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DishTV is India's first Ku-band Direct To Home(DTH) entertainment service. It belongs to the Essel Group. DishTV uses the NSS-6 for broadcasting it's programmes. Image File history File links Dishlogo. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... A Satellite dish antenna A satellite dish is a type of parabolic reflector antenna designed with the specific purpose of transmitting signals to and/or receiving from satellites. ... NSS-6 is communications satellite owned by New Skies Satellites. ...


Dish TV should not be confused with the unrelated American DTH service; Dish Network.



DISH Network is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service that provides satellite television and audio programming to households and businesses in the United States, owned by parent company EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH). ...

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History

Started by the Essel Group, Dish TV began by broadcasting the Essel owned Zee boutique. Zee TV is an India-based satellite television channel in the Zee Network umbrella, which carries broadcasts in Hindi and Urdu. ...


Dish TV added Sony package to their services around mid of 2006 and also increase their subscription price too . That really improved Dish TV customer numbers and services too . On 14 July 2006, the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal gave a favourable judgement for Dish TV by ordering STAR TV to allow Dish to broadcast all the channels in its boutique at 50% cost within 15 days of the decision. July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI), a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


After that Dish TV started test signals for the star bouquet and ended them at midnight, 18th of aug and started to broadcast them as pay channels in Dish TV services . After the launch of Tata Sky dth services in India, Dish TV also began to expand its value added services like Active channels, E.P.G. (electronic program guide).For this, Dish TV is giving a S.T.B. software upgrade which will change their menu options and support new services . The upgrade is currently provided to customers free of cost and will finish at the end of the sep. 2006 . Dish TV currently has more than 165 TV channels and 35 audio channels counting sony and star bouquet. Tata Sky is a satellite television company in India, formed through a joint venture between the Tata Group and News Corporations STAR TV. // Incorporated in 2004, Tata Sky is an 80:20 joint venture between the Tata Group and STAR TV. It was previously known as T-Sky but...


Dish TV is the direct compititor from Tata Sky and have huge base of more than 12,000,00 customers across India. Dish TV all India customer care number is 1901-180-3474 or 1800-180-3474.


However, one common complaint regarding Dish TV is the poor quality of customer service. Many subscibers have switched to or consider switching to Tata Sky because of this.


Update (15 Novemver 2006)

15 November 2006 - DishTV upgraded its software to newever one which has facilities like dishActive, Gaming, ActiveSports and ActiveNews. Each of these items are very user-friendly. It's new software upgrade contains patches to fix the previous version's bugs. This upgrade would allow us to access Active features like ActiveGaming, ActiveSports and ActiveNews. The inbuilt games are primitive.


Some special features of DishTV's new software

Channel browsing!: Earlier it was so easy to browse through the channels in DishTV, you could just press ok and the whole channel list would come and then you could easily select the channel you wanted and go on it, but now for going to a channel you don’t know the number of, you must go through each channel, and sometimes to add to it you can also miss the channel somewhere in between and go through the whole cycle again multiple times to find the right channel.


No Tuning: Now you cannot tune your channels and see the signal strength of the satellite transmission. You cannot just go to the Menu and delete all channels, reset them and check the signal strength to get new channels etc.


Customized SAT no more: You can’t feed your DishTV set top box with any new satellite information now. The only satellite you have access to is what the DishTV people have given you, which is NSS6


No more Free To Air!: Now because there is no tuning and setting options available on DishTV, we can NOT tune to any new satellite and catch its channels that are free to air, no more international access anymore!


Can’t edit TP: You cannot edit the TP settings anymore, the TP are provided by DishTV whenever they upgrade the box and you got to live with it.


Sound Quality degratory:The earlier DVD quality sound is not even CD quality now and there are lot of mismatches and lags which cause the sound to go behind the movie or ahead of it sometimes.


Video Quality:Sometimes in the new DishTV updated channels, horizontal slanting lines start appearing which degrades the quality of the video signal provided by DishTV. This is not the problem of the NSS6 satellite, but this is the problem of the software that it is unable to translate the signal properly into the telecast.


Therefore the recent DishTV update has removed a lot of things from the software which was earlier available on our set top boxes. So now well lets be satisfied with what we have, at least this software has quite enough to offer so that we don’t get too hurt because of what DishTV has removed from our lives! OHH and I forgot to mention the BIGGEST thing we lost in this update! God how can I forget it, well ladies and gentlemen, we have also lost the BELOVED Block Game, yeah and I know all of you are very sad right now at the RIP notice of the Block Game, oh well good times and bad times! (That was on the good side of mine, but actually , to inform the newcomers to this website, NOBODY liked that stupid block game)


New Games:New Games are added in the upgraded STB's it is given that they update our stb with new games every month.At present the games are Table football,Jinja Ninja,Fruit Splat,Boy racing,Jamble. NEW GAMES THAT ARE ADDED IN MANY OF THE STB'S are POOL,Solitary,Veggiedoku.They've also changed the layout of the exclusive gaming channel PLAYJAM.


LIST OF CHANNELS

CHANNEL PACKAGES AND LIST OF CHANNELS AVAILABLE ON DISH TV


Dish Welcome

Recently popular channels of star,sony and zee are added in dish welcome bouquet irrespective of the zone.And now the price is Rs.210 per month exclusive of taxes.


Movies
Zee Cinema
Max


Kids
Cartoon Network
Fashion
Zee Trendz
Fashion TV
Sports
ESPN
Star Sports
Zee Sports
Ten Sports
News
Zee News
Aaj Tak
CNN
Headlines Today
Total TV
BBC
Infotainment
Animal Planet
Discovery
National Geographic
VOYAGES


Music
Zee Music
ETC Music
B4U Music
MTV Music
MH1 Music
Balle Bah


Religious
Zee Jagran
Aastha
GOD TV
Sanskar
International
TV5 Asia (French)


Hindi Entertainment


Star plus
Star one
Zee TV
Sony tv


Zee Smile
Siti Channel
Play TV
Sab
Star Utsav
English Entertainment
ABC Asiapac
Discovery Tr & Liv
Regional Entertainment
ETC Punjabi
ARY Digital India
NE TV
N TV
SS Music
AsiaNet
Akash Bangla
ETV Marathi


Dish Plus

English Movies
HBO
Zee Studio
TCM
PIX
MGM
Star Movies View Schedule
Music
VH1
Trace TV
Channel V
Kids
Pogo
Animax
Nickelodeon
Boomerang
Toon Disney
Disney Channel
Hungama
Infotainment
The History Channel
Entertainment
Zoom
Zone Reality
AXN
Zee Cafe
Travel & Living View Schedule
Star World View Schedule


Dish Bioscope

Break - Free Hindi Movies
Zee Premier
Zee Action
Zee Classic


Dish News

Euro News Zee Business CNN Aawaz CNBC TV 18 NDTV 24X7 Star News Times Now


Dish Welcome Regional - complete your welcome bouquet by picking any one

Dish Hindi/Punjabi
Zee TV
Sahara One
Zee Punjabi
ETV - Rajasthan
ETV - UP
ETV - Bihar
ETV - MP
ETV - Urdu
Geo TV
Sahara Samay
India TV
NDTV India
Sony
Star One
Star Plus


dish Gujarati

Zee TV Zee Gujarati ETV - Gujarati Sahara One NDTV India Sahara Samay ETV - Urdu Sony India TV Star One Star Plus


Dish Oriya

ETV - Oriya Zee TV Sahara One ETV - Urdu ETV - Bihar Nepal 1 NDTV India Sahara Samay Sony India TV Star One Star Plus O-TV chamatakar


Dish Tamil/Malayalam

Asianet
Asianet News
Jeevan TV
Indiavision
Asianet Plus
Amrita TV
Dan Tamil
SS Music
Star Vijay
NDTV 24x7
ETV - Urdu
SunTV - Tamil


Dish Bangla

Ze Bangla ETV - Bangla Zee TV Zee Aakash Sahara One ETV - Bihar Nepal 1 NDTV India Sahara Samay Sony India TV Star One Star Plus Manorama TV


Dish Marathi

Zee Marathi Zee TV Sahara One NDTV India Sahara Samay ETV - Urdu Sony India TV Star One Star Plus


Dish Telugu

Zee Telugu ETV - Telugu MAA TV


ETV2 Telugu News


Dish Kannada

ETV - Kannada Zee Kannada ETV - Urdu NDTV 24x7


Channels available as part of the Free-to-Air DD DTH Service

cabletvbd DD1
DD India
DD News DD Sports DD Lok Sabha DD Rajya Sabha DD Kashir DD Punjabi
DD Bharathi
DD Sapthagiri
DD Bangla
DD North East
DD Gujarati
DD Sahyadri (Marathi)
DD Oriya
DD Chandana (Kannada)
DD Podigai (Tamil)
DD Malayalam
DD Gyandarshan


Aaj Tak
Zee Smile
Star Utsav
Jain TV
Headlines Today
Zee Music
MH1 Music



Akash Bangla
ETV Marathi
ETC Punjabi
Kairali (Malayalam)
TV 9 (Telugu)
Sun TV (Tamil)
Sun News (Tamil)
hi


Radio Channels

Punjab Radio
AIR VBS
AIR Telugu
AIR Marathi
AIR Malayalam
AIR Tamil
AIR Gujarati
FM Rainbow
Om Shanti
Air Aasamies
AIR Kannada
AIR Bangla
AIR Hindi
RA ELP
AIR NE
AIR Punjabi
FM Gold
RA FLP


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  Results from FactBites:
 
Dish TV announces 'Dish Freedom Package' | Televisionpoint.com News (443 words)
Dish TV, India's first direct to home service today announced a unique offer in India titled ‘Dish Freedom Package' for all those families that seek to watch over 40 channels in true digital quality without any monthly subscription fee.
The new package of Dish TV is further expected to increase the Dish TV subscribers in the state by providing best quality of entertainment as per the need and budget of individual subscribers.
Dish TV not only enables a consumer to decide its own bill for having access to satellite channels but also provides these channels in DVD quality with digital pictures and stereophonic sound.
Dish Network: Information from Answers.com (1663 words)
DISH Network was launched in March, 1996, and, along with DirecTV, primarily competes with cable television providers throughout the United States.
DISH 500+ and 1000+ are becoming more common as DISH Network (as well as other DBS services) are attempting to squeeze more programming onto their growing systems, particularly local and national American television network stations, as well as HDTV and ethnic programming.
DISH Network's first satellite antenna was simply called the "DISH Network" dish and was retroactively named the "DISH 300" when legal and satellite problems forced delays of the forthcoming DISH 500 systems.
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