Came across an article on DTH Services in India by Mohasin, I had been looking at the pricing and subscription model of both the DTH Services in India, DishTV and TataSky over the last month. Both the services have good lineup of channels and subscription costs are reasonable at Rs. 200, however the initial costs could be anywhere between 4000 – 5000. I was looking forward for these services because of the poor quality of signals I was getting from the local Cable Operator, with DTH I am expecting some clear picture. Unfortunately I had decided against going for DTH for few reasons, It does not have my parent’s favorite channel (Gemini, too difficult to convince them to get rid of cable). I have two Televisions at home, so that would mean two DTH receivers and additional (nominal overhead) subscription cost than the normal.
But the main reason was the inability to Record Shows. I own a TV tuner card (Mercury) and use it most of the times for scheduling (because of my late/odd hours of working) my PVR to record a TV show on a channel I like and would watch it probably over the weekends. This helps in watching them a my own leisure time, however with DTH I would be deprived of that. I can no longer record any shows because it does not use the same Channel based frequency model. I would have to use the receivers Remote for switching channels etc. Until I figure out a way for recording Shows even using DTH, I would not be going near it, or one other option is to use both DTH and Cable.
Posted by Dinesh 
