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Cricketing Glory
India lifts the much awaited golden trophy of the BIGGEST cricketing tournament of the world, the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 . In an age where the Twenty20 format of the game was overshadowing the conventional forms of cricket, the men in blue have resurrected the ancient charm for the fifty over match and had [...]
Continue reading...Budget Offerings
15. March 2011
The Union Budget 2011-2012 presented by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had a couple of interesting notes for the digital industry – concessions for mobile parts and accessories while software, including games and music, will have to pay less service tax. The government re-iterated that discussions are under way to liberalise the foreign direct investment policy, [...]
Continue reading...Choice For Consumers
23. February 2011
Grand plans of entertainment await all cricket lovers next month. ESPN STAR Sports (ESS), Asia’s number one sports broadcaster and ICC’s global Broadcast and Production Partner, is going to make the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 presentation truly entertaining and engaging this year with many first of its kind initiatives such as Live match coverage [...]
Continue reading...Flooded with new channels
17. January 2011
Television in India is growing by the day! It is a huge industry and has thousands of programmes in all the states of India. Approximately half of all Indian households own a television. As of 2010, a total number of 515 channels are available in the country out of which 150 are pay channels. And [...]
Continue reading...Children are alsowatching !
10. December 2010
Be it bringing in hot starlets from Glam world to show off skin, using abusive languages or fighting onscreen, reality shows like Bigg Boss 4 on Colors and Rakhi Ka Insaaf on NDTV Imagine have done it all. Both the shows have been accused of invading privacy and promoting vulgarity. Not only has it helped [...]
Continue reading...Plan Digitization With Cable Operators
4. November 2010
First time in the history of cable tv industry, it is seen that cable tv operators scattered all over the country are coming together to join hands and put up a firm stand to Trai and Government’s actions and potential policies in the broadcasting sector. Cable operators from all parts of the country are meeting [...]
Continue reading...Right on Schedule
20. October 2010
Microsoft has made the long-awaited Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) beta available for download. The new version of Microsoft’s popular browser offers support for the most cutting-edge Web technologies, a new look but familiar feel, and an overall faster browsing experience. Much has been said about Internet Explorer’s shift from leading browser innovation and market share, [...]
Continue reading...Digital By 2013?
13. September 2010
Trai again takes it attempt to drive the process of digitasation in the country. This time, through a new set of recommendations to initiate a four-phase digitasation process for Cable TV networks with a sunset date of 31 Dec 2013. This is a highly ambitious target that Trai has set out to achieve, being fully [...]
Continue reading...Tariff blow to Cable
6. August 2010
The new tariff rules by Telecom Regulatory of India (TRAI) could lead to a major tariff war between cable operators and the direct-to-home (DTH) operators with the Trai considering a reduction of the existing pricing formula for broadcasters on DTH, which is likely to bring down DTH bills by half. The new formula means cheaper [...]
Continue reading...Monsoon Hungama
7. July 2010
The monsoons though have proved to be in favor of cable TV operators this season, with the DTH signals dropping out in the rains and the DTH service coming to a stop amidst the ongoing FIFA worldcup football matches. The digitalization of cable TV is one more add – on for opting back to the [...]
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25. April 2011
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