Top DTH brands in India

About DTH

DTH or Direct to Home service refers to a special kind of service related to digital satellite, which provides direct television programming to subscriber's house irrespective of its location within the country. With wireless technology, different television programs directly get transmitted from satellite to a person's television who has subscribed this service through satellite signals. Being wireless, it does not even include any cable or wiring usage. People's nature of leading a hassle free as well as quality life has contributed to the increasing demand of DTH services since it gives good picture clarity and sound quality along with wireless and several other special features.

DTH service mainly consists of satellites, broadcasting centre, encoders, receivers, multiplexers etc. The Direct to Home service providers needs to have rental satellite Ku-band transponders. The subscriber needs to install a Set-Top Box and a Dish Antenna that decodes and converts the signal received from the satellite to data, audio and video signals.

DTH brands in India

The country of India has got many Direct to Home service providers, names of some of which are mentioned below:

• Airtel Digital
• Dish TV
• Doordarshan DTH
• Reliance Big TV
• Sun Direct
• TataSky
• Videocon D2H

In this era of competition, each of these Indian DTH brands has got tough competition among them in every field starting from marketing to promotion, sales to after sales services. This increasing competition in the DTH market makes these DTH brands introduce and modify the different packages offered by them from time to time so that they can take care of one's requirements and budget. Thus, before subscribing DTH service, one need to carefully compare and consider the varied aspects like picture quality, package pricing, packages and plans as well as other value additions and then choose the best DTH brand.

Top DTH brands in India

Following are the top 5 DTH brands in India:

Tata Sky: Being one of the top most DTH service providers in the nation, Tata Sky offers quality service. The varied packages offered by them mostly include all major channels, best HD (High Definition) options with picture clarity and good audibility, which makes this brand the best DTH brand in India. They are the first one to launch High Definition and personal video recorder.

Sun DTV: Apart from including most of the popular channels, Sun DTV, one of the best DTH brands of the country, even value for the subscriber's money. However, they have their network strongly spread more over southern India than the other part of the nation.

Dish TV: Dish TV, a sister concern of Zee, is one of the DTH market leader. This is the best DTH brand to be chosen by a movie buff since it has dedicated 3 to 4 channels just for non-stop movies, where one can watch break free new and old films. Presently they have 20 audio and 250 TV channels. Though this service provider has got a huge network spread over the country still and are the first DTH brand to have reached 80 lakhs of subscribers, but the fact that they do not provide channels like NEO cricket as well as NEO sports, who for the next 3 years, has the right to broadcast every match held in the country of India.

Videocon DTH: Videocon DTH brand has made their service unique by offering choice for the built-in DTH device and video player with their company made digital TVs. This feature is even compatible with other independent television sets as well.

Airtel Digital TV: Besides providing some of the best packages available in the national DTH market, Airtel Digital TV offers a good quality service. At times, the satellite feed suffers though.

Last Updated on 11/15/2011