Fri 2 May 2008
Many people ask me as of late that what are the good things about Tata Sky? So I decided to compile a guide to the features of Tata Sky that actually stand out from the rest of the Dish Networks in India. This list of Tata Sky’s special features and… of course features which Tata Sky does offer normally.
- 120 Channels (November 2006): Tata Sky boosts 120 channels under its kitty but its still missing a lot of channels which DishTV offers, although it is very much clear that DishTV offers those channels already because it is the senior player in this game as compared to Tata Sky. Although Tata Sky has been EXTREMELY quick to pick up considering the fact that Tata Sky was launched quite later and DishTV was very slow to add new channels.
- No Channel Alteration: This is one thing I like about Tata Sky, the fact that Tata Sky seldom changes the CHANNEL NUMBERS of the channels they offer, DishTV does it for all the time except for Zee Channels (Primarily because DishTV’s parent company, the Essel Group, CEO Subhash Chandra, owns Zee Network as well) and I am seriously fed up of the way I have to search for the channel I want on DishTV after an update, but this is not a cause of concern with Tata Sky absolutely. Tata Sky gets full marks over here.
- SEVEN DAY Program Schedules: Another big plus point with Tata Sky is the fact that you can go browse the Schedules of the programs on different channels (all of them actually) even SEVEN days in advance or less. DishTV as far as I know never offered anything like this, I mean to say a period like SEVEN days here, DishTV can go up to maximum of 24 hours forward and back, but this feature with Tata Sky is just incredible.
- EPG standalone usage: This may sound like a technical term, although it isn’t. EPG means Episode Guide or Everyday Program Guide I believe, anyways, so there is this feature on Tata Sky that allows you to check out what is on a particular channel without changing the channel you are watching, now no more missouts! What a great thing this is which the Tata Sky team sorted out, I am lead to believe that this is one of the most user friendly things ever! Not to mention, DishTV doesn’t offer this at all.
- Multiple Screen Feature: I don’t get the fact that why isn’t DishTV offering this thing? and why haven’t DishTV ever offered this as well? This is such a basic thing, and to tell you readers, I must say that why should we spend a few extra thousand rupees just to have a multiple screen feature on our Television set? (I bet you people remember those advertisements where the TV companies show in their advertisements that they have this new and cool multiple screen feature so their television is now going to cost you a few thousand rupees extra JUST FOR THIS ONE FEATURE. All it has to do is with software, hardware is the same. Now when we have DishTV, which is all in all software based and remotely upgradable as well! So why can’t DishTV offer this facility? But Tata Sky has an answer for this and therefore they are offering us a Multiple Screen Feature service, you can watch up to four channels simultaneously and choose whatever audio you want to! All this at no extra cost as well.
- Active Wizkids Interactive channel: DishTV may be offering a lot of Interactive channels and so is Tata Sky, but the channel Tata Sky stands out at here is the Active Wizkids Interactive learning channel for kids, where kids can go play some games which will also help them in learning something new through the method of games! Things couldn’t get better for kids when its Tata Sky! It was actually good to see that the Tata Sky people do have some creativity to stand out, even if it was just one little channel and that too for little people, but Tata Sky has SUCCESSFULLY stood out from the crowd over here.
- Superior Hardware and Customer Support: Now this is one thing that people are rooting at Tata sky for, the great quality for Hardware which they are selling to their customers as well as their awesome customer support, the good thing about their hardware is that it doesn’t fade out when there are weather problems, it doesn’t have sun outages, it doesn’t have any kind of a blurred picture when the the winds blow, neither does the signal fade out at Tata Sky when there are rains, it seldom happens and if it does, it has something to do with you and not the Dish which Tata Sky has provided. Also if some issue comes up and you need support, Tata Sky Customer support is always more than willing to come help you out as soon as possible. Something I have always seemed to have missed at dishTV, no real customer support, they come to your house days after your request. But Tata Sky has a 24 hours thing which doesn’t let them go late no matter what. Signal quality has also always been great at Tata Sky, with signal strength reaching to the extremes of 90-95%, nothing ever achieved in DishTV as far as I know.
So yeah Tata Sky has many good points to cheer about, and they are also better than DishTV in a lot of ways, I have only tried to specify some points here, but there are many more as well. Although one shouldn’t be unjust which is why I will be putting in the features glossary of DD DTH as well as DishTV pretty soon as well complete with reasons as to why you should choose them over the other alternatives around in the market.
Be optimistic though! There might come a day when all of these services become the same and then we do get to see some sort of a real competition between all these people, errm I mean these companies, the STB and DTH providers. We might be up for Hardware replacements, software overhaulings and don’t know what else! So yeah once again got to say! Be optimistic people! Thanks for reading
Mr. Channel
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December 11th, 2006 at 5:39 am Our adapter conked out in 3 days after the system got installed. The TataSky Field Service and Customer Support is so disconnected that it took them 2 days to even get their engg to check out what the problem is. Its been 5 days since we have had TV…and I thought TataSky would be better than Dish !!!
December 11th, 2006 at 7:40 am tata is much costly , they should anounce a small package which suitable for top to bottom public
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:51 am Multiple screen feature in Tata Sky!! Who told you that - it’s there only for some fixed channels.
Seven day program schedule!! My tata sky connection (Bangalore) does not show me more than one day of schedule. And unlike Hathway, if I were to opt for a full screen program guide, there’s no window showing the current channel.
Outages!! Actually, rare. It;s just that right now I was getting a “No Signal” error and decided to search for it in google - and landed up on this site.
Picture quality is excellent - and some channels even have digital sound - though these channels have “Tata Sky” logo watermarked in them for some reason. I really look forward to better outputs in the setup box than composite/analog audio though, and support for digital video recorder - which I hear dish tv has…
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:56 am on 2nd jan 2007 today, suddenly the signals to tatasky stopped, all their call center numbers are busy, and no information on the status is available on their website.
we as costomers can audjest with any techenical problem but atleast they should keep us informed.
Tatasky sadly has got very slow, uninformed, and unmotivated team of people working for it.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:23 am TATA SKY - Big Mistake.
1. They do not have a toll free number and one only if u use MTNL/BSNL - do not take tata sky if u do not want govt monopoly.
2. Got the box on the 31st Dec and now 6th still no sign of the dish etc.
3. TATA has very poor after sales record [historically] i don’t understand what went wrong in my head i bot tata sky.
4. If they do not show up today i will return the set top box to the dealer - good thing i used my credit card.
DO NOT BUY TATA SKY - IF U WANT PEACE OF MIND
cheers
January 11th, 2007 at 1:21 am TATA SKY is the best… it rules…
January 14th, 2007 at 10:56 am Although I saw on many sites that Neo Sports is available on Tata Sky,as at today (14/01/2007) it’s not appear on my channel list.
Does anyone getting it?
January 16th, 2007 at 2:16 am hi,
tata sky is sick … it is like dumping your money in shit.
booked on 7th and they ayet to install on 16th .
confirmed me 9th installation . will come back with more problems if any once the unit is installed.
wachout guys.
February 4th, 2007 at 10:34 pm one thing strikes me about TataSky and that is they are not giving sufficient amount of information about their product.There aren’t any booklets available at the dealers(they by themself don’t know about the product) and even their website sucks!!.Another thing i got a coupen in Reader digest of last month for a copy of booklet informing about their product guide, the free copy will delivered to only thoes who has the coupen else u gotta purchase fuck!!.i mean who gonna purchase that garbage for nothing.
February 9th, 2007 at 12:37 pm I think Tatasky is best cable TV Networks in India. There is Nothing after TataSky. But one draw back is that it has no internet facility. I think Tatasky should deeply consider about this matter.
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Prakash Panda
February 21st, 2007 at 4:37 am I dont understand how companies like this survive. Are the people in India so lazy to raise their voice for their own self. We just take anything that comes out to the market. And that’s the reason why companies sails shits at the cost of gold.
Tata Sky sucks. The website is the biggest bull-shit. No relevant information is available. People are more intrested in the quality of service than dump of some pig.
February 28th, 2007 at 3:03 am Hi,
It was sad to say that tata sky don’t have a helpline number of tamilnadu. Although they have a tataindicom phone. If anyone wants to make a call to customer care they should use only bsnl/mtnl what happend to TATAINDICOM especially people in tamilnadu have to make a STD to other state number. TATAINDICOM don’t have a chennai helpline number.
One important thing i would like to discuss is we all from South India especially from Tamilnadu. We would like to watch tamil music and filims but we don’t have that option. we are watching only jaya and vijaya. what happend to sun tv even if it is cases why not raj and other tamil channels.
What happend to packages in Tamilnadu. We got only super saver pack. Is it possible for middle class people to invest 300 rupees on montyly basis. We request the tata group to comeup with some economical plan.
I hope they do so.
tanks
Jaishankar
March 29th, 2007 at 12:17 pm tata sky is not shoing the charges after instollaion, if after 2 days their is the problem in hadware or dish thy will chared for reparing .you want to change the space they charged up to 1000.rs. can any one bilev it. then after in the form they given a point that if the party does not renual they will take the hardwear.it is very bad.
April 7th, 2007 at 4:03 pm Dishtv is a sick, they don’t reply ur message. very poor service.
ravi
May 15th, 2007 at 2:33 pm SUN NETWORK is not avaiable in tatsky tdsat has already fixed 11 may as for final hearing .but still the case is pending in court tdsat are careless they should order sun to give signals to tatasky at al a carte bases at 50% of that of cable rates
for further update in this case visit
http://www.tdsat.nic.in/orders.htm