Fri 2 May 2008
Movies on Demand, toooooooo costly?
Posted by Mr. Channel under DishTV, Tata Sky, Uncategorized
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Movies on Demand are a regular feature of Tata Sky as well as DishTV, they update their movies section every week, its like, they make a movie available for you, then… you order it through your mobile phone or through giving their special landline number a call.
However these movies cost you Rs. 40 on DishTV and Rs. 80 on Tata Sky, expensive? Yes of course they are expensive, but after all their reasoning for this is that you can have as many people view the movie as you want, and you get about 48 hours viewing the movie. But Rs. 40-80 for a movie viewing on Television just doesn’t sound great. Reasons?
- The General mentality: Movie will come free to air after a while anyways
- Lack of the Theatre effect: Now you know what I am talking about
- Last but not the least, NO POPCORN!
Movie on Demand, just doesn’t fit in the normal guy’s criteria, although I have an Idea for you DTH people, if you can provide people with a library of movies for anytime viewing and slash the rates to Rs. 20/-, and cut down the viewing time to 24 hours. You can really start earning from this.
Maybe the DTH people will read this entry of mine afterall and make changes for all of us, who knows, Be optimistic!
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January 19th, 2007 at 7:47 am The DTH Broadcasters are exploiting the rural as well as urban people.
In complete in a sense that the rental is also very high. For Dish welcome package Dish TV charges i.e “Rs.240+Taxes=262″ which is quite impossible for the rural viewers. They are also pushing for the Dish Maxi package which will cost a bomb i.e. more than Rs. 300/-. But the Customer care says that “If u will pay a little more than dish welcome package then u r getting 160 channels.”
u see nobody will watch all the channels at a time in a single TV, secondly, such channels include so many regional channels which should not be in count.
u can’t watch more than one TV (if u want than u have to add Rs.100/- per TV) which is just ridiculous. One can get more facility from the local cable operator. But what to do with the local area people.
They must have to pay for those regional & international language channels , even though they don’t understand.
It should be in a manner that one should pay only for the required channels but not for all channels (Like Conditional Access System). Otherwise the packages should be revised, like in the current package selection no one can choose all the English Channels / Kids Channels / Movie Channels. Also most of the channels have been wiped out like: SaharaOne, Sahara Filmy, Boomerang, CCTV, Australia Network (ABC Asia Pacific), AXN (Banned by the regularity Authority) etc.
I hope the management will cut down the monthly rentals & may consider the above factors.