Discussion From 1st Feb avoid pay channels and start increasing the TRP of FTA channels #avoid pay channels soap

[Siva]

Those are MRPs. They are not the actual prices. After discount, those prices will reduce. Just wait for a month. Final prices of DTH/MSO bouquets will be out in some time.

DTH/MSO can't offer their own bouquets by splitting broadcaster bouquets. They must offer their bouquets by considering Al-a-carte prices of channels, and that's obviously going to be costly. That is why the DPOs like Airtel are offering Value base packs, where they club multiple genres of channels with A-la-carte prices and probably reduce their share of NCF to arrive at a reasonable price. I doubt if anyone takes these packs, considering we don't have any choice in them and most of the channels they offer are useless.

 

[shreyaskini]

I presume you are generalizing without actually checking the new prices for previous pack/channel lists. If you check, you will know the reality. Just as an example, operaters were providing bouquets with grouping on genre - say all english movies for 50-80rs. Now, try to add all english movie channels and see the price & you will see the difference.

Just to quote our specific example - my parents TV connection, we used to pay 150rs on airtel for all kannada + kannada HD pack which included star movies, sports 1 & couple of other english channels together (as part of the 51rs kannada HD pack - some 8 channels in total). Now, just for the normal SD kannada channels, by selecting individual broadcaster's cheapest kannada language bouquets, its going to ~300rs. Going alacarte is not a wise option as the price goes up further.

I am pretty sure the case will be similar with other users as well.

For most cable users this will be pretty beneficial since before you had to subscribe to SD package to get the HD pack. Most would end up paying 400-500. Now, the arguement is that you were getting more channels then so why should we pay just slightly less for very very few channels. They just don't feel there's value for money in the new rule and it's very much true.
As for packs being beneficial, Well, that depends on what you watch. If you watch channels from multiple broadcasters like many here do they're hit the most. Package or alacarte such people will suffer a lot. Unfortunately TRAI didn't think of that correctly. If you watch just Sony, Star Plus and let's say for regional only Colors Kannada HD then getting packages will not be beneficial even if they offer more channels that you're likely not to watch!

 

[DreamFan]

Everyone here are continuously blaming Star Network, but Sony also an another culprit. Just check their channel packs price.... It's tooo much high. It should be better to avoid Sony also.
CHANNEL PRICES

 

[Hassan Syed]

FTA channels are enough for entertainment. This new rule is a killer for pay TV channels. Only few pay TV channels are useful

 

[venky]

Not sure if its a relevant point, but major Cable network Kerala Vision in kerala is pushing their local channels in FTA base pack and counting them. Their base pack 1 for 150 rupees don't have any Malayalam FTA except Kerala Vision (their satellite channel). They are pushing their local channels including info and count as 100. This is to make sure that customers have to shell out 170 and go for their next level base pack to get Malayalam FTA.
Is this against the rule? How can a local channel and info channel counted?

 

[shreyaskini]

Not sure if its a relevant point, but major Cable network Kerala Vision in kerala is pushing their local channels in FTA base pack and counting them. Their base pack 1 for 150 rupees don't have any Malayalam FTA except Kerala Vision (their satellite channel). They are pushing their local channels including info and count as 100. This is to make sure that customers have to shell out 170 and go for their next level base pack to get Malayalam FTA.
Is this against the rule? How can a local channel and info channel counted?

FTA base pack itself isn't mandatory. If they force you to get it then it's illegal. Doubt local channels in fta pack is!! Since they likely declared it fta it shouldn't be illegal either.

 

[Raju lal]

Not sure if its a relevant point, but major Cable network Kerala Vision in kerala is pushing their local channels in FTA base pack and counting them. Their base pack 1 for 150 rupees don't have any Malayalam FTA except Kerala Vision (their satellite channel). They are pushing their local channels including info and count as 100. This is to make sure that customers have to shell out 170 and go for their next level base pack to get Malayalam FTA.
Is this against the rule? How can a local channel and info channel counted?

Maximum NCF including Gst is 154 rs. Within that we can have 100 FTA channels without increase in cost. 25 DD channels are mandatory. Then left 75 channels are choosing by us as per the availability in our platforms. Operators cannot decide it.If we choose 100(75+25) channels or less the ncf remains same.

 

[vibin]

If dd sports telecast cricket matches in all dth then there is no need of other sports channels

 

[Raju lal]

If dd sports telecast cricket matches in all dth then there is no need of other sports channels

But DD sports isn't available during match time.

 

[venky]

FTA base pack itself isn't mandatory. If they force you to get it then it's illegal. Doubt local channels in fta pack is!! Since they likely declared it fta it shouldn't be illegal either.

No local channels are declared as FTA by Trai rt, also Info Channel counted as 1 channel.

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