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India is seeing growth in Direct To Home (DTH) services. We already have Dish TV, Tata SKy, Reliance Big TV, Videocon DTH and Airtel DTH. So many of them and the competition is heating up. All of these above DTH services are paid services. You have to pay some monthly fees to view those channels.

But do you know about Doordarshan DTH service called DD Direct Plus? DD Direct Plus is a free Direct to Home (DTH) service that provides satellite television and audio programming to households and businesses. So what is DD Direct Plus is good for?

Changing SAT: You can change to the satellite you want with DoorDarshan DTH meaning you can have customized TP and all the FTA channels on DD DTH as well. That means you can watch all the FTA channels of the world.

Completely FREE: DD Direct Plus DTH is completely FREE. DD Direct Plus currently shows more than 50 free to Air (FTA) channels. That means you can watch 9XM, ETC, B4u Music, 9X, Astha TV, Zee Smile, Zee Marathi, Zee Jagaran, B4U Movies, All the DD Channels, ETC Punjabi, Fashion TV and many more for free.

So what exactly you need to do to get Free DD Direct Plus Channels?
You need a small satellite dish (which is an antenna for receiving a satellite broadcast signal); a digital integrated receiver/decoder (IRD) also called STB (Set Top Box), which separates each channel and decompresses and translates the digital signal for viewing over a television. Price of a receive system is less than Rs 3000 and this is a one time investment and you don't have to pay anything for activation.

This is you want to follow when you go for FTA Kit shopping

• First you need FTA receiver, you can find it at any Electronic shope.
• Ask for C band solid big Dish between 8ft to 12ft.
• Lnb
• Add satellite detail.
  

How to Find Satelite Details?

Go to LyngSAT.com. The site provides details of all the available FTA channels with Satelite information, with the frequency, orbit location etc.

Once you setup your Receiver Box and Dish, you are all set to watch all the free to Air channels in India. This can be a good option for people who don't want to pay monthly subscription fees and still enjoy Direct to home serivces.

You can find details on how to install and configure your receiver for DD Direct Plus atDDINews.gov.in. The site gives good information about the service. If you have questions about channels, configuration etc., there are always forums and groups that can help you troubleshoot the problem.

If you are living in USA, wait for the next article where I will explain how you can watch High Definition Channels over the air for FREE without paying your cable operators.

Enjoy!!