I am not at all in this field.. but as I understand, there is a fundamental difference between DTH and OTT platform. The bandwidth requirement on DTH platform depends on number of channels being transmitted and does not depend on number of stb connections. Where as, OTT platform does not transmit any channel as such. If there is no viewer, there is no transmission. The bandwidth requirement on OTT platform depends on number of viewers. So, if there are 1 million viewers, there will be 1 million channels. With fibre optics we are now able to technologically meet the requirement at the cheapest rate in the world. However, even this rate is still expansive to many of consumers and in my view in country of over 1.3 billion population, DTH will continue for some time. With recording facility available in DTH STB, you are able to make any programme available to view at any suitable time.
Personally, I have fibre to home with unlimited data at free of cost provided by my organisation, I am working for. Still I look for recording facility because of Catchup/ VOD facility does not exist in a convenient way. Ease of navigation is key for a good customer experience.
As far as piracy is concerned, all the web series of tech czar like Amazon or Netflix are available to download load. It is beyond capacity of AirTel to stop it. It is just an excuse for not providing the service because of incompetance.
Anand
