Which DTH offers the best deal for HD entertainment and movie channels
Hindi GEC and Movie channels
Apart from Airtel Digital TV missing out on Life OK HD, all channels are available on all platforms.
Airtel Digital TV just sneaks into top spot, with the least expensive channel package.
In that regard, Videocon d2h offers all these HD channels in a pack that costs Rs 305 per month, the new Gold Entertainment HD pack. Contrary to general opinion, Dish TV is the most expensive if you want just the Hindi entertainment and movie channels, with the applicable HD World pack priced at Rs 399. While it is a good thing to have simple packages, this in-flexibility and limited package range does put Dish TV at a disadvantage. Tata Sky incidentally costs less than Dish TV, if you wish
English GEC and Movie channels
Primarily, there are three popular movie channels - Star Movies HD, Zee Studio HD and Movies Now HD. The three new HD channels - HBO Defined, HBO Hits and Romedy Now+ are still not available on all platforms. Surprisingly, there are only two real English entertainment channels in HD - Star World HD and Star World Premiere HD. Quite a shame really, and this massive gap needs to be bridged. The broadcasters certainly need to bring in the HD versions of the other popular channels like Comedy Central, Zee Cafe, FX, Fox Crime and AXN. I do agree that they have been taking it slightly slow, because of claimed bandwidth limitations that many DTH operators are facing, hence the inability or unwillingness to fill up existing space with channels right away.
Dish TV and Tata Sky are carrying the HBO premium channels - Hits and Defined, while only Dish TV is carrying Romedy Now+ (at the time of writing). Airtel Digital TV, on its part, only offers the standard definition versions of the HBO premium channels.
In terms of the cost impact, Dish TV offers all the channels, and expectedly, costs the maximum as well. Tata Sky misses out on Romedy Now+, for the moment. Videocon d2h, often claimed as the “affordable” option to Tata Sky costs only Rs 3 lesser than Tata Sky, but offers 3 channels lesser as well. It is funny to note that this so-called affordable DTH is thrashed by Airtel Digital TV, which costs Rs 199 lesser for the exact same number of channels.
On paper, Dish TV is perhaps the best choice, if you need the English entertainment and movie channels. And we must complement them for being the only platform, at least till now, to actively add new channels in this genre - first to add the HBO premium HD channels and the first to add the Romedy Now HD channel.
At the moment, Airtel Digital TV and Videocon d2h are missing three channels, and that puts them out of the reckoning for the time being. We do hope that these two service providers solve this little jigsaw and offer a more wholesome package for channels in this genre.
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Hindi GEC and Movie channels
Apart from Airtel Digital TV missing out on Life OK HD, all channels are available on all platforms.
Airtel Digital TV just sneaks into top spot, with the least expensive channel package.
In that regard, Videocon d2h offers all these HD channels in a pack that costs Rs 305 per month, the new Gold Entertainment HD pack. Contrary to general opinion, Dish TV is the most expensive if you want just the Hindi entertainment and movie channels, with the applicable HD World pack priced at Rs 399. While it is a good thing to have simple packages, this in-flexibility and limited package range does put Dish TV at a disadvantage. Tata Sky incidentally costs less than Dish TV, if you wish
English GEC and Movie channels
Primarily, there are three popular movie channels - Star Movies HD, Zee Studio HD and Movies Now HD. The three new HD channels - HBO Defined, HBO Hits and Romedy Now+ are still not available on all platforms. Surprisingly, there are only two real English entertainment channels in HD - Star World HD and Star World Premiere HD. Quite a shame really, and this massive gap needs to be bridged. The broadcasters certainly need to bring in the HD versions of the other popular channels like Comedy Central, Zee Cafe, FX, Fox Crime and AXN. I do agree that they have been taking it slightly slow, because of claimed bandwidth limitations that many DTH operators are facing, hence the inability or unwillingness to fill up existing space with channels right away.
Dish TV and Tata Sky are carrying the HBO premium channels - Hits and Defined, while only Dish TV is carrying Romedy Now+ (at the time of writing). Airtel Digital TV, on its part, only offers the standard definition versions of the HBO premium channels.
In terms of the cost impact, Dish TV offers all the channels, and expectedly, costs the maximum as well. Tata Sky misses out on Romedy Now+, for the moment. Videocon d2h, often claimed as the “affordable” option to Tata Sky costs only Rs 3 lesser than Tata Sky, but offers 3 channels lesser as well. It is funny to note that this so-called affordable DTH is thrashed by Airtel Digital TV, which costs Rs 199 lesser for the exact same number of channels.
On paper, Dish TV is perhaps the best choice, if you need the English entertainment and movie channels. And we must complement them for being the only platform, at least till now, to actively add new channels in this genre - first to add the HBO premium HD channels and the first to add the Romedy Now HD channel.
At the moment, Airtel Digital TV and Videocon d2h are missing three channels, and that puts them out of the reckoning for the time being. We do hope that these two service providers solve this little jigsaw and offer a more wholesome package for channels in this genre.
Which DTH offers the best deal for HD entertainment and movie channels - LCD TVs | Plasma TV & Televisions | ThinkDigit Features
