Guys,
I am sorry as i promised of posting picture of a BIG dish i saw on a highway as last saturday when i went there; those people have already removed a dish. i couldnt found it on their roof! i didnt bother to ask as those people dont talk properly.
BUT - today while roaming around in a city, i saw 1 more BIG dish and this time i took a picture as soon as i saw it. (I pointed it out with a RED Arrow) Here it is:
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/1719/bigdishjt8.jpg
Sorry, for very blurry image as i was on my bike and my cell cam is not so good (N 6600).
I then went to ask who took this connection. He is a "paan ka gallawala" (pan shop). I asked, "do you know any dealer in a city who provide a new connection?" and he didnt have any idea at all. (such people never answer properly even if they know that we dont feel to talk more). I knew that he must have a PCO (there was a public phone there too) and he must have got it through that offer and hence i didnt ask from where did you get it.
But, this is really not a good thing what Reliance is doing for DTH. Imagine, a local pan shop people have a connection and we guys are still hunting for it. They even dont know what the hell quality is! (and even what HD content is) and they are watching channels on BIG now! I dont understand why do they offer to such people who even dont know (and dont bother) about quality and technology!
Do they (Reliance Head of DTH) rank their own product on such a lower basis that they have to start with "pan shops" and "pco owners"?
Such a low side mentality...
Any way, hope they do something really BIG to meet our expectations now.
1 thing is sure... which i observed till now.
These hardwares (Dish and STB) i saw there, are all older ones. They are not as shown on their website with a new [BIG] logo on it. Its an old brand logo and even STB is an older one.
So, i guess they had problems with all of them and they may want to launch for public ONLY when they are sure that there is no problem in new hardwares.
When i went to enquire that pan shopkeeper, i saw in a
TV; logo [BIG TV] continuously stays on a top left corner which is really annoying! There was some news going and their logo was disturbing a news headline - which is completely NOT GOOD and NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Hope, they are doing something about it.