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Trai recommends complete Digital TV by 2013
In a bid to offer more choice and quality to consumers, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has decided to phase out analogue TV services completely by the end of 2013. The move will have an impact on 105 million households in which television viewers will be able to choose from roughly 800-1,000- odd [...]
Continue reading...TRAI Revises Tariff
9. August 2010
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has revised tariff in the various sector, a step that will bring down the content cost for DTH, digital cable and IPTV operators. It has issued its tariff order for 2010, for digital addressable systems – such as Cable TV to DTH – and has insisted that customers [...]
Continue reading...Old relationships, New thinking The New Star Plus
7. July 2010
Ten years ago, Star Plus went all Hindi. And as we know, several things happened. Kaun Banega Crorepati and saas-bahu serials became national obsessions. Amitabh Bachchan resurrected his fading career (and how — he’s still doing dozens of films and endorsements). Tulsi and gang became part of everyone’s extended family (but remember, those were the [...]
Continue reading...India’s 3G auction ends what happens next ?
11. June 2010
Final price for pan-Indian spectrum $3.61 billion, but no one company wins spectrum in all areas. India’s thirdgeneration mobile bandwidth auction ended after 34 days, boosting government offers by $14.6 billion, as companies such as Bharti Airtel Ltd. and Reliance Communications Ltd. bid to expand their services in the world’s fastest growing telecom market. Bharti, [...]
Continue reading...TRAI floats consultation paper on Cable TV tariff in CAS areas
12. May 2010
The regulatory body for the broadcasting and telecommunications industry in India, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has floated a consultation paper to review the tariff for cable TV service in CAS (conditional access system) notified areas. Going digital has enabled the Indian pay-TV market to continue growing at a satisfactory pace, and providing the [...]
Continue reading...Digitalization is future of Indian broadcasting sector
21. April 2010
To offer better audio quality and sharper picture tomillions of its viewers, Indian broadcasting sector plans to go completely digital. Information and Broadcasting minister Ambika Soni said that digitalization of the Cable TV Services is one of the key thrust areas identified by the Ministry because of the “advantages digital mode offers in terms of [...]
Continue reading...Digital Cable Headend
14. January 2010
Cable television headend is a master facility for receiving television signals for processing and distribution over a cable television system. The headend facility is normally unstaffed and surrounded by some type of security fencing and is typically building or large shed housing electronic equipment used to receive and re-transmit video over the local cable infrastructure. [...]
Continue reading...Govt. nod toHITS Policy
11. December 2009
T he Indian government has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting on policy guidelines issued for Headend In The Sky (HITS) operators. This decision comes after 2 years of receiving TRAI’s recommendations on the digital transmission in cable TV. HITS is a digital delivery mode of distribution of TV channel and it [...]
Continue reading...Windo indo indows ws 7 Latest offering from Microsoft
10. November 2009
W indows 7 is the latest version of Microsoft Win dows, a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, notebooks, tablet PCs and media center PCs. Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and general retail availability on October 22, 2009, [...]
Continue reading...Mobile TV Services
15. October 2009
With the advent of newer technology in the home entertainment media such as the latest LED and LCD TVs, we see a change in the technology that brings TV into our homes be it on the regular TV screens or even through the internet on our computer screens. However the latest technologies that have come [...]
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14. September 2010
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