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Rep Power: 12 | If you just look around in Indian cities you will find mini dishes popping out from the terraces of suburbs and out of the window sunshades and all obscure places that you will least expect. What are these mini dishes that we see? These are the DTH or Direct to Home TV receivers. Lately there is a huge proliferation of these DTH connections in India and the DTH connections is gradually eating the market share of the most hailed cable network of Indian cities. It is not only in the cities DTH is gaining popularity, even in the remotest villages we can see Sun DTH and BIG TV DTH connections. One of the reasons for this sudden explosion of these DTH connections is due the reduced cost of DTH TV. It is costing almost the same are less than the monthly subscriptions. For instance Sun Direct DTH is charging only Rs. 75 for the basic channel package which will satisfy most of the customers where as cable operators charge Rs. 150 to Rs. 200 for their grainy channels. DTH TV comes with CD level picture quality and DVD level sound quality. People who have home theatres at home were able to enjoy the 5:1 digital sound quality only when they bought good quality DVDs. Now they can enjoy the high quality 5:1 digital surround sound with their regular TV shows. Why did the cost of DTH suddenly reduce drastically? It is because of the increasing competition in the Indian DTH market. Originally when DTH was introduced there wasn’t any big competition in the market two major player that ruled the DTH market in India were Dish TV and Tata Sky. However, today that is not the case more and more new players are coming into the Indian DTH market. It was Sun Direct which revolutionized the pricing schemes of the DTH. They announced rock bottom prices that were difficult to be met by the other major players. However, they too were forced to reduce their cost considerably. After Sun Direct, BIG TV (Reliance Big TV CHANNEL LIST) from the Reliance group was launched. They too matched the tariffs of Sun Direct. Airtel DTH followed BIG TV. People had great hopes with Airtel DTH and it was expected that Airtel which revolutionized the mobile and the broadband industry would come in with highly competitive pricing. However their tariffs don’t seem to impress the users and they are yet to reach the market. As of now Airtel DTH has not created any major impact in the industry. It is Sun Direct that is cruising fast through its competition. The cut throat competition that has brought down the cost of DTH services in India has become the axe for Cable network which was the only known form of TV entertainment that offered so many channels to most consumers in India. With the current trends, Cable TV operators are to go and they will have to become DTH dealers to survive. |
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| Platinum Member | While it is true that DTH prices have drastically reduced, it will be naive to think that they are matching the cable TV operators. If one considers the startup packages from Sun or Tata or DishTV or others for that matter, you will observe that these package consist of FTA channels, one or two paid channels and some paid news channels. This is hardly a package. Agreed that such a package maybe Rs. 75 or Rs. 99 pm but the cable operator offers much more at Rs. 150 or Rs 250. The problem with the cable operator is that they charge arbitrarily. In areas of high density and penetration and where people are unwilling to pay high, they charge less. In affluent neighbourhoods, they charge much higher. In the absense of CAS in all parts of the nation, apart from metros, people cannot select what they want. But it is not just the cost factor that is causing people to switch to DTH.
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Any way competition makes things get corrected. so this healthy competition will yield value for money and improved quality of service. The cable operators are not losing money, but they have earned a lot before we switch to dth, now their earnings are getting lower. The local cable guys dont pay taxes properly as per the number of customers.so they made fat profit through our subscriptions. but the dth operators have to pay properly, and now the government getting the tax. i hope the government will come forward soon and reduce the taxation structure for the DTH,to boost the regulated industry which pay taxes higher than cable guys. Quote:
DTH TV comes with dvd level picture quality and cd level sound quality. isn't it. Last edited by prasannaganesh; 12-18-08 at 03:13 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost | ||
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Rep Power: 2 | what ever the format , but we really get a good clarity through dth. most of all for the big screen owners. |
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| I don't understand - transmitting in MPEG2 or MPEG4 with a quality less than MPEG2 is what you are saying...? |
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What I am saying is that MPEG2 or MPEG4, the video quality still does not match DVD/MPEG2. An MPEG2 stream is created by sampling raw video with a bit rate to produce an encoded stream. Better (higher) the bit rate, the better is quality and vice versa. DVD use high and variable bit rate for the MPEG2 and hence its quality is better. Indian DTH also use MPEG2 or MPEG4 but they use the bare optimum bit rate for sampling and hence the quality is lower. Contrary to most popular belief and fuelled further by MPEG4 operators, it is told to the consumers that MPEG4 is better than MPEG2. Almost everybody falls for these claims. This is abslutely not true. There is no difference between MPEG2 and MPEG4. But MPEG4 uses much better compression and this results in less bandwidth requirement from the satellite transponders. This allows them to offer more channels in less. To the end users like us, it will make absolutely no difference in terms of viewing quality. | |
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| Platinum Member | Thank you. You made my day. There was someone on another thread who kept insisting on MPEG4 being better than MPEG2. He said that he is a student of Audio/Video engineering and eats/breathes/drinks video technology. I have conducted several experiments myself. I borrowed my friends True HD (1080p) DV-Cam and shot a 5 minute video. Using softwares such as TMPG Xpress, Virtual Dub, Mainconcept, etc. I created MPEG2 stream @ 4000~8000 kbits/s VBR. I also created MPEG4/H.264 @ the same bit rate. The MPEG2 file (640x480) was 192 KB whereas the MPEG4 (640x480) was about 36 KB. There was no difference in quality. So as you see apart from size, nothing better happened. p/s. If you have repo'ed me in the recent past then you can't repo me again. The trick is to repo some other people before you can repo me or someone else again. |
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1. A gray sphere that indicates that the user is offline. It turns green when the user is online. 2. Scales icon. This is for giving repo (reputation) to the user. You can give an +ve or -ve repo. 3. A red traiangle with exclaimation mark. This is to report a post to the admin/moderators. Click the scales icon to give a repo. Please read this thread - most informative: http://www.indiabroadband.net/genera...rep-power.html (what is that rep power) Last edited by just4kix; 12-19-08 at 09:14 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost | |
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Rep Power: 1 | if dth started following services dth might be possible DTH successfull to waive out cable tv 1. 3-4 tv on one subscription dth charges 100 to 50% extra of subscription for extra tv 2. no package system very hard to select pack suitable for you some time customer pay for the channel which they do not want to view 3. subscription system per channel based if u want to watch cnbc tv and aajtk news at your office then buy subscription of 2 channel 4. pay per view system provide all channels, all services, works on all tv installed in home , no monthly subscription charges only pay as per day/hour/min customer viewed dth. 5. possible services but not launched by any dth service a) video telephonic services (DTH 2 DTH user) b) broad band internet c) radio and tv sepration (listen radio on multimedia speaker and watch tv channal same time d) video share facility for watching vedio DTH to DTH example : i connect my dvd to my dth and show my marrige video to my another dth user friend |
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| In my area DTH is still flop at least so i am never thinking about that i am very much satisfied with cable 1. I have got couple of connection in almost same price by the local cable may be in DTH you can see 4-5 tv but channel simultaneously will be same we can see different program in both TV in same time now in case movie i watch by DVD. 2.Very few people have taken they know when any problem comes how much time takes to recover that problem . But still I agree that lots feature is also present in DTH which already mention by other members and also cable service is totally depend on individual cable operator so everybody don't have the same experience. |
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Rep Power: 1 | The DTH is the "Next big thing", but honestly, they need to improve their services a lot before it will start catching up. Fortunately, Indian public is demanding quality service now and is not satisfied with whatever is thrown at them. |
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