Reliance Digital TV

Reliance Digital TV is one of the largest Indian pay TV providers, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to commercial and residential customers in India. It uses MPEG-4 digital compression technology,^[1] transmitted using MEASAT-3 91.5°East. It is the 5th DTH service launched in India.

Its primary competitors are cable television and other DTH service providers—Airtel digital TV, DD Direct+, Dish TV, Sun Direct, TATA Sky and Videocon D2H.

History

DTH service was first launched in India in 2004 by launch of Dish TV by Essel Group's Zee Entertainment Enterprises.

Reliance ADAG launched their DTH service on 19 August 2008.

About Reliance Digital TV

Reliance digital TV limited is a part of Reliance Communications Ltd., a subsidiary of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group^[2] founded by the Late Dhirubhai Ambani, the Indian business tycoon and owned by his son Anil Ambani. BIG TV started operations from 19 August 2008 with the slogan "TV ho Toh BIG Ho" ("If you have a TV, make it BIG"). It currently offers close to 250 channels^[3] and many interactive ones, 32 cinema halls (i.e. Pay Per View Cinema Channels) as well as many Radio channels. The company plans to increase the number of channels in the near future to 400 and begin High Definition (HD) broadcast. There are also plans to introduce services like i-Stock, i-News and other such interactive services in the future.^[4]

The available opportunity today is huge considering the fact that India has an existing population of 225 million TV households out of which 130 million are C&S households and 16.5 Million are DTH households. When Reliance BIG TV was launched, the overall DTH penetration was just about 4 million households^{[citation needed]}.

Reliance BIG TV's launch in August deployed the MPEG4 technology.^[5] MPEG4 technology can support HD TV and not MPEG2 which is used by the earlier entrants in the DTH industry^{[citation needed]}.

The MPEG4 technology helps to broadcast up to 35 to 40 channels per transponder^{[citation needed]}. With 12 transponders they are able to broadcast over 400 channels^{[citation needed]}. They are currently utilizing only 9 of their transponders to broadcast over 230 channels^{[citation needed]}.

Reliance digital TV's retailer network is spread across 100,000 outlets in 6,500 towns in India^{[citation needed]}. They also introduced 32 Pay-Per-View Movie Channels, the highest by any DTH player^{[citation needed]}.But as on March 2012 they have only 4 Pay-Per-View channels.

Subscriber Base

Reliance Digital TV had about 7 million customers as of November 2011.^[6] There are about 30 million DTH subscribers in India as of February 2012.^[7]

See also

• Airtel digital TV
• DD Direct+
• Dish TV
• Sun Direct
• TATA Sky
• Videocon D2H
• List of Indian DTH channels
• Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
• Reliance Communications

Further reading

• "Anil Ambani's BIG TV is DTH partner for IPL". The Times of India. 7 Aug 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
• "ADAG & Bharti gearing for massive on air war". The Economic Times. 18 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
• "Reliance BIG TV bags IPL DTH partnership rights for Rs 137 cr". Business Standard. August 8, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
• "Reliance Big TV Contact Details".  However, it does not have DVS-2 technology like, airtel digital, videocon dth.
• Complete channels list of Reliance Digital TV with Logos

References

External links

• Official website