About one-fourth of 1.6 crore households missed the deadline of television digitisation on Monday in 38 cities. But they may get a short transition period for switchover to Set Top Boxes depending on local conditions. ...
12:36 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the Central government to ensure that analog channels are not switched off in the state till April 5, 2013. Justice Abdul Nazeer granted time to the Union government to file its objections to a petition seeking extension of the March 31, 2013 deadline for installing Set Top Boxes (STB) filed by Mysore District Cable Operators' Association. ...
12:40 AM, Apr 02, 2013
The deadline set by the government for Cable TV digitisation in 38 cities across 14 states ends on Monday. Television sets without set top boxes would go blank. These cities are part of the second phase of digitisation as government claimed 67 per cent digitisation had been achieved in these places. ...
08:50 AM, Apr 01, 2013
The deadline set by Government for Cable TV digitisation in 38 cities across fourteen states will end on Monday and television sets without set top boxes would go blank. ...
11:13 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Watching cable and satellite TV may turn expensive with the government proposing to double import duty on set top boxes (STBs) to 10 per cent but domestic manufacturers have welcomed the move. Reacting to Finance Minister P Chidambaram's announcement to hike import duty on STBs from the existing 5 per cent, DTH Operators Association of India President Harit Nagpal said "the increase seems out of place". ...
08:12 PM, Feb 28, 2013
movies and shows to a TV set this year. ...
11:23 AM, Feb 13, 2013
The digitisation change in the Indian TV landscape brings to fore Darwin's theory of natural evolution by natural selection. Natural selection is a gradual, non-random process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers. ...
12:34 PM, Jan 11, 2013
New Delhi: Television sets without set top boxes (STBs) in hundreds of households across Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata went blank as the deadline for switch over to cable TV digitisation ended on October 31 midnight. People watching various programmes faced a TV blackout when the clock struck 12. However, in some areas of Kolkata, the television sets without STBs were found to be working. In Mumbai, nearly 20 per cent...
10:09 AM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: The deadline for cable operators to switch to digital TV ends on Wednesday in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. What it essentially means is that if you don't have a set top box, then you can't watch TV starting Wednesday. This is the first of the three-stage process where cable TVs across the country must migrate to digital signals to be distributed through set top boxes. Official data...
10:22 AM, Oct 31, 2012
Mumbai: A government review has revealed that in Mumbai, 50 per cent of cable TV homes have already been installed with set top boxes. In Mumbai, there is an estimated requirement of 34.85 lakh set top boxes and so far 17.07 lakh set top boxes have been installed. The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2011 has made it mandatory for switchover of the existing analogue Cable TV networks to...
09:30 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Mumbai: From July 1, it will become mandatory for all TV viewers across the four metros to get digital set top boxes. But even as the process of mandatory conversion of analog cable signals to digital continues across the metros, industry experts have flagged off the need for introducing and implementing some critical steps to ensure the revival of the television industry, which has come under steep financial strain despite...
08:58 AM, May 01, 2012
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