Tata SKY Review

[devilhead_satish]

There are lots of bloated things about India. Go ahead, label me an unpatriotic buffoon, pessimist and what have you, but even you will agree when we get talking about India's cable TV distribution system. For those not in the know, its a big mafia in itself. Each area is controlled by a goon or a similar equivalent and anyone making the slightest of noises is "taken care of". Thats an exaggeration of course, but you get the picture.

Even if you can live with that, you can certainly not be living with the quality of the signal or the choice of channels Mr. Cable Gangsta offers. And no Siree, no explanation offered for frequent outages and distorted signals. If you're lucky enough (and Mr. Gangsta and Co are in the mood...) they might, at best, give you a "kaam chaloo hai" reply or something to that effect.




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[Hitboxx]

Nice one, thanks for the review.

[s18000rpm]

nice review, i also have Tata Sky with 6 months subscription.

but you forgot to mention the Price

Product Price + Installation = 4K+ & after this, you need to subscribe & renew your subcription (which you've mentioned).

btw the tata Service ppl have done the work very neatly, i'll up some photos later.

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btw, where do you live?

i've never had those kinds of problem with my local cable operators. (at chennai, b'lore, nagpur...)

[The Conqueror]

Nice1, Thanks for review...

[axxo]

Nice Review.

Only minus which i would say is the subscription cost...way too high.

[nvidia]

Nice Review
I use dishTv.. Thinking of changing to TataSky....

[kumarmohit]

Just FYI, there is a third player in the market, Doordarshan's DD Direct Plus.

[praka123]

Sun DTH seems affordable for me.it costs Rs2000 and have a one year free subscription and also it bundles all malayalam+tamil and hindi/free channels too.after a year,ur supposed to pay only Rs.85 per month so best deal for all south indians i suppose!

there are other dth mongers too!

[s18000rpm]

only Tata Sky & Dish Tv offer paid channels, others give the free channels, difference - good quality picture & sound. thats all.

[infra_red_dude]

Tata Sky

Quality/Reception/Uptime - 10/10
Initial cost and subscription - 2/10

I haf it and I'm not happy with the subscription charges.

[hellgate]

the only thing thats preventing me from going the DTH way is i use the same cable connection for both my tv and my pc (i.e i pay for only i connection but in reality i'm using 2 ).if i switch to DTH i'll loose this advantage and i'll hafta pay something bout 500-700 p/m which is way too high.

[nvidia]

Only DishTv and TataSky is good.. The others are not all that popular and they are not even know by many people.

[praka123]

^sun DTH is known by most in TN,andhra,karnataka,kerala JFYI.it seems tata sky services are available for sun subscribers too!
EDIT:SUN DTH website:
http://www.sundirect.in/

http://www.livemint.com/2007/09/2202...-for-Rs75.html
http://www.sundth.blogspot.com/

Hi guys,

i got a confirmation from "HELL CRUSHER" that Sundirect card can be used on any 3rd party MPEG4 receiver which support irdeto encryption technology.


this will be a grt news for UAE guys who dont want to carry a receiver which ultimately taken away from them by the airport customs...

now they can just carry a Smart Card and buy a receiver from there to use it...

and no need to send bak the receiver to India once it fails |(like dishtv and TataSky)


cheers

http://broadbandforum.in/sun-direct-...mpeg-reciever/
now where does sky and dishnet to compete ?

and for NI's:
Sun tv is the most famous channel in south india.also their udaya,teja and surya are respective kannada,telegu and malayalam channels.sun tv is owned by maran brothers(err..dayanidhi maran et al) the initial cost of 2000rs is very affordable.
http://www.sundirect.in/
http://www.sunnetwork.org
http://www.sunnetwork.org/suntv/

[nvidia]

^^I know about Sun cuz i'm in Bangalore.
But it is not popular like TataSky or DishTV

[praka123]

^wait!Im switching to sun within an hour 8)

[axxo]

Well no Vijay TV in SUndirect ...

[shri]

TRAI had announced that DTH providers should provide consumers the channels of their choice and not bundle them. Source: http://www.livemint.com/Articles/2007/09/04002547/Trai-unbundles-TV-channels-for.html

When is this coming into effect?

[praka123]

OK.I applied for sun dth just now but these ppl are saying have to wait for a day or so for to give connection

as already there is lot of pending applications(it is special case in kerala,as almost all malayalam channels are bundled by sun;same goes to karnataka also i think).

Also,I checked the quality etc.
sun tv is in collaboration with tata sky also,but with rental real small amount Rs75 for 75 channles+15FM channels and rs 30 something for star,sony boquets etc.really worth for a malayali,kannadiga!but for tamil/hindi viewers the deal sucks as of now as it is not bundling many channels!pay channel option is on the anvil afaik
kerala bundling by sun:
http://www.sundirect.in/packages-malayalam.html

[nvidia]

^^I think its better if you stay away from Sun.
Go for Tata Sky or DishTV they are the best.
If you need Sun channels, they are available on DishTV.

[praka123]

^regional choice dude!I am a Malayali and i am getting all channels in malayalam with sun dth!if i need extra pay channels,i can get individual channels by this december.u wont understand it! this is a steal of a deal for Malayalis and may be kannadigas to certain extent
BTW,read:

Unforeseen Rush
Of the seven licensees, DD Direct, Zee’s Dish TV, Tata Sky and Sun Direct are already beaming in, while Reliance ADAG, Bharti Telemedia and Videocon’s Bharat Broadcast Channels will unleash their fare next. And the last five licences came in just the last couple of years.

http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/ne...yers-/320168/1

[nvidia]

^^ok... If you want regional stuff only then Sun is good enough... Otherwise i DishTV and TataSky are the best

[sakumar79]

The TRAI ruling was on Dec 1, 2007, but (from what I understood in the document) it seems to have a clause allowing DTH providers 3 months time to give the user choice of channels... Each channel should not cost more than 3 times the average cost of one channel in that package, and the total cost of individual channels in a package should not cost more than 1.5 times the cost of the package...

Arun

[ax3]

nice review ....... bt monsoon season mein any problem ?

[nvidia]

^^Yes in dishTv while its raining your signal goes out for a few minutes.. But it'll be back within 10 minutes.. its sometimes very irritating when that happens...

[Rockstar11]

nice review and lovely rainbow and tata sky pic
I use dishTv.. kyun ki Dishtv mein FM radio hai

[praka123]

^"sun direct" dth bundles 15 FM channels 8)

[nvidia]

^^You get more than 15 radio channels with DishTV

[victor_rambo]

****! i just bought a In2cablenet SET TOP BOX a couple of days earlier.
Satish, you should have posted it few days earlier!

They(SET TOP BOX) promised me digital quality picture and sound.
Though the quality is digital, I get scrambled picture and sound with that 'creech-creech' sound once every 10 seconds. That not what I paid for.
Also many times I get this '7-Bad signal or no signal. Contact cable operator'.

I paid Rs. 1350 (onetime) for the instrument and now have to pay Rs. 280 per month till CAS is activated here(Thane). After that Rs.5+ taxes per pay channel. But seeing the Tata Sky family pack, I am tempted to buy Tata Sky.

Really, I won't have bothered Rs. 4000 + Rs. 250 monthly packages for what Tata Sky is offering.

I will soon write a review about SET TOP BOX!

[praka123]

does dth faces any problem during monsoon, lightning etc seems i have to watch for it!

[s18000rpm]

Originally Posted by rohan_shenoy

I get scrambled picture and sound with that 'creech-creech' sound once every 10 seconds. That not what I paid for.
Also many times I get this '7-Bad signal or no signal. Contact cable operator'.

most probably, the ppl who installed it, dint install it properly.
they've to position it (Tata Sky ppl use some instruments for it), did these noobs do it manually?