Discovery Turbo Now on Reliance Digital TV

Taking advantage of the buzz the F1 race created in India, Reliance Digital Tv has chosen to add the Discovery Turbo channel to their channel list. Discovery turbo, serves content that consists of the A to Z of motoring. It includes shows like American Choppers, Monster Garage, Fifth Gear, Trick My Truck and Wheelers Dealers.

Rahul Johri, senior vp, gm, Discovery India, said, "We have received tremendous response for Discovery Turbo across India, where people watch and connect with our engaging and unmatched content. The availability of Discovery Turbo on Reliance Digital TV expands the reach of the channel, as it continues to offer the best entertainment experience to our viewers."

Sanjay Behl, ceo, Reliance Digital TV, added, "At Reliance Digital TV, we have been constantly engaged with enhancing the entertainment experience for our customers by providing them quality entertainment that spans across a wide spectrum of audience interests. With the addition of Discovery Turbo to our bouquet of over 250 channels, we are sure to delight our customers with the engaging content delivered to them through a superior technology platform ensuring an unmatched viewing experience."

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Big TV in Talks with BBC Entertainment

While the other DTH providers are squabbling, Big TV is making silent but steady moves in the background to gain not only channel strength but to provide a massive amount of varied content to its users.

The essence of a successful DTH launch for Big TV will be to boast a huge amount of channels that will draw a line, dividing itself from the other DTH players in the market. To boost this effort Big TV chose a higher level of compression that's the Mpeg-4, what this means is, in the same amount of Bandwidth Big TV will be able to provide more channels as compared to the existing DTH players in the market.

Tata Sky, recently filed a petition with the fair trade regulator, Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC), alleging Dish TV’s free set-top box offer as being an "anti-competitive" and "deceptive" act. The counsel appearing for Tata Sky alleged that Zee group-promoted Dish TV claimed in its advertisement campaign in print and electronic media that its STB were being given for free, which was not the case.

While Tata Sky and Dish TV, wage the battle in court Reliance ADAG who had recently implemented BBC World in the month of May has been negotiating with the British Broadcasting Corporation for the BBC Entertainment channels to add to their list of channels.

When the negotiation will be completed is not know, but according to the administrator of the Indian BBC Entertainment forum, they are keen on distributing their packages on the Reliance DTH Platform as well.

If this deal works out, this will push the numbers up of channels on Big TV to up to 160 channels.

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Big TV Updated Channel List

We had provided you with details of Big TV's Channel list as provided by Reliance ADAG that was updated on February 2008. But since then the DTH provider has been including quite a few new channels.

According to the latest lists available on the internet from sources such as the
Save on Dish Forum and Lyngsat the below channels are available with Big TV, bringing the total amount around 150 channels now.

Aaj Tak
Aaj Tak Tez
Aakaash Bangla
Aashta TV International
Amrita TV
Animal Planet
Animax
Asianet News
Astha TV
ATN Bangla
AXN
B4U Movies
B4U Music
Big TV Action 10
Big TV Action 9
Big TV Comedy 2
Big TV Comedy 5
Big TV Comedy 6
Big TV Comedy 7
Big TV F Drama 4
Big TV F Drama 5
Big TV F Drama 6
Big TV History 1
Cartoon Network
Channel One
Channel V
Channel V (in)
CNBC - TV 18
CNBC Awaaz
CNBC TV 18
CNN
CNN-IBN TV
Discovery Channel
Discovery Lifestyle
Discovery Travel & Living
Disney Channel
Doordarshan
Doordarshan Bangla
Doordarshan Gujarati
Doordarshan India
Doordarshan Lok Sabha
Doordarshan Malayalam
Doordarshan National
Doordarshan News
Doordarshan Punjabi
Doordarshan Rajya Sabha
Doordarshan Sahyadri
Doordarshan Sapthagiri
Doordarshan Sports
Doordarshan Urdu
E TV Bihar
E TV Rajastan
E TV Urdu
E TV Uttar Pradesh
ESPN
ETC
ETC Music
ETC Punjabi
ETV 2
ETV Gujurati
ETV Kannada
ETV Marathi
ETV Oriya
ETV Telugu
Fashion TV India
GEO TV
GOD TV
Gyan Darshan
HBO
Headlines Today
History Channel
IBN 7
India TV
Indiavision
Janmat
Jaya TV
Kairali
Live India
Maa TV
MH 1
Mi Marathi
MTV India
NatGeo Adventure
National Geographic Channel
NDTV INDIA
NDTV Profit
NDTV24x7
Nepal 1
NGC
Nickelodeon
North East TV
Pix
Pogo
S1
SAB TV
Sadhana TV
Sahara Filmi
Sahara Mumbai
Sahara National
Sahara One
Sahara Rajsthan
Sahara Samay National
Sahara Samay NCR
Sahara Samay Uttar Pradesh
Sangeet Bangla
Sanskar
Set Max
Shakti Channel
Sony
Sony Entertainment TV
Southern Spice Music
Star Ananda
Star Cricket
Star Gold
Star Majha
Star Movies
Star News
Star One
Star Plus
Star Sports
Star Utsav
Star Vijay
Star World
Tamilan TV
Tara Newz
Tensports
Time TV
Times Now
Toon Disney India
Total TV
TV 9 (in)
TV5 Monde Asie
VH1 India
Zee 24 Taas
Zee Aakash 24 Ghante
Zee Business
Zee Cafe
Zee Cinema
Zee Kannada
Zee Music
Zee News
Zee Smile
Zee Sports
Zee Studio
Zee Talkies
Zee Telugu
Zee Trendz
Zee TV
Zoom TV

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Big TV Entertainment and News

Reliance Entertainment from the ADAG group has split itself into two branches namely the Reliance Big TV Entertainment and Reliance Big TV News to foray into the broadcast business.

The reason for this is due to the governments restrictions on foreign direct investment in the news media sector. The group is proposing two general news and two business news channels in Hindi and English and wants to remain open to the idea of roping in an international player in the entertainment TV segment.

The Reliance ADAG plans on launching twenty TV channels altogether in the country to expand its reach in the fast-growing broadcast entertainment business, although what the other 16 channels will consist of are not yet known.

In a recent update Big TV claims to have already acquired a customer database of 40,000 customers. The company also announced the road map for launching competitively priced Direct-To-Home (DTH) services across 4,000 towns in the next few weeks.

Big TV DTH also claims to have completed trial runs across 2,400 towns and the service, under the same brand name.

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Big Tv Features

The features of Big Tv are as stated below:

This is one feature that really stands out as compared to being at the mercy of the channel that broadcasts movies with advertisements every twenty minutes.

Here you can choose your movie and watch it ad free, with good quality. This should be the Big Tv's unique selling point. The Big Tv claims to have an audio quality comparable with CD quality and video quality as good as a DVD. Would it live up to these quality standards we will have to wait and watch.

Reliance claims that Big Tv offers more channels for choice for their users, at the moment the company offers around 150 to 200 channels, you can see the entire channel list here.
But you may already have more than 300 channels with your local cable operator and a set top box.

Most new televisions have a picture in picture mode, Big Tv boasts of 12 Pictures on one screen. I really do not know how many people would want to use a feature like this I can imagine watching two things at a time, that's probably cricket and formula 1, but then again without sound does not really appeal to me.

Although its been marketed as a multi-screen video function that allows you to preview categories at the same time making it simple to navigate between your favorite channels.

Some of the features are explained in details, High Definition experience – Picture quality and resolution is five times better, along with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, which gives a feel of 3D sound.

MPEG 4 compresses the signals so that more channels can be carried through the same bandwidth. So now over 150 channels across genres like entertainment, news, sports, education, travel, kids, spiritual, lifestyle, financial, covering more than 9 Indian languages.

Big Tv introduces pay-per-view, get all the latest DVD quality movies and events at a click of a remote, SMS or phone. Just pay as you order, now you can experience the fun of having your own personal video store open 24/7.

Make sure your child is not exposed to any undesirable content. Keep a tab on what your child watches with the child lock feature.

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Big TV Channel List

Update 22-11-11

You can download the updated version of the Reliance Digital Tv's channel list from below.

Main Subscription Pack

Regional Packs

Add on A La Carte Pack

Big TV shall get all the Star, Sony and NDTV channels along with popular sports, news and entertainment channels.

The minimum subscription of Rs 325 will be applicable for the first 12 months. At any time, subscriber is free to buy more add on packages at extra cost. After 12 month, subscriber will be free to choose any package from the available options of value less than Rs. 325 p.m. In the near future (30-45 days), subscribers can choose any packages (should add upto a minimum of Rs 325 pm)

• 40 Music Channels


• 32 Special Movie Channels hindi, english and regional languages.


• 25 New films every month, pay for the movies you watch.

Channels
Current	Upcoming
Aastha	B4U Movies
Akash Bangla	CNBC AWAAZ
Amrita TV	CNBC TV18
Animal Planet	CNN
Animax	CNN IBN
Asianet	ESPN
Asianet News	HBO
Asianet Plus	POGO
Asianet Suvarna	Reality Zone
AXN	Shalom
Cartoon Network	Star Ananda
Channel V	Star Majha
DD Bharati	Star Sports
DD Gyan Darshan	Vijay TV
DD News	Zee Action
DD North East	Zee Business
DD Punjabi	Zee Cafe
DD Rajyasabha	Zee Cinema
DD Sports	Zee Classic
DD Urdu	Zee Gujarati
DD1	Zee Kannada
DD10 Sahyadri (Marathi)	Zee Marathi
DD11 Gujarati	ZEE NEXT
DD12 Kashmiri	Zee Premier
DD4 Malayalam	Zee Punjabi
DD5 Podhigai (Tamil)	Zee Studio
DD6 Oriya	Zee Talkies
DD7 Bangla	Zee Telugu
DD8 Telugu	Zee Trendz
DD9 Chandana (Kannada)
Discovery
Discovery Travel n Living
Disney
Fashion TV
GOD
Headlines Today
History
Hungama TV
IBN 7
India TV
Indiavision
Jaya TV
Kairali
Kalaignar TV
Loksabha TV
Manorama News
MAX
MH1
MH1 Shraddha
Mi Marathi
MTV
Music India
National Geographic Channel
NDTV 24x7
NDTV Good Times
NDTV IMAGINE- Ent
NDTV India
NDTV METRONATION
NDTV Profit
NE TV
Nickelodeon
OTV
PIX
SAB
Sanskar
Sony Entertainment TV
SS Music
Star Cricket
Star Gold/TD>
Star Movies
Star News
Star One
Star Plus
Star Utsav
Star World
Ten Sports
TEZ
Times Now
Toon Disney
Total TV
TV9 Karnataka
TV9 Telgu News
VH1
Zee TV
Zoom

* This list has been updated as on Feb 6th 2008 by Reliance.

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