Big TV touches half a million subscriber-mark, promises HD Broadcasts
SOURCE Big TV, the DTH arm of Reliance Communications, has touched the figure of 500000 5subscribers within two months of its launch. The company is now targeting five million subscribers within the first year of operations and plans
to double its channel bouquet from 200 to 400 by next year.
Big TV had already tied up with Thomson Headend Systems for a complete head-end system to boost its number of channels. To augment its growth plans, it had already booked four more transponders of the MEASAT satellite, which would take its total transponder capacity to 12.
The world’s latest MPEG4 technology platform on Big TV enables it to offer double the number of channels in the same transponder capacity as against established DTH players.
On future plans, Mr. Kapoor said the company would launch DVR (digital video recorder) by December-end and also plans to launch interactive cricket and interactive news by then.
By mid-2009, the company expected to have launched 15-20 high definition (HD) channels.