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MUMBAI: Efforts have been on to spur Indian companies to manufacture cable TV set top boxes (STB) domestically - the government has been encouraging and nudging the private sector to do so. The Mumbai-based ABS Seven Star group - which runs a health channel and a cable TV network in Mumbai - seems to have taken the bait. It has set up a new company called ABS Productions Pvt Ltd which has designed standard definition (SD), high definition (HD) and hybrid STBS - both MPEG2 and MPEG4 - and contracted Videocon group company Trend Electronics to manufacture them at its Aurangabad plant.
“Trend Electronics also makes STBs for Videocond2h and it has very good experience doing so. Hence we have struck up a manufacturing alliance with it," says ABS Seven Star CMD Atul Saraf.
Saraf has hired a 20 member team for the STB manufacturing initiative - 14 of these are working on the software while the rest will be looking after the hardware. While the manufacturing unit has a 30,000 STBs per day capacity, its first order will roll out of the assembly lines by 15 May. “The first order is for our cable TV network ABS Seven Star, which is close to 50,000 boxes,” he says.
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“Trend Electronics also makes STBs for Videocond2h and it has very good experience doing so. Hence we have struck up a manufacturing alliance with it," says ABS Seven Star CMD Atul Saraf.
Saraf has hired a 20 member team for the STB manufacturing initiative - 14 of these are working on the software while the rest will be looking after the hardware. While the manufacturing unit has a 30,000 STBs per day capacity, its first order will roll out of the assembly lines by 15 May. “The first order is for our cable TV network ABS Seven Star, which is close to 50,000 boxes,” he says.
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