7th Player in DTH Videocon entry on June 10 from Punjab. Free DTH for ever TV.

The household name in the Indian industry Videocon promises to launch its DTH by June 10. To capitalize the growing trend of the DTH market, Videocon has chalked out its plan to offer the TVs with the built-in Set-top-box, @ prices starting from Rs8000. The company foresees the current sale of 2 million TVs a year to increase further with the set-top-box being the highlight. Videocon is improving technologically with an offer of satellite DVD, to receive satellite signals and the price will be in the range of Rs4000 in addition to a home theater model; further consumers will feel elated with the exclusive STBs brought out by Videocon at Rs2000.

Videocon’s target area to begin with will be the entire northern region- from Punjab and will move southwards especially Kerala before the Onam and the Karnataka by Dusserah. Videocon stands apart in the DTH industry with its TVs and the company has already earmarked Rs10 billion for the next two year period and is gearing up to face the stiff competition from other popular DTH operators – Dish TV, Big TV, Digtial TV and Sun Direct.

how to get indian tv channels in UAE, kuala lumpur, dubai, sharjah, abu dhabi, kuwayt.

how to get indian DTH tv channels in UAE, kuala lumpur, dubai, sharjah, abu dhabi, kuwayt, qatar, bahrain, doha, manama, pakistan, nepal,srilanka, singapore, malasia, bangkok,dhaka.

the india DTH coverage is limited to india territory only. but the satellites are places in such high that it can not restrict signal to scater. so by this we can catch the signal from the satellite by following ways.

first we have get the dish and setupbok STB (MPEG2) from any local dealer with Ku LNB for free to air channels such as from dd direct plus. with is the only one DTh service will provide free to air channels in india. you get a dream box any were in world it is a open source stb.

in selection of the dish we have to take alot of care because it is the most important to catch the signals. normally in india 30cm is more than sufficient but other than india we need the larg dish it depends on the distance from india.

for example to dubai it needs 120cm of dish to get full signal from india satellite. so please choose the proper dish size to get full signal. most important is clear sky view there should not be any object like building are any others objects between the dish and sky. direct shall be facing india and the satellite is INSAT 4B at 93.5c east. it is easy by adjusting it by viewing signal in STB.

for pay channels services like dishtv, sundirect, tatasky, airteldirect, Bigtv. we need to have there STB's. in genaral all there STB's are carring by the passenger from india to respective country's but it is illlegal to carry the india STB's but there is one option is by getting DREAM BOX STB.


if carry any pay service STB there will a smart card with it. by this the encrypt signal are decrypted and you can view the channels. for you have pay the monthly or yearly fee to the service providers.
now a days payments are made easy so you pay through internet.

any technical problem shall be done only in india.

but the illiagal way of geting pay channels for free is through Dream box STB. it is open source STB run in linux with internet connection you can crack the encrypted signal and watch tv for free.



Dear all,

I installed 4 types of DTH setupbox in abu dhabi and dubai.

Sundirect in abu dhabi is working fine with 180cm dish and clear sky view. still date there is no problem.

The Dish tv in dubai is working fine but the signal varies few mins but there is issue in picture quality.

TataSKy installation is high in UAE/Dubai/Sharjah because of quality.

The dth is one way communication system so there no one find from ware your accessing the satellite.

About dream box you can only access tatasky, DD direct plus and dish tv because it is MPEG2 technology.

i found it many shops in dubai/abu dhabi/sharjah. but you have to buy smart card to view pay channels.

please write comments for more details.

Videocon to launch DTH services by October 2008 (D2H)

Videocon Group will launch its direct-to-home (DTH) service by October-end and plans to invest Rs 10 billion in the venture over two years.

Bharat Business Channel Ltd , the company which will launch the DTH service, has signed up with SingTel for six Ku-band transponders. The DTH venture is being headed by Anil Khera who was earlier in charge of Videocon's Sansui and Kelvinator brands.

"We have taken six Ku-band transponders on SingTel's ST-1 satellite. We are investing Rs 10 billion over two years and are launching the DTH service by October-end," Khera tells Indiantelevision.com.

Videocon will operate its DTH service under the D2H brand. The company will use MPEG-4 compression technology and plans to kick off the service with 200 channels.

Videocon will manufacture the set-top boxes (STBs) at its Aurangabad factory. It will use Irdeto's encryption technology.

The uplinking will be at Greater Noida, adds Khera.

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

for more information click the following link
Welcome to OpenTV

Videocon DTH service D2H coming soon

Videocon Industries, one of the largest consumer durables company in India in terms of sales. coming with its upcoming direct-to-home (DTH) business.

The DTH will be known under the D2H brand and is scheduled to test signals by the year-end. According to industry officials, the company already has a technology tie-up with Israeli firm Gilat Technology Networks, specially selected for its superior encryption technology. The company already manufactures analogue boxes and has a wide network of dealers which will be exploited for selling its DTH hardware.

At present, Information and Broadcasting Ministry does not allow exclusivity of content and the DTH players will need to focus on pricing and distribution.

Videocon set-top boxes are also expected to be cheaper than the ones currently available in the market. Pricing will be an important strategy with Videocon across all its product lines.