In current NTO era, many operators have signed RIO for various bouquet with broadcasters but not giving all channels part of it. Airtel provides Colors Wala Value Plus HD pack but does not have MTV HD, MTV Beats HD, Vh1 HD and instead offers their SD feed in this bouquet maybe thru some understanding with indiacast citing bandwidth issue. Similar issue for Family HD pack of zee where Zee Zest HD unavailable but SD feed part of it. In d2h , tata sky, dish tv too similar issue is there
Do not know how broadcasters r okay with HD channels being unavailable despite RIO being signed. Pre NTO operators paid in advance to broadcasters and all channels part of RIO bouquet were made available though there were other issues then too but now channels part of bouquet unavailable. I understand that operators r free to skip channels but then some other way should b worked out. This way both viewers, broadcasters losing out