News Dish TV to move STB biz to wholly-owned subsidiary

[Deepu]

Dish TV has decided to move its set-top box (STB) business to a wholly-owned subsidiary, a step that it believes will allow it to make some savings on licence fee. The subsidiary, Xingmedia Distribution Pvt Ltd, will also accommodate other non-core businesses of Dish TV like dish antenna and allied services. For direct-to-home (DTH) companies, the major investment consumption is in STBs. Thus, Dish TV will have its capex mainly in the form of STBs residing in the subsidiary company. Debt will also be transferred to Xingmedia.

Dish TV has a net subscriber base of 11.7 million, according to data available till 30 June 2014.

Read more at: http://www.televisionpost.com/dth/dish-tv-to-move-stb-biz-to-wholly-owned-subsidiary/ | TelevisionPost.com

 

[IndianMascot]

Better decision to save some tax and provide additional attention towards their products.

 

[DashMajor]

Great I think now dishtv will join d2h on buggy box category

 

[Justin Jolly]

Hope they will launch some quality boxes, not like d2h. But still waiting to exchange my HD box with the new DVR, which they are planning to launch.

 

[Technoglitch]

box shouldn't be buggy or substandard just because it might costs less.

 

[DashMajor]

box shouldn't be buggy or substandard just because it might costs less.

So Indian's are capable to create good hardware with low cost. I think Videocon is the big name in this country and they're the sole dominant in Local Electronics Manufacturing if they not able to justifies their STBs then forget dishtv as ESSEL Group is no where in Electronics Bazaar.

 

[Technoglitch]

So Indian's are capable to create good hardware with low cost. I think Videocon is the big name in this country and they're the sole dominant in Local Electronics Manufacturing if they not able to justifies their STBs then forget dishtv as ESSEL Group is no where in Electronics Bazaar.

outsource the production to third party and sell under dish brand

 

[IndianMascot]

Indians are capable but unless production are not driven properly, output will be like d2h boxes.

 

[DashMajor]

Hope they achieve something great as of now no issues in their Boxes.

 

[IndianMascot]

I think switching to NDS or Cisco for software only will solve Dish TV issue as i didn't read any fault about them.