Introduction
Dish TV India Limited is an Indian company engaged in the business of providing direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television service, which includes teleport service, customer support and transponder space leasing. Dish TV is a division of Zee Network Enterprise (Essel Group Venture). Dish TV India Limited is ranked # 437 and #5 in the list of media companies in the Fortune India 500 roster of India’s largest corporations in 2011. It uses MPEG-2 digital compression technology, transmitting using NSS-6 Satellite at 95°0. Dish TV's managing director and Head Of Business is Jawahar Goel who is also the promoter of Essel Group and is also the President of Indian Broadcasting Foundation. Zee Network incorporated Dish TV to modernize television (TV) viewing. It provides features such as Electronic Programme Guide (EPG), parental lock, games, 330+ channels and services,[4] interactive TV and movies on demand.
Technical Details
Dish TV uses NSS-6 to broadcast its programs. NSS-6 was launched on 17 December 2002 by European-based satellite provider, New Skies. Dish TV hopped on to NSS-6 from an INSAT satellite in July 2004. The change in the satellite was to increase the channel offering as NSS 6 offered more transponder capacity. However, Dish TV booked additional transponders on the new Asiasat 5 satellite for starting its MPEG-4 based HD services. Dish TV is currently using 5 transponders on Asiasat 5.
Transponder Details
a) NSS 5 – 95.0°East
Ø 11037 H 40700 ¾
Ø 11172 H 27500 ¾
Ø 12535 V 40700 ¾
Ø 12595 H 40700 ¾
Ø 12595 V 40700 5/6
Ø 12647 H 27500 5/6
Ø 12647 V 27500 5/6
Ø 12688 H 27500 5/6
Ø 12688 V 27500 5/6
Ø 12729 V 27500 5/6
b) Asiasat 5 - 100.5°East
Ø 12523 V 40700 2/3
Ø 12581 V 40700 2/3
Ø 12643 V 40700 2/3
Ø 12702 V 40700 ¾
DTH on Wheels
Dish TV also provides mobile satellite TV on vehicles, trains and aircraft.
Dish truHD
Dish TV recently launched its high definition service called Dish truHD. Its major competitors are SUN Direct HD, Tata Sky HD, Airtel Digital TV HD and the Reliance Digital TV. It supports 1080i HD quality. Currently there are 41 HD Services with 12 true HD channels and the rest up-scaled. DISHTV plans to give more HD content to its customers.
Dish truHD+
Dish TV Recently introduces its PVR service which requires an External USB Hard disk drive to be plug into the Set Top Box's USB Port it can provide & support recording space up to 2 TB.
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