@mek76There is no difference between DTH and HITS."If HITS technology uses Ku-Band there is no difference left between a DTH company and a Cable TV company or an MSO. (a) By acquiring a HITS license, a DTH company can use their existing infrastructure to carry out distribution of signals to individual households using MDU technology which is nothing but a cable network for Ku-Band. (b) Similarly, since a small dish is required for receiving Ku-Band signals, an MSO with HITS license can also distribute signals direct to subscribers who can use a Ku-Band dish to receive the signals like any other DTH subscriber."
Tata Sky DTH: Cable on steroids will `hit` DTH
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gregory house
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HITS will work out cheaper if you are an MSO planning on providing digital cable. It won't add much to an independent cable operator other than the fact that he might be able to offer more channels via analog cable than he can at present, that too if the HITS operator and laws are agreeable to this.The two-way stuff is crap. If the signals go from HITS operator to cable operator and he in turn sends them to a digital STB, how does that enable two way communication - broadband, VOIP, telephony or even Movies on Demand? The communication, if any, will be restricted to those connected by the cable.And why place technical restrictions as in C-band yes, Ku-band no? This is a business. If cable operators and smaller MSO's are so afraid, they should get the hell out.
ajuravi007
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@crzayshahI am still confused on that. vgpal provided the link but still i am confused as i am not able to understand totally the meaning of Hits & the difference between DTH & HITS:wall:
ajuravi007
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@its me does that mean the parent company of MSO will be using HITS and it will give signals to lacal mso. Eg., Hathway or incablenet are mso's and they have head office in delhi or bombay. Hits will be facility where the head office by using the hits facility will provide signals to their own mso's who are based in chennai, bangalore or kolkata. Please correct me if i am wrong
I will try to explain with some more details1. Cable: Presently every broadcaster has a master satellite (INSAT, ASIASAT, PAS, etc all C-band) where they uplink their signals and the signals are downlink from same satellite. Cable operators pick signal from various satellites (so we can see they have 3-4 big dishes on their roof top) and then selects the channels from satellite signals as per regional demand, then modulate and send via cable to his customers2. DTH: DTH operator (Tata Sky/DISH/DDD+) also downlink channels from Master satellite then select channels only they have purchased from channel provider (STAR/ZEE/Sony/SUN/ETV/NEO/ESS). Then this channels are uplinked to their provider satellite (INSAT 4A/NSS6 - Ku band) from which viewers can directly downlink via small dish and receive channels as per package subscribed.3. HITS: In HITS each broadcaster can uplink his channel signals (Free or encrypted) to a dedicated satellite (C/Ku Band) from any location in country. The HITS operator (or license holder) can downlink this signals from this single dedicated satellie and send select channels as per regional demand and send it to his users in conventional analog format (so no need of STB, but will have limitations of cable) or in digital format which will need STB to decode channels and can also provide services like EPG, ACTIVE (may be its somewhat similiar to present digital cable providers)
ajuravi007
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I will try to explain with some more details
1. Cable: Presently every broadcaster has a master satellite (INSAT, ASIASAT, PAS, etc all C-band) where they uplink their signals and the signals are downlink from same satellite. Cable operators pick signal from various satellites (so we can see they have 3-4 big dishes on their roof top) and then selects the channels from satellite signals as per regional demand, then modulate and send via cable to his customers
2. DTH: DTH operator (Tata Sky/DISH/DDD+) also downlink channels from Master satellite then select channels only they have purchased from channel provider (STAR/ZEE/Sony/SUN/ETV/NEO/ESS). Then this channels are uplinked to their provider satellite (INSAT 4A/NSS6 - Ku band) from which viewers can directly downlink via small dish and receive channels as per package subscribed.
3. HITS: In HITS each broadcaster can uplink his channel signals (Free or encrypted) to a dedicated satellite (C/Ku Band) from any location in country. The HITS operator (or license holder) can downlink this signals from this single dedicated satellie and send select channels as per regional demand and send it to his users in conventional analog format (so no need of STB, but will have limitations of cable) or in digital format which will need STB to decode channels and can also provide services like EPG, ACTIVE (may be its somewhat similiar to present digital cable providers)
I understand the 1st & 2nd part.
In the 3rd part some what i have understand if i am correct what you said it means that all the broadcasters like sony, star, zee, ESS, Sun, Etv need to uplink their channels in a particular satelliete i.e., all the channels need to uplinked to Insat 4A(Eg) and then an MSO with only one dish can select the channels what he wants and then give it to the end customers right
1. Cable: Presently every broadcaster has a master satellite (INSAT, ASIASAT, PAS, etc all C-band) where they uplink their signals and the signals are downlink from same satellite. Cable operators pick signal from various satellites (so we can see they have 3-4 big dishes on their roof top) and then selects the channels from satellite signals as per regional demand, then modulate and send via cable to his customers
2. DTH: DTH operator (Tata Sky/DISH/DDD+) also downlink channels from Master satellite then select channels only they have purchased from channel provider (STAR/ZEE/Sony/SUN/ETV/NEO/ESS). Then this channels are uplinked to their provider satellite (INSAT 4A/NSS6 - Ku band) from which viewers can directly downlink via small dish and receive channels as per package subscribed.
3. HITS: In HITS each broadcaster can uplink his channel signals (Free or encrypted) to a dedicated satellite (C/Ku Band) from any location in country. The HITS operator (or license holder) can downlink this signals from this single dedicated satellie and send select channels as per regional demand and send it to his users in conventional analog format (so no need of STB, but will have limitations of cable) or in digital format which will need STB to decode channels and can also provide services like EPG, ACTIVE (may be its somewhat similiar to present digital cable providers)
I understand the 1st & 2nd part.
In the 3rd part some what i have understand if i am correct what you said it means that all the broadcasters like sony, star, zee, ESS, Sun, Etv need to uplink their channels in a particular satelliete i.e., all the channels need to uplinked to Insat 4A(Eg) and then an MSO with only one dish can select the channels what he wants and then give it to the end customers right
I understand the 1st & 2nd part.
In the 3rd part some what i have understand if i am correct what you said it means that all the broadcasters like Sony, star, zee, ESS, Sun, Etv need to uplink their channels in a particular satelliete i.e., all the channels need to uplinked to Insat 4A(Eg) and then an MSO with only one dish can select the channels what he wants and then give it to the end customers right
I guess so. May be channel broadcaster will directly uplink their signals to HITS satellite. Or may be there will be someone in between (can be from govt. side) who maintains HITS satellite system who will uplink the signals.
Only benefit I see is cable operator all over India can receive signals for all channels by single dish, and then he can select the channels as per regional demand and pass it on to viewers. So viewers can also pay only for what they receive. And it will also provide possibility of carriage of all available channels due to availability of transponders (Although HITS operator should first take care of this to accomodate 400+ channels)
In the 3rd part some what i have understand if i am correct what you said it means that all the broadcasters like Sony, star, zee, ESS, Sun, Etv need to uplink their channels in a particular satelliete i.e., all the channels need to uplinked to Insat 4A(Eg) and then an MSO with only one dish can select the channels what he wants and then give it to the end customers right
I guess so. May be channel broadcaster will directly uplink their signals to HITS satellite. Or may be there will be someone in between (can be from govt. side) who maintains HITS satellite system who will uplink the signals.
Only benefit I see is cable operator all over India can receive signals for all channels by single dish, and then he can select the channels as per regional demand and pass it on to viewers. So viewers can also pay only for what they receive. And it will also provide possibility of carriage of all available channels due to availability of transponders (Although HITS operator should first take care of this to accomodate 400+ channels)
