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Tata Sky HD DTH: HD Channels now have ads

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:53 PM PDT

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"If HD channels start airing commercials, then I want a reduction in my channel subscription," said Ashish Tiwari, a Mumbai resident. Ankul Barar, who lives in Delhi, said, "If broadcasters are going to air ads then, since we pay a premium on these channels, we may as well have just one ad break in one hour —like when we go to watch a film in a cinema hall."Shailaja Bajpai in Bangalore is angry at the thought of ads interrupting her viewing on channels she pays more for.
This is hilarious. You pay premium charges of HD channels due to several reasons.

If we look up on technical side then we all know that larger bandwidth is required for broadcasting HD channel. Leaving aside the facilities required to broadcast HD content, the bandwidth required to transmit one HD channel is 4-5 times more than usual SD content. For broadcasting HD, additional equipment has to be installed. HD Technology & programming is very expensive.

In fact the production companies have to replace or add most of their transmission & production chain. That means replacing cameras, vision mixers, monitors and VT machines with new, costly versions and installing fibre cable, servers and new routeing equipment. Production cinematic HD cameras cost way more. Filmmakers don't use SLR. And these cameras don't use triax cables like SD cameras do. The copper/fibre hybrid cables are about 10 times the cost of triax. For audio it's whole another story. Providing video feed with 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound takes more than a smile.

There is much more cost involved in live production. How about better scenery, more intricate costumes, better-painted backgrounds etc? Imperfections such as nail holes, faded color on the walls will show up on HD. Even the makeup of actors need adjustments due to change in clarity & contrast.

Average consumer is bound to overlook some of these factors. Then how about effing video & sound quality of HD channels? You pay for that.

Hard drive costs - what are they like now

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:36 PM PDT

me too...I need it so bad I have been deleted so much previous data because of that :(

MTNL 3G Jadoo User Experience

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:26 PM PDT

yup bad net connectivity today stalling bad here !

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 with Android Ice Cream Sandwich?

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 11:29 AM PDT

This is more targetted at low to mid end segment of tablets if you ask me

Which Google Android Smartphone should I buy?

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 11:26 AM PDT

I guess just now they released all the pluses and duos etc models, also they seem to need to have a lot to go into hardware to support their bloatware touchwiz on top of ICS , so I doubt it will anytime soon.. 4 to 6 months is what I see as a possibility

Updates

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 10:59 AM PDT

Yes, that was resolved at about 8:30 pm. The forum was down for more than 1.5 hours. :(

Safe !!

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 10:46 AM PDT

Nice , but the trailer shows pretty much everything about the movie :giggle:

New ACT Broad Band Connection

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 10:43 AM PDT

Hi I have ACT Connection and recently bought a WRT120N Router...I configured SSID and its connecting but I cant connect to the internet. Can you help with the settings

Streamzoo

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 10:18 AM PDT

Ok, i couldnt resist, i downloaded, registered & then found ot the same thing - share pics via Tumblr, twitter, FB, Picasa! :|