Good news for Tata Sky customers

[waveking]

If you have a computer, tv tuner and relevant software, you already have a pvr. Not as convenient as a single box, but you get all the features nonetheless.

I found the following article a few months back. If you don't know how to go about setting up your own pvr, read it.

Saurabh Kumar's technology learnings blog: Intelligent Television Viewing - My PVR setup

That's correct, and this article which I had write back months back still holds good and works for me, though no doubt a single box solution would have been much sleeker, but I do enjoy all the features and can add any which I need.

I have also recently heard of another product called icontrol (.: icontrol :.). I wonder how that is.

-Saurabh

 

[tataskyrocking]

please help me find it out,i cannot find the article

 

[karandeep]

yes same with me.Nothing found..........

 

[grasshoffer]

In the good old analogue days there was this thing called VCR - My dad got one when I was in school and used to watch recorded shows. It was of Sharp.Now if companies bring out cheap digital video tv recorders then we'll not have to wait for these DTH cos to come out with locked and restricted hardware to do the same.Actually I wanted to buy a DVR and even posted in this forum - - - but never got one in the market or the net in India and dumped the plan -only if that vcr was still working.

 

[tech_enthu]

Unfortunately with an external DVR, you have to be around while recording and record only the channel that is watched. STBs with built in DVRs provide additional features: time shift watching, pausing of programs to answer telephone etc. recording of a channel other than the one wtched and programmed recording.I think, TS is confused as to their expansion plans - MPEG2 or MPEG4, or getting additional transponders. To maintain compulsory compatibility with other dth operators, TS will soon have to supply MPG4 stbs. Ithink, they will then supply both vanila stb (basic) and stbr (record) versions.If mpg4 can support 30 channels per transponder, TS's capacity is doubled to 360 channels (30*12).I am sure TS will soon shift to mpeg4 and offer an attractive (!!!) buy back offer.

 

[Kalyan_1980]

I think, TS is confused as to their expansion plans - MPEG2 or MPEG4, or getting additional transponders. To maintain compulsory compatibility with other dth operators, TS will soon have to supply MPG4 stbs. Ithink, they will then supply both vanila stb (basic) and stbr (record) versions.

If mpg4 can support 30 channels per transponder, TS's capacity is doubled to 360 channels (30*12).

I am sure TS will soon shift to mpeg4 and offer an attractive (!!!) buy back offer.

I already red one news,if we fix transcoder in our LNB, then the MPG2 stp will able to receive MPG4 singnal. Then, why not TS give this transcorder to the existing subscriber and goto MPG4 and the new customer will get MPG4 stp.:yahoo:

 

[ajuravi007]

Probably they might have ordered huge number of STB's to the vendor and TS wanted to sell off those things first and then go for MPEG 4 type of STB's

 

[dhoni]

I am sure TS will soon shift to mpeg4 and offer an attractive (!!!) buy back offer.

Distant dream. First they should unlock their stbs to make us watch atleast FTA from other satellites.

 

[SVK]

Probably they might have ordered huge number of STB's to the vendor and TS wanted to sell off those things first and then go for MPEG 4 type of STB's
And what would happen to those large number of MPEG-2 STB's sold. Again it will come back to them, if there is need to replace it by MPEG-4 STB's.
I don't think in near future Tata Sky (or DISH TV) will adopt MPEG-4, because in many parts of world MPEG-2 is still used. Its only TRAI's order that all STB's should have common technology (which anyways nobody follows). MPEG-4 may be implemented if TATASKY (or DISH TV) plans for seperate HD transmission (All speculations!)

 

[ajuravi007]

Still in UK and US are they having MPEG 2 technology? Even if they sell all the MPEG 2 STB I think to convert the same MPEG 2 technology to MPEG 4 techonolgy how much will it cost?