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This is a conversation on Videocon to start DTH services on May 1 within the Videocon DTH forums, part of the Direct to home, Satellite, Cable and iptv category; NEW DELHI: Diversified business house Videocon Group is making an ambitious foray into the direct-to-home services with plans to garner. The cluster, which made an declaration of Rs 1,000 crore for the DTH venture earlier, made a soft launch of its 'Videocon D2H' services last evening in Macau in front of its 2,500 dealers, who where specially
Their DTH services, coming in the market by the name of D2H or Direct 2 Home will be launched somewhere around the February of this New Year. It was yet supposed to be introduce by the September of last year but due to some internal problems had to be postponed. They have got their named DTH service as Videocon D2H, meaning Direct 2 Home. They have even patent their site but is still under creation and hope will be live sooner rather than later.
They have happining this DTH trade under another name Bharat Business Channel Limited and this is nothing but another wing from Videocon. Videocon d2h started their tagline "Direct Hai Correct Hai" and we hope that they go with this mantra throughout. Now if you think we've got enough of DTH's in country to choose from, there's another one waiting in the fray, Introducing Videocon D2H. Before we go into the details, let me say the facts. For a DTH company to be doing well the first market it has to consider is the South Indian market for its variety of Regional channels.
People here are not going buy DTH to see Star Plus or Zee TV (not to take it straight) but they want their Gemini's, Sun's firstA satellite Box and Satellite DVD are just like any other DTH service which consists of a Dish and a Set top box. A satellite Box costs Rs.1690 and a Satellite DVD costs Rs.2590. Videocon d2h offer two type of package Gold package and Diamond package and as an introductory offer, when you purchase any of the D2H products listed above you get few months of free Gold or Diamond packages depending on the D2H product. The Gold pack contains 115 channels and costs Rs.1600 for 12 months and the Diamond Pack has 160 channels and costs Rs.1500 for 6 months (or Rs.2900 for 12 month) Here are some famous channels that you'll only get in Diamond pack AXN, MTV, Times Now, NDTV 24X7, CNN IBN, CNBC TV18, POGO, NICK, NEO cricket and NEO Sports, Zee Sports, ESPN, Star Cricket, Star Sports, Ten Sports, Star Movies, HBO, Sony Pix, Star One.
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