Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Tata sky...the bad and good about it...





I didnt want to have a boring summer vacation...and the local cable didnt provide any english news channel, no movie channel (both hindi+english) and no sports channels apart from neo cricket...neo cricket sucks in a big way...whenever i go that channel i see this 'dial C for cricket'....that too repeated telecast...i had two options now...dish tv and tata sky...i went ahead with the brand tata....

Its been a month since i got the new tatasky...isko lagadaala tho life jingalala...
And there are a few aspects which are in no way 'jingalala'

I have no qualms over the audio and video quality but the customer service...i wanted to change the package and i called up...selected the option of 'speak to a customer associate'...they kept playing some ad and it went on for ever...But i found out that changing the package through net is lolipop..its convenient...But not every1 has access to internet!!

Now the way in which the packages are designed...i had subscribed for the south value pack and initially it had espn star, tensports and star cricket...but now the sports channels have been removed & they came up with a new package called sports platinum consisting of espn star and some other package for tensports....

The packages are very cleverly manipulated that inevitably we end up buying the costliest pakcage...

The plus points are the interactive features...and yes every button on the remote works...for example star sports, cartoon network can be viewed in 2 languages...i still remember an important EPL game in hindi commentary...watching cricket with hindi commentary is absolutely fine...but epl...naaa...

with all the above factors considered i would still give a thumbsup to tatasky and i would recommend it...

if u have some patience...wait for the reliance bomb 'the BIG TV'...yes they are planning to enter the DTH (direct to home) market and we know how things changed with reliance mobile...the stores often ran out of stock!! I am sure the new dth will be competetively priced and then we can see the rates stumbling down!!

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