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Showing posts with label DD Direct Plus. Show all posts
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Friday, January 2, 2009

we can get FM channels through DD plus antena?

yes it is possible to get FM channels in dd direct plus which are free to air service.

1. to get free to air FM channels in india and around india. we have to buy a dish and MPEG4 setupbox. the MPEG2 won't support the FM channels because there are in MPEG4 format.

2. currently FM channels are in INSAT4B satellite at 93.5East.

3. sundirect setupbox can be used for the free to air channels and free FM radio.

4. the list of FM raio channels in satellite are Suryan FM, S FM Hyderabad, S FM Bangalore ect.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

DD Direct Plus(DTH) Targets More Than 100 Channels on DTH

DD Direct Plus, Doordarshan's free-to-air direct-to-home service, aims to have a pack of 100 channels on its platform. It currently offers 46 channels, apart from 21 channels of All India Radio.

This has become possible by lowering the annual carriage fee that broadcasters have to pay. DD Direct has added Japan’s NHK TV earlier this month. With this, it is beaming three foreign channels including Korean Broadcasting Corporation and Deutsche Welle.

they expect another 10to 15 foreign channels to join platform. DD Direct brought down the carriage fee last year from Rs 10 million to Rs 2.5 million along with a service tax of Rs 300,000. Foreign broadcasters, however, have to pay a carriage fee of Rs 5 million.

The imposition of the carriage fee of Rs 10 million had resulted in almost all news and many general entertainment channels quitting the platform. At present, the only private Indian news channel on the platform is Total TV.

The first DTH platform to be launched in the country, DD Direct had initially been launched by offering free carriage to different FTA channels. As a result, almost all the news channels had come on the platform. But many left when the carriage fee was fixed at Rs 10 million.

The platform had recently seen the entry of music channels like B4U Music and 9XM, and some south Indian TV channels. The private channels include five music channels and two spiritual channels. DD Direct's bouquet includes 20 Doordarshan channels.