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Entertainment is India is mainly constituted by Television sets. Before 2 years these TV entertainment was possible by cables but now other than these cable services people now have DTH and IPTV services. Are you looking for DTH and IPTV service providers and their tariffs? Are you looking for a comparison between DTH and IPTV services in India? If YES is the answer for the question then you are at the perfect place now. The following guide gives you details what you desire. Here it goes

DTH is nothing but direct to home service in which the user will receive the pictures from the dish that is being kept in their houses from the satellites. As if now there are 6 DTH service providers in India and 7th service provider will be available shortly. List of service providers and their tariff details as follows,

1. Doordarshan Direct Plus : Doordarshan was the first to introduce DTH in India. It’s absolutely a free service. However there are limitations in channels i.e. you cannot get all the channels in your TV set.
2. Dish TV: Dish TV was the first private entertainment DTH service provider in India. Dish TV telecasts more than 180 channels from its satellite. You can avail this service at $9.99/month *.  There are no installation charges and the equipment is free of cost. However $49.99 will be credited against activation fee in your first month bill. You can connect up to 4 TV sets in your home. In Dish TV you will receive Americas HDTV channels and Digital Video Recorder upgrades are FREE.
3. TATA Sky: TATA sky is the product of TATA group. TATA sky has a very good service and the picture clarity received is also of high quality. They also offer good competitive packages for their users. TATA is the leading DTH service provider in India as if now, however their main contenders are giving them a god fight and they are BIG and AIRTEL. They offer various packages and you can select the best pack that suits you from them. There is a pack called as Annual Mega Pack and to avail this pack you have to pay 5,000* RS per annum. This pack includes 172 channels* and 12 showcase movies. TATA has segregated the pack according to the region i.e. north and south India and considering the age groups i.e. sports, cartoons, music pack etc. some of the pack available are South Jumbo Pack + Fun Learning Pack + Lifestyle Gold Pack + Sports Gold Pack + Sports Platinum Pack.
4. Sun Direct: Sun Direct is the product of Sun TV group. They have more than 8 channels broadcasted all over India and in some parts of the world. They have various plans and offers for their DTH consumers. Plans are as follows,

Big TV: BIG TV is a product from Reliance group (Anil Ambani). Reliance BIG TV is using MPEG 4 technology which was not used by any other service providers in India. However it is used by Airtel too now. It has 32 cinema halls, digital quality in sound and video. The tariff varies from 100rs to 450rs and according to the rates you can choose your favorites from 200 channels. There are 3 packs,

•    Starter pack
•    Regional pack
•    Top-up pack

Airtel Digital TV
                     Airtel digital TV is available in 62 cities in India. It also uses the MPEG 4 technology. There are two packages available, the Gold package and the South Platinum. For the Northern market, the package starts from RS 2,499 and for the South, the package would start from RS 1,499. Monthly packages vary from Rs 125 to Rs 424 depending on the languages and genre.

Videocon DTH: is going to launch its DTH service soon and it has been named as D2H.

IPTV is nothing but internet protocol television. It provides you the highest quality picture possible and provides the picture in the network infrastructure. BSNL and Airtel are the service providers for IPTV in India and reliance is planning to join the list soon.

BSNL IPTV tariff is as follows,


Plan 1:

The Above  Mentioned  Tariffs Are  For Installation  Procedure Only  The  Service  Tariffs Are  As Follows:

IPTV Charges:

1. Basic IPTV with those 100 mentioned channels - 250 RS plus taxes extra.


Video on demand & IPTV charges {1st 2 Plans are only VOD next two are combo}

Airtel IPTV comes with latest MPEG4-10 compression technology and this offers more content and better quality images. Airtel also offers services like live broadcast television; network based time-shifted TV, real video-on-demand and a host of other interactive services. This IPTV service by Airtel is provided to the Customers a fibre backbone of Carrier Ethernet Network with last mile delivery on copper using ADSL2+ technology. This technology provides the user with high digital video and audio quality.

The Airtel IPTV Service comes with following two entry plans:
•    Magic@ Home Pack - Triple Play Plan - at RS. 999 per month which gives 135 channels including 256 kbps broadband speed with unlimited download and a landline connection
•    Combo Pack – IPTV and Broadband Plan – at RS. 599 per month which gives 117 channels including 256 kbps broadband speed with download limit of 2.5 GB
Reliance IPTV offers an opportunity to explore menus according to your own language and you can find features like instant channel change, digital video recording, parental controls, home media sharing and the best of all is pause and play live TV. These features have made people eager to go for Reliance IPTV.


When a comparison is made between IPTV and DTH definitely the facilities in IPTV is much more than DTH. However when cost comes into play IPTV is costlier than DTH. So the selection between these 2 depends upon an individual requirement and his affordability the service.