i need to kick their ass big time…

jith

The cable walah monoply is an abuse in a democratic setup.

It is against Human rights. We won from the Britishers but lost to cable walas as this democratic system has failed to protect our rights. Worst, its 2006 and Zee still cannot provide service worth its exorbitant price.

Perhaps its time to shun Tv alltogether and go back to active entertainment instead of being passive zombies.

ZEE Dish tv is a perfect NO-NO.
Has anyone experienced the DTH service called DD DIRECT.
This service was inaugrated by our PM on 16 dec 05, and the initial cost for this comes to around rs. 3000 and there is NO month cost. FREE FOR LIFE

You get only free to air channels in this.
This includes

Doordarshan Channels
DD-National DD-News DD-Sports DD-India DD-Bharati DD-Bangla DD-Chandana DD-Gujarati DD-Kashir DD-Malayalam DD-North East DD-Oriya DD-Podhigai DD-Punjabi DD-Sahayadri DD-Sapthagiri DD-Gyandarshan DD-Lok Sabha and DD-Rajya Sabha

Private Channels
Sun TV, Star Utsav, MH1, Jain TV, Akash Bangla, Kairali, BBC World, ETC Punjabi, Smile TV, Zee Music, Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, TV9 & ETV Marathi

RADIO CHANNELS: 17 music chaneels from AIR

for someone like me, hindi speaking.,,
I get 2-3 entertainment channels,
few music channels,
sports channel from DD which will always carry matches being played in India.
3-4 news channels including aajtak and BBC.

I think for me, its a good alternative which fulfills my basic requirements. I may not get a sas bahu serail but i do not need it.

As it is , channels are on an overkill these days and its good to go back to DD and whatever it has to offer. People are already fed up with TV and are going back to the books,.

I think this is the most balanced alternative available.

As far as technical feasibility is concwerned,
well dd-direct is accessible from ANYWHERE in the country.
The Set top box consumes 40 W power
The STb and the dish are generic and are freely available.
check out http://www.apnadth.com & http://WWW.DDINEWS.COM

The above two sights are very informative and discuss the service at length.
And for a difference, they sound as HONEST as anything could be.

At the end of one month, I was surprised I got along very fine without the TV. In fact, I managed to finish several books I carried with me.

Back in Mumbai, I simply thanked the cable guy for his exorbitant services and told him I would not be requiring it hence forth. Communication in the house increased. Instead of simply sitting in front of the idiot box like zombies, we began to talk more and read more. TV takes away a lot more than just your money – day in and day out it feeds you trash and numbs your brain. Do you really need all that – specially when its 40% ads?

I am residing at Bangalore considered on of most happening cities in India. In our place the cable connection is a monopoly and hence no competition. We have to watch cable tv without any clarity. We complained a lot. The rude and arrogant cable operator never turned up . He will shout for calling him. He will switch off his phone. We got fed up and told him we will only pay cable rent if they make the signal clear. After some months he increased the clarity of the signal and then as a punishment for telling him not to pay the rent until the cable is made clear he cut my cable connection. Since no other neighbours responded when the cable was not clear he didnt cut their connection. When i asked neighbours why they dont respond even if it is not clear, they tell me that they will also have to bear the punishment the cable operator will give by cutting the connection. Since there is no competitors they can do that. I went again to the cable guys office for getting back the connection and paid one months rent even though i didnt have the connection for the past two months. But he simply dont gave the connection back. He is denying cable connection to my house. When i went to another cable operator nearby our locality, he told me that he cannot enter to our area since that area is under our cable operators range. Since the cable operators are local people and seems like they can go to any extend if i quarrel with them and since i am alone and an immigrant to bangalore from a neighbouring state with nobody to support i thought of not responding to this injustice. I decided to take dish connection. But again due to the lack of good channels in dishtv i decided not to go for that. Its competitor space tv also dont have much channels. They only provide star networks channel. Both these DTH channel are comparitievly costly than cable tv and dont have much channels cable tv.
So i decided not to go for any tv connections until there is a good and quality service. So i dont watch television nowadays. But i have a found that life is more beautiful now so that i find lot of time to talk with my wife and spend on other tasks which are one way more creative.