By the time I landed in Bhubaneswar in 2003, Ortel had literally finished all the competition it had. Even all small Cable operators had ceased to exist. Ortel was the only Cable TV supplier in Bhubaneswar. Ok for a second lets leave Bhubaneswar and come to Bengaluru in 2005, I bough Dish Antenna, first a 60 cm one and then a 110 cm one.
Technology had changed in a decade. No longer did people require 8-12 ft dish antennas. Though big cable operators continued to have them. Small 60 cms dish was enough to get signals from satellite using KU band. The extra large dish antennas used C-Band. Also signal had changed from Analog to Digital.
But the reason for my fitting of the antenna was not met. There was no "Spice TV or Blue Spice TV" available, if you know what I mean. One guy even came and fitted the 110 cm dish but both were the same satellite. It was NSS-6 and all DD Direct Channels were in that satellite. Later, DD Direct went to Insat Satellite and Dish Tv is still with NSS-6. (I have stopped researching those).
Then I left the hostel in 2006, actually we were asked to vacate. My hostel was at National Games Village at Koramangala. It was a 7th floor flat. So I took the Dish antenna with me to my new own house and there it was kept as showpiece in the rack. The bigger 110 cm found space in the balcony.
Then in 2007, I had urge to refit the Dish antenna and it was not for the 'Spice' channels but for Oriya channel. I knew Doordarshan which earlier could manage only 1 or 2 channel expanded to 30-35 channels post DTH-Ditect to Home through satellite. There was channel for each language and region. I had fitted the antenna outside my balcony but the Society protested that the building would look ugly and so I got it fitted in the rooftop. Our building did not have roof. It had tiles and roof was kind of slanted. But there was a little walkway around those tiles and the antenna was fitted over there.
Later in 2008 August, I fitted Dish Tv in my flat but it was not my own antenna but our building had a common antenna and we were linked to that. Initially the person removed the cable and fitted the Dish TV but upon my insistence he came on Sunday and brought both Cable and Dish Tv wires through the duct.
Meanwhile, the bigger dish, i went to JC Road (from where I had bought it) and left it out there in the open for someone to scavenge it. I did not sell it.
Later, probably in 2010, I removed the antenna I had fitted in the roof and the cable which was just hanging(there was no duct) and threw those away. Actually, one watchman took it. But I did not give the receiver. The Receiver was of Beetle make and it was good to receive Free To Air Channels.
That Receiver I threw away when I shifted in new and present house at Bengaluru. The garbage cleaning people took those away aftyer checking with us if we had "really kept it".
When we shifted house in Bengaluru in 2011, I left the Dish TV connection at old residence. It was there, the box, for a long time. But in maybe 2012-13, I threw that box away. And this month i.e. May 2013, I called up Dish TV people and told them that my account may be removed permanently from their database.
In our new house we had ACT TV, a cable TV for a long time. Later we even took two connections.
In June 2012, I cancelled one connection.
In April 2013, I cancelled the remaining connection and have taken Videocon D2H. I checked with him if two cables can come through the duct. The Act TV guy said that since the duct is too narrow, two cables would not come and thus now I have only Videocon D2H and I can watch whatever is being offered by them.
For one they are showing 7-8 Odia channels. Act TV gave 3 channels and Dish TV (at that time 2011) had 4 and DD Direct plus one channel only and our Cable TV at old house had one.
Technology had changed in a decade. No longer did people require 8-12 ft dish antennas. Though big cable operators continued to have them. Small 60 cms dish was enough to get signals from satellite using KU band. The extra large dish antennas used C-Band. Also signal had changed from Analog to Digital.
But the reason for my fitting of the antenna was not met. There was no "Spice TV or Blue Spice TV" available, if you know what I mean. One guy even came and fitted the 110 cm dish but both were the same satellite. It was NSS-6 and all DD Direct Channels were in that satellite. Later, DD Direct went to Insat Satellite and Dish Tv is still with NSS-6. (I have stopped researching those).
Then I left the hostel in 2006, actually we were asked to vacate. My hostel was at National Games Village at Koramangala. It was a 7th floor flat. So I took the Dish antenna with me to my new own house and there it was kept as showpiece in the rack. The bigger 110 cm found space in the balcony.
Then in 2007, I had urge to refit the Dish antenna and it was not for the 'Spice' channels but for Oriya channel. I knew Doordarshan which earlier could manage only 1 or 2 channel expanded to 30-35 channels post DTH-Ditect to Home through satellite. There was channel for each language and region. I had fitted the antenna outside my balcony but the Society protested that the building would look ugly and so I got it fitted in the rooftop. Our building did not have roof. It had tiles and roof was kind of slanted. But there was a little walkway around those tiles and the antenna was fitted over there.
Later in 2008 August, I fitted Dish Tv in my flat but it was not my own antenna but our building had a common antenna and we were linked to that. Initially the person removed the cable and fitted the Dish TV but upon my insistence he came on Sunday and brought both Cable and Dish Tv wires through the duct.
Meanwhile, the bigger dish, i went to JC Road (from where I had bought it) and left it out there in the open for someone to scavenge it. I did not sell it.
Later, probably in 2010, I removed the antenna I had fitted in the roof and the cable which was just hanging(there was no duct) and threw those away. Actually, one watchman took it. But I did not give the receiver. The Receiver was of Beetle make and it was good to receive Free To Air Channels.
That Receiver I threw away when I shifted in new and present house at Bengaluru. The garbage cleaning people took those away aftyer checking with us if we had "really kept it".
When we shifted house in Bengaluru in 2011, I left the Dish TV connection at old residence. It was there, the box, for a long time. But in maybe 2012-13, I threw that box away. And this month i.e. May 2013, I called up Dish TV people and told them that my account may be removed permanently from their database.
In our new house we had ACT TV, a cable TV for a long time. Later we even took two connections.
In June 2012, I cancelled one connection.
In April 2013, I cancelled the remaining connection and have taken Videocon D2H. I checked with him if two cables can come through the duct. The Act TV guy said that since the duct is too narrow, two cables would not come and thus now I have only Videocon D2H and I can watch whatever is being offered by them.
For one they are showing 7-8 Odia channels. Act TV gave 3 channels and Dish TV (at that time 2011) had 4 and DD Direct plus one channel only and our Cable TV at old house had one.
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