on Big TV are updated every fifteen days. You can apparently watch as many as 600 movies a year.

Quality picture: The Big TV service promises better picture and audio quality as compared to other DTH providers.

Video-recording: The set-top boxes of the Big TV service have digital video recording facility.

Plan your viewing: It is extremely easy to keep track of the channel programmes with schedules for up to seven days are available with the Big TV service.

Set reminders: You will not miss your favourite programs anymore. Set reminders with Big TV and let it remind you of programs minutes before their telecast time.

Parental control: The Big TV service offers the flexibility to censor the channels for family viewing. Parents can block the channels they do want children to access.

Make a list of favourites: Viewers can customize the listing of channels that they like so that they do no have to look for their favourite channel later.

Better starting offers: The starting offers of the Big TV service are better than the offers by other providers, making its offer lucrative.

Better signal: With the Big TV service, there will be no worry of losing the signal during rain. This comes as great news for all the people tires of losing the TV signal in the midst of a downpour.

What is in store for the future?

The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is confident that its DTH service will take over the market. Reliance’s DTH service has big plans of taking over forty percent of the Indian market over the next one year. The plan may sound ambitious but it is definitely not misplaced. With thorough study of the limitations of the earlier DTH service providers, the Big TV service has made a smart entry in the market.

The entry of the Big TV service is not only good for the people who will opt for the service but also for those who are with the other service providers. The service is definitely going to shake up its competition, thus forcing them to improve their quality of service.

Only time will tell if the Big TV service will live up to its name.

To discuss this furthur please visit Reliance Big TV DTH service forum.

Television has undergone a lots of improvements since it was first built in 1928. There is no remote control at that time. The entire wonder consisted of a disk, a light (which tended to make the images orange in appearance) and a moderate need for electricity.By the 1930`s, televisions (televisores) had evolved to all electrical components. The typical screen was about 6X8 inches and generally was mounted in a much larger cabinet. By the late 1930`s televisions were made by several manufacturers in the United States and throughout Europe and the Soviet Union. Technically, the ability to produce programs in color occurred in the late 1940`s, however it was in the mid 1960`s that major broadcasters began to produce their programming in color. Early colored televisions did not provide exact color replication. One often noticed unnatural tint which was correctable by manipulating the `tint` dial on the television.