The article was quite informative, thanks for the same. In India, the advertisements play vital role thru electronic media & print media. The media industries enjoy, earn, mint & loot the public money by charging huge amounts from the Marketers of the Products. This is not the end, they collect lot from cable subscribers too. Why cant GoI introduce some regulations to control fancy charges imposed by broadcasters & reduce burden on Subscribers.
The only thing that was not mentioned in the article is list of channels available thru each platforms (Dish, Tata, etc..).
It took 15 days and numerous phone calls to the shopkeeper, service center, Zee head office, n number of sales people, technicians to get them to come over to my home and install the DISH TV antennae. DISH TV phone helpdesk standard response was that they don't handle setups and I should talk to the dealer. Dealer said talk to service center. Service center said they're sending the guy and never sent him.
This was not the end of it..now another week passed before the maxi service got activated. This too after tons of phone calls where I was always told it would be taken care of, but never happened.
Now the BIG shock....I expected good quality Video, somewhere near DVD quality since this being digital n all....No such luck...this is a majorly compressed MPEG2 video feed !! It is worse than VCD quality. Sound is near MONO unless you use headphones. I thought that signal strength maybe causing this, but I had 75-76% signal, which DISH TV tech said was the max he had seen himself. people usually get 60-65%.
Damn !! My cable looked and sounded so much better with full bandwidth, and this DTH looked like small video clip made full screen on my 29 inch TV. I guess it's passable
Under CAS regime also, a consumer may have to pay near about Rs. 200/- if you can calculate channel rates and STB prices. However channel pricing is only upto CAS regime and not all over in India. So only people from big metros will enjoy low cost channles. Others from India have to pay for bouquet or so... as per broadcaster or cable operator is giving. And govt. is not concern with DTH prices. So in future , they may hike prices (like dishtv increses its price after sony comes on its platform and may be after december, they will hike prices for star bouquet also.)Is it good for consumers? Govt has to rethink of it. They are providing on bouquet only. And either on CAS or on DTH, nobody can give assurance that you will get all channels as you want. Broadcaster may discontinue to give signals to that operators, then what to do?
I think govt. have to rethink and make transperrent policy for all either broadcaster or Cable operator or DTH service provider. Govt. should not make so much differences in between DTH and cable and cable to cable also (as CAS regime and NON CAS regime)
All pay channels should not be allowed to carry any commercials/ ads / sponsorship etc. Why should the paying subscriber be forced to watch commercials. Only free to air channels be allowed to commercial airtime.
Presently the TV channels are taking for ride both the subscribers and the advertisers by fooling them.
Pay channels should be free to price their content as they deem fit in market determined system. If the content is good people may pay for it otherwise not take subscription of that particular channel.
The CAS and DTH system should be addressable. The pay channel subscriber should be billed directly by the TV company and not by the MSO/ LCO. The set top box for DTH and CAS should have a SIM card (similar to the mobile phone) for unique identity.
All free to air channels should be freely allowed to relay, receive, distribute broadcast on any platform. This will remove all differences between the players like MSO, LCO, TV company and the audience.
above metter DTH is best but two Tv display same channel at a time if we put Two LNB so i saw different channels at a time , in present system doordarshan DTH is best because selected channels r shows so u did not kill u r time.
I feel channels airing lot of advertisements should be made free channels.DTH service provided by the Govt.should include all the free channels now available.In U.S. settop boxes are provided free by the cable/DTH operators which should be the case in India too
Though both the technologies have its own advantages & disadvantages, the main problem with both is sharing of cable across different rooms in a flat. In most of the modern flats everyone has a parallel TV connection in all their rooms. With CAS, though free-to-air channels will still be available in the parallel connection, but with DTH even that is not possible because to view even a single channel you need the decoder. I guess TRAI should think about some mechanism for cable sharing to happen. Inspite of all the listed advantages of both the technologies, they have practical limitations & I firmly believe that the government is going to face stiff opposition from various sections of the society for implementing them (& specially CAS).
No doubt... DTH is better than CAS. But when it comes to pricing schemes... DishTV pricsing is based entirely on bouquet they prepare. not on channels selected by the user. means once again forceful viewing of un-wanted channels and pay for it. Which is against the CAS/DTH funda.
