Comments on: Indian Satellite TV (DTH) Players : The War has Begun

By: Prateek

Prateek — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:12:02 +0000

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By: Mari Delacruz

Mari Delacruz — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:34:28 +0000

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By: Amit Goel

Amit Goel — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:04:33 +0000

Hi Roshan,
nope, DTH system is a locked system and you cannot interchange vendors. So, one STB, one Card, one connection all provided by the same vendor. PC can be connected with it with just giving it the AV output of STB to PC input. and start watching it on screen using any AV software which plays line -in. Technically speaking, you should be able to watch any FTA channel but vendors dont allow that and it gets blocked. every broadcaster or vendor does that.. so practically, you can watch only those channels which are beamed by the broadcaster.. TV tuner is not needed with STB. STB runs on a software burnt inside it and remote control is needed for STB. TV tuner won;t work as TV tuner software wont be able to communicate with STB. however, if you connect you STB with PC as mentioned above, you should be able to record the content by using any recording software.
hope this answers your questions..

By: Roshan Tamang

Roshan Tamang — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:49:12 +0000

hi
thanks for details. I am new for this DTH system and i know only how to watch my paid channels on my TV. But i want to know that how to setup my pc with this system? First thing, is it possible to use anyother set top box or any TV tuner card with existing DTH connection? Just like we use any SIM with any mobile. Some other country they locked there phone with mobile service provider but it still possible to unlock and use it. Can we do same thing with set top box? and we know that there are lots of free channels on air, so is there any possible way to watch those channels? Peoples in this world can do any thing, u can see in u tube unlocked ‘iphone s’ and some of them still using there locked ‘iphone 3g”.
another thing is how to integrat mu tv tuner with DTH settop box and use similarly we use with cable+tv tuner+tv (we can use tv tuner remote for change channels, record volume etc).

By: Samuel L.

Samuel L. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:50:54 +0000

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By: Amit Goel

Amit Goel — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:48:06 +0000

@Krishna N,

Clarity does not depend on MPEG4 or MPEG2. the digital signal is being broadcasted by everyone. I am not sure how did you measure the clarity as it is not easy to differentiate the broadcasters on clarity just by looking at TV? did you check signal quality and clarity using any electronic equipement?

I am sure that the clarity aspect should be almost equal with every broadcaster.

About the cost factor, cable is not completely digitized till now. CAS will definitely make the price go higher. Comaparing the Digital TV pricing with analog systems is not the right thing to do.

By: Krishna N

Krishna N — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:59:21 +0000

This is a pretty good article but does not talk about one important aspect, the clarity of the picture. From what I have seen, the Big TV picture is superior to that of Tata Sky which is way better than Dish TV. I have not seen Airtel, Sun and others. I don’t know if this is because of the MPEG4 system that the quality is superior.
Also, I don’t agree that the cost is an advantage over the cable systems. These have only increased the cost from 200-250 to well over 300 per month if you have people watching sports, news, movies, children’s and some regional package.

By: Amit Goel

Amit Goel — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:40:10 +0000

@ Lt Col Khare

You are absolutely right!!! but as I mentioned earlier, Indian DTH and cable market is in infancy stage. and Indian Media and People lack knowledge about it. especially Indian Media is completely being stupid about it.

Let people learn about it and start deciding on their own..

Although just to correct you, DTH and cable TV fight in almost every country for the bigger pie.