Indian natural calamity alerts on DTH TV screen

Indian satellites run by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will alert state agencies and the public about imminent natural disasters through direct-to-home (DTH) television broadcasts.

"In the next six months, (state-run) Doordarshan will relay warning signals from Insat transponders in Ku-band on impending disasters through a DTH receiver linked to the national disaster management support system in New Delhi," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair told IANS.

"The advance alert will enable state agencies and the public to prepare for any natural calamity and minimise damage to life and property," he added. "As against expensive and heavy equipment consisting of an antenna, power supply system and a TV booster, we have developed a lighter DTH receiver that can be hooked to a TV set for receiving advance warning through voice or signals even while watching any channel," Nair pointed out.

ISRO has commissioned state-run Bharat Electronics Ltd to manufacture about 1,000 DTH receiver sets for supplying to state agencies and other stakeholders.

"The receivers, costing less than Rs.10,000 per set, can be installed by state governments in disaster-prone or coastal areas for alerting people in advance about heavy rains, cyclones, high-speed winds, tsunami and other natural disasters.

"The novel project will be launched on a pilot basis by this year-end using Doordarshan's DTH platform," Nair said after delivering the valedictory address at an international seminar on disaster management.

Private DTH operators such as Tata Sky, Dish TV, Sun TV and others will subsequently be roped in to offer the service on their platform as they are also using ISRO's Ku-band transponders to telecast their bouquet of channels.

What is OpenTV software in Indian for DTH?

OpenTV' is a middleware for digital television (DTH). OpenTV Core software technology contains a hardware abstraction layer to enable hardware independence, TV libraries, a selection of application execution environments to create a digital television environment for set-top box.

OpenTV,use's its technologies to enable a range of interactive TV services, including multi-camera-angle viewing, gaming, interactive channels, push-VOD (Video-On-Demand ), PVR (Personal Video Recorder )and Electronic Programm Guide (EPG).

Currently openTV is used by DISHtv TATASky ans soon on SUNDIRECT. the new entries are coming with openTv like BIGtv, AirtelDTH, D2H and ETHAir

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Reliance is ready to launch BIGTV (DTH) with 5 million DTH STBs

Direct-to-Home BIGTV(DTH) services subsidiary of Reliance Communications. Big TV has placed an order for 5 million set top boxes (STBs) with an aim to procure the same at 25 percent reduced cost as compared to the prevailing cost of procuring MPEG2 STBs. Infact Reliance will gain not only on the cost front but also on the quality of transmission as its order is for MPEG4 standard based STBs.

The company has reportedly received half of the consignment and the other half is expected in a week’s time. The vendors for the order include Hyundai, UEC, Thomson, Hunmax, Homecast, Koship and Kaon Media.

There will be four to six models of STBs on offer to subscribers with some of the models providing an option to record the programmers.

TataSky lowers monthly subscriptions by Rs 50

With an aim to Competate DISHtv and rope in more customers Direct-to-Home operator TataSky on Monday reduced monthly subscription charges by up to Rs 50 across all packages.

The Tatasky already filled a case agnest the DISHtv for 'free set-top box' offer was an anti-competitive and deceptive act.with fair trade regulator Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Prac tices Commission (MRTPC)

The charge for 'Family Pack' has been reduced to Rs 200 per month earlier from Rs 250 per month earlier. Family Pack offers around 90 Hindi, regional, kids, infotainment and news channels in regional languages. Mehra said the monthly charge for top-end 'Super Saver' pack has also been reduced to Rs 260 from Rs 300 earlier. The pack offers 110 channels including English channels.

The move will help us to reach to the price-sensitive consumers and also believe that this will help us to achieve the third million-subscriber base much earlier from two million in April

Dish TV To Launch Mobile MDU In Market

Testing have beed carried out with ten individual television sets using two dish antennae on a luxury cruiser recently, Dish TV Mobile division has just crossed the major technological hurdle of setting up an MDU system in moving vehicles.

This technological breakthrough allows DTH Mobile to set up individual screens in luxury buses and train compartments, where each passenger would be able to watch channels of his or her choice.

In the previous system, all passengers had to watch only a single channel that the bus operator would run from the moving DTH.

Notably, Dish TV Mobile had already started offering personal vehicles with dish antennae and there have been some steady sales. But the problem remained with offering channels of choice to individual TV sets in a mobile carrier.

Rent a movie by BIGFLIX first Time in India(Reliance)

Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group seeks to energize this momentum with its well-footed presence in the realm of new media entertainment. Started the Renting the movie in india in a big way under the brand BIGFLIX.

With a basic plan of Rs250.00 for month with unlimited DVD movies. who can now rent by walking into a BIGFlix store or have a movie delivered to a place(free of cost). you can also book by website http://www.bigflix.com/ or Call Centre, Website, SMS service and On Ground Stores.

BIGFlix has presence across the cities of Bangalore, Chandigarh, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai and this will be soon followed by Ahmedabad, Chennai, Indore and Kolkata. it is under way to go pan India presence including small towns.

For ADAG Reliance – Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is under way to go in big way with its DTH venture as it acquire maximum number of title for the group of entertainment business like BIGFLIX, BIGFM, BIG tv, BIG DTH, movie on demand by reliance mobile.

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