Airtel DTH or Tatasky or shall i stick with cable?

[vsriram]

which one is better Airtel dth or videocon D2H?

I dont know about support issues - I presume that you need to activate only once a year after that you dont need to call support unless your STB goes bad. rigt?

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Which one is better Airtel or D2H?

I am not sure about support issues - I guess if you get a good installation, you need to call support only once a year (for recharge) or if your STB goes bad.

 

[kooldude]

Been using Airtel for more than a year.Its good.D2H Picture quality is not upto the standards.Airtel customer care is very average.In case you face issues you can mail nodal officer.

 

[Jignesh]

Go for Airtel or D2H for regional channels.

 

[Daddycool]

It all depends on you. From your first post, I believe you are looking for best value rather than best quality. I also feel your family needs for channels may be so diverse that any DTH would cost you far more than what you are currently paying. If you want digital TV at SD resolution, need many channels and don't want to pay too much for it, you must consider getting a STB from your cable operator too.I get my TV that way at Rs 225/-. If I had to get all those channels from any DTH it would have cost me a lot more.Not the best solution in terms of quality but VFM and no grainy picture as with the analog cable.

 

[mikesingh]

i dont have HD LCD TV. I have a Normal CRT TV.
Sorry, bud! You better go get one, pronto! I prefer plasma as compared to LCD because of better contrast ratio and ability to render deeper blacks, better color accuracy and saturation and, better motion tracking (little or no motion lag in fast moving images). But beware, a plasma runs on >250 watts. But with a little more energy consumption what you're getting to see far outweighs this disadvantage.

You don't know what you're missing! It's no use buying an HD STB and watching it on an SD TV. You'll find no difference. But I warn you that once you've experienced high definition whether on Tata Sky or Blue Ray, you'll never want to see standard definition content again!! I mean it's a different world altogether!

But yes, as some posters have mentioned, there's not enough true HD content on TV as yet. Dish TV claims 30 HD channels. That's a lot of hot air because most of these are just up sampled and NOT true HD. National Geographic HD, Discovery HD, ESPN HD and Star Sports HD are in true HD format. So was DD sports for the Commonwealth games.

So let's hope we get some more HD broadcasts in the near future. In the meanwhile, enjoy Blue Ray on your plasma! It'll just blow you away!

Cheers!
mike.

 

[karthikeyansh]

Better to buy Reliance Big DTH, it has 21 tamil channels and Telugu channels (dont know count) too ...Finally better price.....All the best for not choosing Airtel and Tata Sky!!!!!!!

 

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