EntMnt Xclusive Cable Digitization Phase II achieves 75% target.

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In AP Analogue singals has been stopped as per schedule,People are rush to catch STBs but they are very less to full fill all the customers requirements.

 

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In the war between cable operators and the government, consumers are finding themselves on the receiving end, literally.

Already annoyed over their TV screens going blank, lakhs of non-set-top box (STB) cable TV subscribers in the city faced another setback when operators raised prices of the in demand set-top boxes (STB) by Rs. 200 on Monday. Caught between the devil (blackout) and the deep sea (costly STBs), they finally preferred burning a hole in their pocket than remaining off air.

Set-top boxes were available at Rs. 999 till March 31, but on Monday, when over 2.5 lakh TV sets were blacked out, their prices were suddenly hiked to Rs. 1,199. STBs that were a scarce commodity till two days ago, were flooded in cable TV market on Monday.

After blackout, STB price blues for Lucknow viewers - Hindustan Times

 

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A day after the deadline for the 38-city cable TV digitisation drive expired, 74 per cent of the total 1.6 crore television sets across these cities across the country have gone digital. Barring Bangalore and Mysore in Karnataka, and four cities in Gujarat — both States where the process has been stayed by courts — analog sets have more or less gone blank as of April 1.

In Bangalore, around 70.82 per cent of the TV connections are digital, of which direct-to-home (DTH) accounts for 20.84 per cent, according to statistics provided by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Digital coverage in Mysore is around 52.73 per cent, leaving around 1.03 lakh of the total 2.19 lakh television connections analog.

These numbers, which were compiled on April 1, account for both cable connections where set-top boxes have been seeded and DTH connections.


Karnataka still lags behind national average - The Hindu

 

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Govt gives 15 days grace for phase II cable TV digitisation

Indiantelevision.com's > Digital Edge> Govt gives 15 days grace for phase II cable TV digitisation

 

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So, official extension starts now

 

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They are being pretty direct. DTH TV operators have categorically stated that they can definitely fill the gap should there be any shortage of set top boxes in any city under phase II of the government mandated digitsation of cable TV.

“Digitisation does not need to be postponed,” says DTH Association of India president Harit Nagpal emphatically “ We have been digitizing the TV industry for the past seven years. We have national contracts with the broadcasters, which we keep working on with them. We have adequate stocks of STBs and trained manpower to meet any demand which crops up in any city should cable TV operators not be in a position to deliver the set top boxes to their customers.”



Indiantelevision.com's > Digital Edge> DTH Assn’s Harit Nagpal: “We can plug the shortfall in STBs in Phase II”