Direct to Home – DTH

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The original concept of satellite television started over 50 years ago, direct to Home (DTH) satellite receivers were developed in the early 1980’s.

DTH offers better quality picture than cable TV and stereophonic sound effects. It reaches even those places where cable is not available. This service is also providing value-added services that include teletext, dual audio for channels, parental control, electronic programme guide and radio channels.

DTH has also allows for interactive TV services such as movie-on-demand, Internet access, video conferencing and e-mail. If you want to record your favorite programs you can get a free DVR (digital video recorder) receiver.

Main disadvantage of DTH is fading of the signal due to rains. Heavy rains may result into outage for a few minutes in the DTH signal.

DTH service provider in India:

Dishtv is India’s first direct to home (DTH) entertainment service.

DD Direct Plus is a free Direct to Home service in India, owned by parent company Doordarshan. DD DIRECT PLUS was launched in December 16, 2004.

Sun TV was launched in 1992 as the first private channel in South India. Today it has 20 televisions channels in the four South Indian languages. Recently Sun TV launched a DTH satellite television service entitled SUN Direct on 7th December 2007.

Tata sky also another private DTH service provider in India.

Reliance Communications (RCom) and Bharti get ready for a launch direct to home service.


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16 Responses to “Direct to Home – DTH”

  1. sanjiv kumar kalia on May 19th, 2008

    hello sir i want to know about the dealers of dd direct plus in jalandhar

  2. sabin on June 13th, 2008

    sir i want to know about the dealers of dd direct plus in calcutta

  3. ranganathan on July 17th, 2008

    Sir
    i have DTH at home.
    but i am not getting carnatic music channel.
    how to tune the same

  4. Matrimony based interactive service on DTH on July 26th, 2008

    [...] India’s No. 1 direct-to-home company will launch a new interactive service on its platform called “Shaadi Active” in collaboration with the world’s largest matrimonial service provider, Shaadi.com. [...]

  5. Gate on July 31st, 2008

    i think Reliance Big Tv Dth will defeat all DTH players in India

  6. DTH Players on August 25th, 2008

    Indian DTH players:

    1. Dish TV
    2. DD Direct
    3. Tata Sky
    4. Sun Direct
    5. Big TV (Reliance Communications)
    6. Airtel Digital TV (Launch in September)
    7. Videocon DTH (Launch in October)

  7. shekhar singh on August 29th, 2008

    sir,
    can u provide me working of DTH.

  8. Airtel Digital TV on October 7th, 2008

    Telecom operator Bharti Airtel operator Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its Direct to Home (DTH) Satellite TV service – Airtel Digital TV, which will offer over 175 channels across the country

  9. KIRANKUMAR on October 23rd, 2008

    Give me Latest DD DTH channel list

  10. Anish K.S on November 18th, 2008

    Very useful article :)

  11. Videocon D2H DTH service on March 31st, 2009

    [...] Consumer durable maker Videocon Industries plans to launch its direct-to-home (DTH) television service in India under D2H brand.[...]

  12. Sun Direct launches HD services on DTH in India on April 8th, 2009

    The leading direct-to-home (DTH) service provider Sun Direct created history by launching the first ever High Definition (HD) broadcast on DTH platform in India.

  13. DIBYAJYOTI CHOUDHURY on November 30th, 2009

    hi kirankumar,

    here is the complete latest channel list for dd direct plus:-

    Dish Tv (Nss 6) Temporary FTA Channels List Updated on 30th November 2009
    Enjoy in Dd Direct + Dth Service
    Temporary Free 2 Air Channles From Dish Tv (NSS 6)
    (1) ETC PUNJABI
    (2) BHAKTI MOSAIC
    (3) ZEE JAGRAN
    (4) DISH INTERACTIVE
    (5) ZEE TAMIL
    (6) 999 ACTIVE
    (7) CGNTV

    DD Direct + Channels List Updated on 30th November 2009
    INSAT 4B at 93.5* E

    (Transponder 1) Frequency-10990 Symbol Rate-27500 Polarity-V FEC-3/4

    TV CHANNELS
    01-DD National
    02-DD News
    03-DD Sports
    04-DD India
    05-DD Bharati
    06-DD Bangla
    07-DD Chandana
    08-DD Girnar (Gujarati)
    09-DD Kashir
    10-DD Lok Sabha
    11-Test 111 (Now Showing NHK World)
    12-Test 112 (Now Showing DD News)
    13-Vyas Tv

    RADIO CHANNELS
    01-AIR VBS
    02-AIR Telugu
    03-AIR Marathi
    04-AIR Tamil

    (Transponder 2) Frequency-11070 Symbol Rate-27500 Polarity-V FEC-3/4

    TV CHANNELS
    1-DD North-East
    2-DD Oriya
    3-DD Podhigai
    4-DD Punjab
    5-DD Sahyadri
    6-DD Saptagiri
    7-DD Malayalam
    8-Rajya Sabha TV
    9-Mh1 Shraddha
    10-Shakthi TV
    11-N TV
    12-IBN Lokmat
    13-9X

    RADIO CHANNELS
    1-AIR Gujarati
    2-FM Rainbow
    3-AIR Punjabi
    4-FM Gold Channel

    (Transponder 3) Frequency-11150 Symbol Rate-27500 Polarity-V FEC-3/4

    TV CHANNELS
    1-Star Jalsha
    2-9XM
    3-Time TV
    4-Makkal TV
    5-PTC News
    6-Aastha TV
    7-ETC
    8-Care World
    9-E 24
    10-Zee Jagran
    11-MH One
    12-P-7 News
    13-Total TV
    RADIO CHANNELS
    1-AIR Kannada
    2-AIR Bangla
    3-AIR Hindi
    4-AIR North East

    (Transponder 4) Frequency-11490 Symbol Rate-27500 Polarity-V FEC-3/4

    TV CHANNELS
    1-DW TV Asia + (Dw Tv)
    2-Kairali Tv
    3-NHK
    4-News Live
    5-Amrita TV
    6-India News
    7-News 24
    8-Enterr 10
    9-Azad News
    10-SVBC

    RADIO CHANNELS
    1-AIR Malayalam
    2-AIR Assamese
    3-FM Rainbow Chennai
    4-FM Gold Channel Mumbai
    5-Radio Kashmir
    6-DWS
    7-Test Radio

    (Transponder 5) Frequency-11570 Symbol Rate-27500 Polarity-V FEC-3/4

    TV CHANNELS
    1-Gyandarshan 1
    2-Gyandarshan 2
    3-DD Urdu
    4-Jai Hind
    5-Music India
    6-Kalaignar TV
    7-Star Utsav
    8-Zee Smile
    9-B4U Music
    10-Mega Tv

    RADIO CHANNELS
    1-AIR Ragam
    2-FM Rainbow Bangalore
    3-AIR Urdu
    4-AIR Oriya

  14. suresh w chitale on December 8th, 2009

    please give advise to set the aastha tv channel dd directplus

  15. MANOJ GANGULY on December 15th, 2009

    I AM CUSTOMER OF FREE DTH DIRECT PLUS SERVICES, I D’NT KNOW WHY STAT JALSA IS CANCELLED FROM DTH FREE SERVICES WITHOUT ANY INFOEMATION. AWAITING YOUR REPLY.

  16. vishal on February 6th, 2010

    friendz m making a project on DTH services in india for ma acadimics
    plz send me some information regarding this…
    thank u

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