Discussion In which year did you got your first DTH/Cable connections?

[Amit1079]

I am 21 bro. Born in the year 2000.

Iam 42 only

 

[Mayur]

Installed Tata Sky in 2006 Since Launch That Time peoples not know What is The DTH & STB Device I am among First Peoples in my area
who shifted Cable To DTH.
before That using Cable since 2004 To 2006.On Sansui Hard Rock 2000 TV model which One3 brought 2004.

 

[PowerStar]

Big dish was using local cable operators bro.

Satellite
It's FTA dish bro ,16feet i think (don't remember properly)

 

[ajsdr08]

Till 2000, we used DD analog lengthy antenna. In 2001 only, we took cable connection. In analog cable times, we got Star Plus, Sony, Zee cinema etc. to Tamil channels. In 2014, our cable operator joined tactv. In 2016, Tactv became digital. In 2017-18, our cable joined Akshaya Cable Vision, leaving tactv. Due to unsatisfactory talks of LCO, I got d2h in June 2020.

 

[Jaffer7080]

Satellite
It's FTA dish bro ,16feet i think (don't remember properly)

Yes bro in my building cable operator connected 2 big dish daily they used to come don't know what they were doing.

 

[vikassaddyan]

before 2007 cricket world cup..tata sky..

 

[Mr.Bhat]

My story of the watching started in 1972-75 as I remember...Small 12 inch black and white TV ... Connected by VHF antenna which j tied to a big tree height of about 100 feet ...Long cable about 80 meeters from antenna booster...One day checked in color TV and got color telecast...On that day itself bought Philips TV that served decades..Once I got color transmission within a year installed S band DD dish..Got 2 channels of DD..In 1979 bought 12feet mesh dish..There my sat tracking journey started..My self installed 24 c band LNB tracking 14 sats in single dish...I have watched zee5 from its launch day...Many channels were FTA...Once Ku band transmission started bought an imported LNB...Ii was the first person to buy a digital stb at that time by paying 19500/-i was watching WCW on TNT free..
DTH Journey started from 2004 when Dish TV started...Later kin 2006 Tatasky...In between reliance sun direct airtel DTH...
Now no sat tracking from 3 years...Still I have tatasky HD connection...Bought Binge plus once it started...
My age is 66 years...
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[sarube]

2007 my first DTH Tatasky
Around 2010 Big TV
Around 2012 Airtel Dth
At present 2 Airtel and 1 Tatasky and 1 digital cable TCCL Hd settop box

 

[Amit1079]

I too watched serial on zeetv which casted Neena gupta from a launch day itself forgot name
I think it was 1st serial on zeetv

Those days were really golden enjoyable days

Without cable connection also we got channels by small cut on others neighbors cable keeping our wire any type near it and if connected to TV in which we watched only 1 channel DD national we got cable all channels
Watchable clearity

Really missing those days

 

[RLOA]

Once I got color transmission within a year installed S band DD dish..Got 2 channels of DD..In 1979 bought 12feet mesh dish..There my sat tracking journey started..My self installed 24 c band LNB tracking 14 sats in single dish...I have watched zee5 from its launch day...Many channels were FTA...Once Ku band transmission started bought an imported LNB...Ii was the first person to buy a digital stb at that time by paying 19500/-i was watching WCW on TNT free..

Thanks for sharing your memories!

Do you have more memories from Analogue satellite TV era? How easy/difficult did it use to be to get all the necessary hardware? For how many years after switchover to digital were you able to receive the channels unencrypted?