Ok, apart from FIFA WC in June 2010, we also have Cricket's Asia cup of 50 over format. With all attention to Football WC associated with declining popularity of 50 over format, Asia cup is organised in Sri Lanka (during Monsoon season!). And yet another India - Sri Lanka encounter on cards, viewers are hardly worried to follow it.
India & Sri Lanka have won their 1st games, and now have to see response to India - Pak match and final winner of tournament, past 2 times Sri Lanka being the champion!
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Stop the irritating vuvuzela sould for FIFA WC 2010 on TV
Whenever I watch FIFA World cup matches on TV, 1 thing that highly irritates me is the vuvuzela sound on TV. Many people have commented against it, about its affect on health on deafness, we would like broadcasters of tournament to simple suppress this noise and let enjoy the matches!
Thursday, 27 May 2010
India HD – High Definition Television Era begins
In 1982 with Asian Games held in India, our country saw the entry of colour Television. Since then many things changed in history of Indian Television. India’s national broadcaster spread throughout country on its Terrestrial network. Then in 90s came era of Satellite television through Cable TV network.
In first decade of 21st century, we saw another emerging medium Direct-to-Home (DTH), and even people from remote regions could receive 100s of channels in their homes. Now in 2010 another revolution in Indian Television is about to begin. It’s High Definition Television (HDTV).
HDTV provides sharper & clearer picture with resolution of 1280x720 pixels or 1920x1080 pixels as against 720x480 pixels of Standard definition TV. HDTV also provide Widescreen cinema experience with Surround sound (operator’s content choice).
India already saw first entrant of HDTV through Cable network ‘ICC Cables Network’ of Pune who offered limited HD content and also DTH Operator ‘Sun Direct’ who offered Tamil & Telugu programmes along with National Geographic HD channel & IPL HD feed through broadcaster. But with 2010 Commonwealth Games broadcasted in HD by Doordarshan, many other DTH operators like Reliance Big TV, Airtel Digital TV, DISH TV and TATASKY have plans to launch their HD service. On 05 May 2010, Reliance announced its HD+DVR (Digital TV Recorder, STB with internal recording facility) offering STB at Rs 7490 and plans to launch HD channel in coming months. Soon by 27 May 2010 Dish TV also announced to launch its HD service with major attraction being FIFA 2010 World cup in HD in agreement with broadcasters ESPN-STAR. Although no official news from Airtel & TATASKY (and Videocon too!), but these operators could also surely testing their HD service capability in background and we could hear some announcement from them soon. Already channels like National Geography & Discovery ready to launch HD service in India, many abroad TV contents & Sports content is available in HD format.
Now with prices of LCD/LED TVs coming down and many TV manufacturers selling HD ready TVs, Indian are ready to embrace new experience of Television viewing knows as High Definition Television aka HDTV!
Source:-
ICC Cable Networks Pune HD - http://www.iccnetwork.net/new/iccnetwork.html
Sun Direct HD - http://www.sundirect.in/HD/index.php
Reliance Big TV HD - http://www.bigtv.co.in/hd_dvr.html
Reliance Big TV HD news - http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k10/may/may28.php
DISH TV HD news - http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k10/may/may183.php
HDTV Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_television
In first decade of 21st century, we saw another emerging medium Direct-to-Home (DTH), and even people from remote regions could receive 100s of channels in their homes. Now in 2010 another revolution in Indian Television is about to begin. It’s High Definition Television (HDTV).
HDTV provides sharper & clearer picture with resolution of 1280x720 pixels or 1920x1080 pixels as against 720x480 pixels of Standard definition TV. HDTV also provide Widescreen cinema experience with Surround sound (operator’s content choice).
India already saw first entrant of HDTV through Cable network ‘ICC Cables Network’ of Pune who offered limited HD content and also DTH Operator ‘Sun Direct’ who offered Tamil & Telugu programmes along with National Geographic HD channel & IPL HD feed through broadcaster. But with 2010 Commonwealth Games broadcasted in HD by Doordarshan, many other DTH operators like Reliance Big TV, Airtel Digital TV, DISH TV and TATASKY have plans to launch their HD service. On 05 May 2010, Reliance announced its HD+DVR (Digital TV Recorder, STB with internal recording facility) offering STB at Rs 7490 and plans to launch HD channel in coming months. Soon by 27 May 2010 Dish TV also announced to launch its HD service with major attraction being FIFA 2010 World cup in HD in agreement with broadcasters ESPN-STAR. Although no official news from Airtel & TATASKY (and Videocon too!), but these operators could also surely testing their HD service capability in background and we could hear some announcement from them soon. Already channels like National Geography & Discovery ready to launch HD service in India, many abroad TV contents & Sports content is available in HD format.
Now with prices of LCD/LED TVs coming down and many TV manufacturers selling HD ready TVs, Indian are ready to embrace new experience of Television viewing knows as High Definition Television aka HDTV!
Source:-
ICC Cable Networks Pune HD - http://www.iccnetwork.net/new/iccnetwork.html
Sun Direct HD - http://www.sundirect.in/HD/index.php
Reliance Big TV HD - http://www.bigtv.co.in/hd_dvr.html
Reliance Big TV HD news - http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k10/may/may28.php
DISH TV HD news - http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k10/may/may183.php
HDTV Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_television
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Mobile Intereference with TATASKY?
I faced a very strange problem while watching IPL on MAX. My PC is near TV, and while watching IPL on MAX, sometimes I used my Airtel mobile for internet browsing by using mobile as modem. Whenever I started using internet, picture & signal on MAX channel and all other Sports channel gone very bad, though other channels were working fine. I later realised it happened only when mobile is being used nearby for internet.
I am really surprised to see this problem and wonder what could be causing that.
I am really surprised to see this problem and wonder what could be causing that.
Monday, 1 February 2010
Mumbai belong to All, But...
Mumbai belongs to India, says 'Marathi' Sachin
Mumbai belongs to all of India: Mukesh Ambani
Will protect north Indians in Mumbai: RSS
Mumbai belongs to all of India: Chidambaram
From Master-Blasters to Richest Industrialist, and Nationalist orgainsation to Central govt ministers, everybody is behind Mumbai, and in name of National Integration & Constituational rights claiming 'Mumbai belongs to All'. But... does anybody bothers to ask Mumbai & Mumbaikars what they feel about it? Does Mumbai wants more people, or rather can it sustain more incoming population? Would it be able to provide basic facilities for all new population adding rapidly to city.
Mumbai formed in 18th century has seen rapid growth in last century and is now most populated city in World (List of cities proper by population). According to the 2001 census, the population of Mumbai was 11,914,398. According to extrapolations carried out by the World Gazetteer in 2008, Mumbai has a population of 13,662,885. Such high population is creating huge demands for basic amenities like Housing, Food, Water, Roads, Transport, Drainage. The government is struggling hard to provide all these basic needs to high population. House prices are peak high in Mumbai. Condition seems so worse that Mumbai didn't find place in top 100 cities considered for quality of living (List of cities by quality of living). The deteriorating quality of living is giving rise to Slums. City already hosts largest slums in Asia and estimated population living there could be up to 1 Million! Many illiegal immigrants adding the population number and also create problems about social security & crime. In 2008 crime rate increased by 5.4 per cent.
This was about people living below quality of living standards. Even Middle-class & Upper-class population is suffering from problems like lack of proper housing, educational facility, roads, food & water supply. The local government had to carry out campaign urging people to conserve water. Another major problem that is growing is creating opportunity for employment. Large existing & daily growing population is creating huge demand of employment, and lack of opportunities is creating unemployment, which fuels politics & endangers social harmony, which city has seen in recent times.
So before making statements like 'Mumbai for all', our respected leaders & politicians should try to see the problems Mumbai is facing due to ever growing population. Even state govt had taken good initiative by providing employment opportunities to local population first, but politics succeeded over sensible decision, and government had to withdraw the decision in 'respect' to constitution. Now that state govt in pressure from central govt given free entry for all in Mumbai it should atleast put warning boards at city entrance like -
"Welcome to Mumbai, as per constitutional right nobody can stop you from coming, but don't ask for house as we have no more space to build house for you. And yes... also try to manage without water as we are having huge shortage of water supply (even Master Blaster said that on TV). Welcome again. Mumbai belongs to ALL".
Mumbai belongs to all of India: Mukesh Ambani
Will protect north Indians in Mumbai: RSS
Mumbai belongs to all of India: Chidambaram
From Master-Blasters to Richest Industrialist, and Nationalist orgainsation to Central govt ministers, everybody is behind Mumbai, and in name of National Integration & Constituational rights claiming 'Mumbai belongs to All'. But... does anybody bothers to ask Mumbai & Mumbaikars what they feel about it? Does Mumbai wants more people, or rather can it sustain more incoming population? Would it be able to provide basic facilities for all new population adding rapidly to city.
Mumbai formed in 18th century has seen rapid growth in last century and is now most populated city in World (List of cities proper by population). According to the 2001 census, the population of Mumbai was 11,914,398. According to extrapolations carried out by the World Gazetteer in 2008, Mumbai has a population of 13,662,885. Such high population is creating huge demands for basic amenities like Housing, Food, Water, Roads, Transport, Drainage. The government is struggling hard to provide all these basic needs to high population. House prices are peak high in Mumbai. Condition seems so worse that Mumbai didn't find place in top 100 cities considered for quality of living (List of cities by quality of living). The deteriorating quality of living is giving rise to Slums. City already hosts largest slums in Asia and estimated population living there could be up to 1 Million! Many illiegal immigrants adding the population number and also create problems about social security & crime. In 2008 crime rate increased by 5.4 per cent.
This was about people living below quality of living standards. Even Middle-class & Upper-class population is suffering from problems like lack of proper housing, educational facility, roads, food & water supply. The local government had to carry out campaign urging people to conserve water. Another major problem that is growing is creating opportunity for employment. Large existing & daily growing population is creating huge demand of employment, and lack of opportunities is creating unemployment, which fuels politics & endangers social harmony, which city has seen in recent times.
So before making statements like 'Mumbai for all', our respected leaders & politicians should try to see the problems Mumbai is facing due to ever growing population. Even state govt had taken good initiative by providing employment opportunities to local population first, but politics succeeded over sensible decision, and government had to withdraw the decision in 'respect' to constitution. Now that state govt in pressure from central govt given free entry for all in Mumbai it should atleast put warning boards at city entrance like -
"Welcome to Mumbai, as per constitutional right nobody can stop you from coming, but don't ask for house as we have no more space to build house for you. And yes... also try to manage without water as we are having huge shortage of water supply (even Master Blaster said that on TV). Welcome again. Mumbai belongs to ALL".
Sunday, 24 January 2010
New TV viewing trends
While we in India have started to use digital television for watching our TV programmes from 2004 with launch of DTH & Digital cable, and digital TV has pick up in recent years after launch of TV services by several operators, here's some new trends emerging for watching television (in western countries). Many people are getting habituated with new trends, and in coming days this would completely change the TV viewing habits.
PVR: In India, TATASKY have introduced PVR to the TV market, but in Western countries PVR is becoming essential device for catching up TV programmes. Many viewers now record programmes in hard drive inside STB, so they can watch & enjoy the programmes at their convenient time. The programme can be scheduled to record manually, through EPG. Whole series of the programme can be scheduled so any episodes are not missed.
NPVR (Catch-up TV): It could be just like PVR, except the programmes are not stored in customer's STB, but stored on the network by operator. Customers of the operator can watch the programmes On-Demand at their convenient time and have not bother of scheduling the recording for their favourite programmes.
Push VOD: Video On Demand (VOD) is a popular term about Video delivery service by DTH/IPTV where customers can order video (Movies/TV Programmes). Push VOD is similar to VOD, except here customers don’t order VOD, but VOD content is downloaded by operator in STB’s hard drive. The content can be rented until the offer period, after which the content is automatically deleted from STB. This service is beneficial for HD videos in IPTV where HD video live streaming is not possible due to high bandwidth requirements.
Online TV: Many Channel broadcasters are providing web-consoles (web based applications) on which their programmes can be watched. Many consoles now also offer live channels. So Live TV can be directly watched on PC, and TV is no more needed to watch programmes.
Home Networking & Game console: Game console providers like Sony Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo are joining hands with TV operators to provide TV content through game console through broadband or home networking. Over the broadband, the game consoles are connected to TV operator’s network and Live TV is streamed directly to console. In home networking, the recorded content from PVR STB can be watched on console within home network
PVR: In India, TATASKY have introduced PVR to the TV market, but in Western countries PVR is becoming essential device for catching up TV programmes. Many viewers now record programmes in hard drive inside STB, so they can watch & enjoy the programmes at their convenient time. The programme can be scheduled to record manually, through EPG. Whole series of the programme can be scheduled so any episodes are not missed.
NPVR (Catch-up TV): It could be just like PVR, except the programmes are not stored in customer's STB, but stored on the network by operator. Customers of the operator can watch the programmes On-Demand at their convenient time and have not bother of scheduling the recording for their favourite programmes.
Push VOD: Video On Demand (VOD) is a popular term about Video delivery service by DTH/IPTV where customers can order video (Movies/TV Programmes). Push VOD is similar to VOD, except here customers don’t order VOD, but VOD content is downloaded by operator in STB’s hard drive. The content can be rented until the offer period, after which the content is automatically deleted from STB. This service is beneficial for HD videos in IPTV where HD video live streaming is not possible due to high bandwidth requirements.
Online TV: Many Channel broadcasters are providing web-consoles (web based applications) on which their programmes can be watched. Many consoles now also offer live channels. So Live TV can be directly watched on PC, and TV is no more needed to watch programmes.
Home Networking & Game console: Game console providers like Sony Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo are joining hands with TV operators to provide TV content through game console through broadband or home networking. Over the broadband, the game consoles are connected to TV operator’s network and Live TV is streamed directly to console. In home networking, the recorded content from PVR STB can be watched on console within home network
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Ridiculous channel packages by TATASKY
DTH operator TATASKY is well known for its after sales service & good Customer Care service. But one thing many of its customers agree (as per different forums) is that channel packaging by TATASKY is worst.
Their move to remove Sports channel out of base pack was welcomed by many saying that this would bring base price lower, and also avoid burden on un-interested customers. But later it introduced Life-style Gold pack and putting all new channels like Imagine, Colors in it, but what was ridiculous that FTA channels like 9X were also added in that pack, and even business news channel from UTV. This channels were no way related to lifestyle! And many other DTH operator do provide this GEC channels in base pack with other Hindi GEC.
Later they introduced many pack a Cosmo pack for English movie channels like TCM, World Movies, etc. It looked fine as package contained special genre channels, but again TATASKY made a strange decision of adding business news channel ET NOW to this pack. This would be most stupid decision about channel packaging by any pay TV operator.
Customers should lodge a protest about such packaging to TATASKY, and better TATASKY should explain about their ridiculous packaging. This type of channel packaging is causing lot of discontent among customers, and TATASKY should act on it before it is late (i.e. customers shift to better options).
Their move to remove Sports channel out of base pack was welcomed by many saying that this would bring base price lower, and also avoid burden on un-interested customers. But later it introduced Life-style Gold pack and putting all new channels like Imagine, Colors in it, but what was ridiculous that FTA channels like 9X were also added in that pack, and even business news channel from UTV. This channels were no way related to lifestyle! And many other DTH operator do provide this GEC channels in base pack with other Hindi GEC.
Later they introduced many pack a Cosmo pack for English movie channels like TCM, World Movies, etc. It looked fine as package contained special genre channels, but again TATASKY made a strange decision of adding business news channel ET NOW to this pack. This would be most stupid decision about channel packaging by any pay TV operator.
Customers should lodge a protest about such packaging to TATASKY, and better TATASKY should explain about their ridiculous packaging. This type of channel packaging is causing lot of discontent among customers, and TATASKY should act on it before it is late (i.e. customers shift to better options).
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