64 slots for TV, 21 radio channels in DD's free DTH: Government

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NEW DELHI: There are 64 slots for TV channels and 21 radio channels in Doordarshan's free-to-air Direct-to-Home (DTH) service 'DD Free Dish', Lok Sabha was informed today.

Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said hardware installation of DTH platform of upto 112 TV channels has been completed.

"Presently, there are 64 TV channels and steps have been taken to add 48 new channels. The capacity would be increased to 250 TV channels as part of approved 12th plan," he said during Question Hour.

Prasar Bharati faced issues in implementing Conditional Access System (CAS), which is a part of upgraded system.

Rathore said Prasar Bharati has decided to adopt the Indian Conditional Access System (Indian CAS) which is being finalised by Department of Electronics and Information Technology.

"In addition, Department of Space has agreed in-principle to provide additional transponders on new GSAT 15 satellite required for upgradation to 250 TV channels," he said.

 

[Mudasir 4K]

NEW DELHI: There are 64 slots for TV channels and 21 radio channels in Doordarshan's free-to-air Direct-to-Home (DTH) service 'DD Free Dish', Lok Sabha was informed today.

Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said hardware installation of DTH platform of upto 112 TV channels has been completed.

"Presently, there are 64 TV channels and steps have been taken to add 48 new channels. The capacity would be increased to 250 TV channels as part of approved 12th plan," he said during Question Hour.

Prasar Bharati faced issues in implementing Conditional Access System (CAS), which is a part of upgraded system.

Rathore said Prasar Bharati has decided to adopt the Indian Conditional Access System (Indian CAS) which is being finalised by Department of Electronics and Information Technology.

"In addition, Department of Space has agreed in-principle to provide additional transponders on new GSAT 15 satellite required for upgradation to 250 TV channels," he said.
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DD Free Dish adds 64 slots for TV channel

Hardware installation on the Direct-To-Home (DTH) platform of DD Free Dish has been completed adding 64 new slots for TV channels and 21 radio channels. Doordarshan’s Free-To-Air (FTA) DTH service DD Free Dish will now feature a total of 112 TV channels.

Rajyavardhan Rathore informed the Lok Sabha today that the technical installation was completed.

“Presently, there are 64 TV channels and steps have been taken to add 48 new channels. The capacity would be increased to 250 TV channels as part of approved 12th plan,” he told Parliament.

Prasar Bharati faced issues in implementing Conditional Access System (CAS), which is a part of upgraded system. The minister said Prasar Bharati has decided to adopt the Indian Conditional Access System (Indian CAS) which is being finalised by Department of Electronics and Information Technology.

“In addition, Department of Space has agreed in-principle to provide additional transponders on new GSAT 15 satellite required for upgradation to 250 TV channels,” he said.

In an exclusive interview to NexTV India, C.K Jain, Deputy Director General (DDG), two weeks ago, he revealed that the completion of the digitisation process in India by the end of 2016 will help to upgrade the DD Freedish platform which will feature close to 250 channels.

“We have been trying to keep up with the pace of the market. First and foremost, the project we are envisaging is to upgrade the DD Freedish platform. Right now it is carrying 64 channels but we are planning to move close to 112 channels in the near future. We are also migrating our technology from mpeg2 to mpeg4 but ensuring that the existing subscribers continue to receive the signal. In fact, to ensure that the customers who have mpeg2 Set-Top-Boxes (STBs) continue to receive the channels, we are migrating in phases. First the mpeg2 channels will remain and we will add the mpeg4 channels. Mpeg4 is a natural transition. All other DTH platforms have already moved to this technology. We were constraint by the existing subscribers,” said Jain.

He added: “That is one area we are looking at and we are further upgrading our platform to 250 channels in the next 2 years and all STB’s by that time will be mpeg 4.”
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64 slots for TV, 21 radio channels in DD's free DTH: Government

 

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Doordarshan’s free-to-air (FTA) direct-to-home (DTH) Freedish, which currently has only 64 slots for television channels and is expected to go up to 112 by March-end, has received a shot in the arm for upgradation to 250 TV channels under the 12th Plan.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley told Parliament that the Department of Space had agreed in principle to provide additional transponders on new GSAT 15 satellite required for 250 TV channels
Meanwhile, he said that DD was facing issues in implementing Conditional Access System (CAS), which is a part of upgraded system. But it had now decided to adopt Indian Conditional Access System (Indian CAS), which is being finalised by Department of Electronics and Information Technology. As was reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, DD is acquiring the Bangalore based ByDesign India’s CAS.
Late last year, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) approved a proposal by ByDesign India to develop an Indian conditional access system. ByDesign was to receive a support amount of Rs 19.79 crore from DeitY to develop the new system in association with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
The ByDesign model is totally indigenous and built for DVB-C setup. This CAS solution will enable broadcasters to control access to their services by viewers, and thereby enabling them to extend their business models to subscription based schemes.
Apart from the TV channels, Freedish also beams 21 All India Radio (AIR) channels.
DD director general C Lalrosanga had earlier told Indiantelevision.com that the DTH player will switch over to MPEG 4 from the current MPEG 2 in two phases. “The first phase may begin by early next month,” he informed.
Meanwhile even as regional channels of DD switched over to INSAT 4B, DD’s main channels have also shifted to GSAT 10, which was launched in September 2012. The regional channels were shifted in view of End of Life (EOL) of INSAT-3A as declared by Indian Space Research Organisation. Four new transponders have been provided for these channels on INSAT-4B by ISRO.
It has 12 Ku-Band, 12 C-Band and 6 lower extended C-Band Transponders.
Now GSAT 10 started transmission on C-Band transponders.
The channels that have been switched to GSAT 10 are DD National, DD News, DD Bharati, DD Sports, DD Urdu, DD India, Rajya Sabha TV and DD HD.

Department of Space sources told this website that GSAT 15 satellite will ultimately accommodate Freedish, as it has more capacity of transponders to provide more bandwidth and better coverage.
GSAT-15 satellite, launched recently, has planned its mission for 12 years and this satellite will be located at same direction of INSAT-3A / INSAT-4B satellite at 93.5° East Longitude.
GSAT-15 carries 24 Ku-band transponders with 36 Mhz high bandwidth.
GSAT-15 also has two GAGAN navigational payloads and 2 Ku-Band beacons. This satellite will be use mainly for Direct to Home services, radio navigation services and VSAT services.