Introduction
Reliance Digital TV is one of the largest Indian pay TV providers, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to commercial and residential customers in India. It uses MPEG-4 digital compression technology, transmitted using MEASAT-3 91.5°East. It is the 5th DTH service launched in India.
Reliance ADAG launched their DTH service on 19 August 2008.
Reliance digital TV limited is a part of Reliance Communications Ltd., a subsidiary of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group founded by the Late Dhirubhai Ambani, the Indian business tycoon and owned by his son Anil Ambani. BIG TV started operations from 19 August 2008 with the slogan "TV Ho Toh BIG Ho" ("If you have a TV, make it BIG"). It currently offers close to 250 channels and many interactive ones, 32 cinema halls (i.e. Pay Per View Cinema Channels) as well as many Radio channels. The company plans to increase the number of channels in the near future to 400 and begin High Definition (HD) broadcast. There are also plans to introduce services like i-Stock, i-News and other such interactive services in the future.
Technical Details
Reliance BIG TV's launch in August deployed the MPEG4 technology. MPEG4 technology can support HD TV and not MPEG2 which is used by the earlier entrants in the DTH industry.
The MPEG4 technology helps to broadcast up to 35 to 40 channels per transponder. With 12 transponders they are able to broadcast over 400 channels. They are currently utilizing only 9 of their transponders to broadcast over 230 channels
Transponder Details
Reliance Digital TV is using MEASAT-3 91.5°East and presently broadcasting from 9 TPs in MPEG4 - DVB S.
Ø 12523 V 30000
Ø 12523 H 30000
Ø 12563 V 30000
Ø 12603 V 30000
Ø 12643 V 30000
Ø 12683 V 30000
Ø 12683 H 27500
Ø 12723 V 30000
Ø 12723 H 30000
Reliance Digital TV HD
Enhanced contrast and saturation give you sharper, brighter and more vivid picture and sound quality than ever before on live television. Enjoy television with digital quality audio and transform your home into a multiplex.
Enjoy the uninterrupted flow of the high-definition signal directly into your HD TV to give you smooth, life-like picture quality.
Reliance Digital TV's HD Set Top-Box comes with revolutionary technology that up-scale all 250 channels into HD like quality with video resolution of 1080p at 50 Hz. Your HD experience can go to the next level with the following channels that broadcast directly in HD
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