Dialog is shooting itself in the foot by removing a non cricket centric channel that focuses on sporting events that the subcontinent based sports channels don't focus on June 21st. Eurosports telecasts all major cycling events, Rally championships, Athletics, Marathons, Winter sports & 24hr Le-man races to name a few. These sporting events are not too popular in a country ...
Dialog does it again, the sports channel Eurosports that transmits many non-cricketing action such as Tennis, Cycling, Winter Sports is being replaced by a yet unnamed channel come Friday,June 21st 2013.The channel that will be added in favour of Eurosports is not known as yet, but it will likely be a sports channel, probably Star Sports 2, Sony Six or ...
According to information being received, Dialog TV has been granted approval by the TRC to issue the channels on the HD pack on an individual basis. Please refer the following link for TRC/DTV/Promo/13/01.According to the said document, it seems that the present HD pack will be available without the bonus channels for Rs 690/= exclusive of taxes. While the individual ...
Those of you who are sick of the advertisements carried on the Indian feeds of International channels over all the pay television operators in Sri Lanka can rejoice at a recent ruling that has placed an ad cap on channels commencing next month.As per the new regulations, advertisements on Indian feeds of channels will not 20 min per hour for ...
If any of you Dialog TV subscribers are wondering what happened to Comedy Central over the weekend - those of you who have subscribed to our Facebook page & Twitter have already been updated with the information. The channel has been suspended from broadcasting by the Indian government due to violation of broadcasting decency rules according to reports in "IndianTelevion.Com: ...
After some relative activity on Dialog TV over the past few months, things seem to have quieted down a bit in the recent past. After that SMS in early march about the free replacement of decoders for the premiere subscribers nothing much seems to have happened.We believe that the free replacements are almost complete, maybe about 99% complete. We could ...
With Dialog TV continuing with the replacement of "Gold" pack subscriber decoders to the HD enabled decoder, Dialog should now enable those on the "Gold" pack to activate the channels available on the HD pack individually or at least the channels available as "Bonus" channels individually or allow them to add them on as a sub pack.Those who are on ...
So it was a couple of months ago that we reported that there was a rumor of Sirasa coming on board Dialog TV by the beginning of 2013 and then later another surfaced that they would be on Dialog TV by Avuruddu. Well Avuruddu is just over a week away and there are no indications of Sirasa coming on board ...
It seems that the replacement of decoders for "Gold" package subscribers is progressing at a rather slow pace. The last time decoder replacements took place too, it was carried out slowly and never progressed beyond a certain point but this time it looks like Dialog will carry it through.We believe that Dialog is planning on making their HD pack "BONUS" ...
Over a month or so ago, a sms sent by Dialog TV indicated that all "GOLD" package subscribers will be issued the HD PVR decoder free of any additional charges.We are carrying out a poll on our facebook http://www.facebook.com/tvradiosrilanka to ascertain as to whether they replacements are being carried out. We request our fellow bloggers/facebook fans/tweeps to visit the link ...
With Star Sports 2 launching on monday. It's still to be seen if Dialog TV deprives its subscribers of the channel until capacity issues are ironed out or if it will be only the privileged subscribers of the HD package who will get the channel just like they get Ten Action.However if Star Sports 2 is launched only for HD ...
According to reports being received the Maharaja channels, Sirasa TV, MTV Sports & Shakthi TV will be launched by Avuruddu. This comes hot on the wheels of the news about upgrade to MPEG4 & the announcement of Gold package subscribers being updated to the PVR enabled HD decoder free of charge.Now we are not sure how Dialog will find the ...
According to reports reaching us Dialog is to go ahead with upgrading it's network from MPEG2 to MPEG4 probably MPEG4 DVBS2. An SMS sent last night to all "Gold" package subscribers indicated that they will be upgraded to the PVR enabled HD decoder free of any additional charges and a call from the Dialog Team can be expected shortly. This ...
Dialog is facing a major issue these days and that is the lack of capacity. There are many subscribers who want several channels but Dialog is unable to deliver. Recently we carried out a poll on our FB page regarding the introduction of "Comedy Central" over "Sony beTV", even though "Sony beTV" came out on top as the most popular ...
Recently Dialog TV added "Comedy Central" as a bonus channel on their HD pack permanently replacing "BBC Entertainment" which pulled out of this region. This decision was taken after juggling between "Comedy Central" and "Sony beTV". Are you happy with "Comedy Central" or would you have preferred "Sony beTV" or should Dialog have added a better channel... pls take part ...
According to reports being received Comedy Central has been taking out of testing mode and has been made the permanent replacement to BBC Entertainment. Sadly however the sound is out of sync with the video and hasn't been sorted out. This has been a problem from the time Dialog TV was testing the channel and hasn't been resolved as yet.The ...
According to reports being received Dialog TV has removed Channel No. 87. This leaves only two testing slots on the transponder carrying HD channels. This decision was taken most likely after a drop in quality was noticed on the HD channels. It is noteworthy that Dialog TV doesn't want to drop the quality of the HD channels after all they ...
According to reports Dialog has activated a further 3 to 4 test slots on the transponder carrying the HD channels. So at present Channel slot 85 is testing Ten HD.Channel slot 86 is testing Granada TV. (SD Channel)Channel slot 87 is testing Sony beTV. (SD Channel) There are reports of a 4th test channel but we are unable to confirm ...
Dialog TV is now testing Ten HD channel 85 of the HD pack. This comes hot on the heels of many requests by subscribers to launch Ten HD prior to the final stages of the European football tournament. With the addition of Ten HD, the number of sports channels on the HD pack increases to two.Ten HD which was part ...
According to reports the Dialog TV have allocated two channels for the launch of the Maharaja television channels namely Sirasa TV & Shakthi TV but sadly the Maharaja's who didn't want to be on cable tv and laughed at it's concept are not happy with two but want three channel slots so that MTV Sports can be included too.According to ...
