In November 2012, Act Cable TV suddenly stopped Australia Network. After following up with them what they said that they were following "Indian Govt. direction" and they blocked the channel. I also observed they blocked QTV (Pakistan), Peace TV, RTV (Russia) but they were continuing showing DWtv (German), TV5-Monde(French), CCTV (China), NHK World(Japan). I could tolerate them no more.
When digitization of Cable Tv happened in Bengaluru (March 31,2013) there was a few days delay and I had a choice whether to go for a second connection again. IPL was also starting and two connections would be better for uninterrupted viewing at home (so I thought). The cost for 1 connection was 340 and cost for two connection was 560. Also fitting charge for new box would be 1500. Thus my yearly cost would swell from (340*12=)4080 to {1500+(560*12=6720)=}8220. I had even placed an order for a second box (without doing the calculation). But when ACT TV did a one day delay, I went online and placed order for Videocon D2H which cost me 5800 for 1 year. Now I have only one (D2H) connection and myself and my wife adjust ourselves and watch it at turns.
IPL also this year I am watching through highlights on youtube (mostly). Last year (2012) there was a craze and I used to try to watch every match. We also had two connections. The second connection was only terminated in June 2012.
Thus what I am saying stoppage of Australia Network was reason enough for me to become firm in abandoning my old address once (early 2011) and going for D2H in the next (April 2013). Already I had stopped TV watching during my SAP Certification preparation. After one failed attempt in August 31 2012, I doubled my efforts and qualified on October 17 2012. Then we had a small trip to Shirdi and Mumbai and then returned to Bengaluru October end. But from Nov beginning Australia network was blocked. I was devastated.
Let me go back to 1999 for Western music discussion. I was at Mumbai and then I bought a CD player. Actually it was CD cum cassette cum Radio player. Along with the Player, I got a few free CD's as well. It was my first experience with audio CD's. As a child I had only seen Records, audio cassettes and MW (Medium Wave) and SW(Short Wave) radio. FM radio also I first experienced it in Mumbai. As original Audio CD's were way to expensive, I bought several audio cassettes. Prominent English ones like Duran Duran, Matrix soundtrack, Boyzone to name a few. I used to listen to those. Then by the end of 1999, I had handed over that CD player to my dad and he took it to Bhubaneswar. That CD player gathered dust in Bhubaneswar till about 2006-07 when I got it to Bengaluru. Now it is gathering dust in Bengaluru as I am not using it and kept it in cold storage. Actually, the thing is we do not listen to much FM radio at home now except probably when we are driving the car.
In 2000, I requested my father to bring old two in one. Remember the red one I had discussed about earlier in another post. He brought it from Bhubaneswar to Mumbai. At Mumbai I had read about 'exchange scheme' and I got the two in one exchanged for a brand new two in one. The new two in one did not have CD player and I did not use the cassette player much.
But I had become a fan of FM radio. And Mumbai FM radio was good at that time(1999-2001). There was a lot of Western music. While on the move (either on local train or bike) I used to listen using walkman. The walkman was also a two in one but only used the radio as I knew from experience that if we get a content which is controlled elsewhere we have a lot more choice. Variety of music was available on radio. We cannot have hundreds of cassettes but the radio station may have and it can play those. Also I came to know that battery consumption was more when listening to audio cassettes. It was common sense actually. A cassette has to move to play songs. Radio is much simpler. Even now we can see that battery consumption is lesser while we listen to FM radio on mobile compared to when we play MP3 tracks (though mobile has no moving parts).
-Will continue later-
Now today I watched "Dus Kahaniyan". Small small stories made the approximately 2 hour long movie.
Watched it on D2H and I liked it.
When digitization of Cable Tv happened in Bengaluru (March 31,2013) there was a few days delay and I had a choice whether to go for a second connection again. IPL was also starting and two connections would be better for uninterrupted viewing at home (so I thought). The cost for 1 connection was 340 and cost for two connection was 560. Also fitting charge for new box would be 1500. Thus my yearly cost would swell from (340*12=)4080 to {1500+(560*12=6720)=}8220. I had even placed an order for a second box (without doing the calculation). But when ACT TV did a one day delay, I went online and placed order for Videocon D2H which cost me 5800 for 1 year. Now I have only one (D2H) connection and myself and my wife adjust ourselves and watch it at turns.
IPL also this year I am watching through highlights on youtube (mostly). Last year (2012) there was a craze and I used to try to watch every match. We also had two connections. The second connection was only terminated in June 2012.
Thus what I am saying stoppage of Australia Network was reason enough for me to become firm in abandoning my old address once (early 2011) and going for D2H in the next (April 2013). Already I had stopped TV watching during my SAP Certification preparation. After one failed attempt in August 31 2012, I doubled my efforts and qualified on October 17 2012. Then we had a small trip to Shirdi and Mumbai and then returned to Bengaluru October end. But from Nov beginning Australia network was blocked. I was devastated.
Let me go back to 1999 for Western music discussion. I was at Mumbai and then I bought a CD player. Actually it was CD cum cassette cum Radio player. Along with the Player, I got a few free CD's as well. It was my first experience with audio CD's. As a child I had only seen Records, audio cassettes and MW (Medium Wave) and SW(Short Wave) radio. FM radio also I first experienced it in Mumbai. As original Audio CD's were way to expensive, I bought several audio cassettes. Prominent English ones like Duran Duran, Matrix soundtrack, Boyzone to name a few. I used to listen to those. Then by the end of 1999, I had handed over that CD player to my dad and he took it to Bhubaneswar. That CD player gathered dust in Bhubaneswar till about 2006-07 when I got it to Bengaluru. Now it is gathering dust in Bengaluru as I am not using it and kept it in cold storage. Actually, the thing is we do not listen to much FM radio at home now except probably when we are driving the car.
In 2000, I requested my father to bring old two in one. Remember the red one I had discussed about earlier in another post. He brought it from Bhubaneswar to Mumbai. At Mumbai I had read about 'exchange scheme' and I got the two in one exchanged for a brand new two in one. The new two in one did not have CD player and I did not use the cassette player much.
But I had become a fan of FM radio. And Mumbai FM radio was good at that time(1999-2001). There was a lot of Western music. While on the move (either on local train or bike) I used to listen using walkman. The walkman was also a two in one but only used the radio as I knew from experience that if we get a content which is controlled elsewhere we have a lot more choice. Variety of music was available on radio. We cannot have hundreds of cassettes but the radio station may have and it can play those. Also I came to know that battery consumption was more when listening to audio cassettes. It was common sense actually. A cassette has to move to play songs. Radio is much simpler. Even now we can see that battery consumption is lesser while we listen to FM radio on mobile compared to when we play MP3 tracks (though mobile has no moving parts).
-Will continue later-
Now today I watched "Dus Kahaniyan". Small small stories made the approximately 2 hour long movie.
Watched it on D2H and I liked it.
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