In the wake of Dish TV Sri Lanka testing local language channels, there are reports of some sort of channel updates to take place on April 30th. The updates we believe are actually nothing more than a re-sorting of channels on the list, however according to other information it seems that more channels are going to be switched to MPEG4, ...
According to reports reaching us Dialog TV subscribers who activated the "day pass" to watch the T20 Finals were in for a rude shock when channels didn't get activated as per their request. It seems that Dialog TV Customer Care accepted that this occurred due to a technical fault. Hopefully the charges are refunded to the subscribers if it has ...
Dialog TV's future may not be as firm as they hoped it would be. We have reports of subscribers eagerly awaiting the launch of Sri Lanka's newest DTH service provider "Dish TV Sri Lanka", which will launch soon. Dish TV Sri Lanka will pose the strongest competition to Dialog TV yet. Competition from Peo TV & LBN cable TV haven't ...
Dialog TV carried out a channel replacement yesterday that takes stupidity to a whole new level, pay sports channel "Neo Sports" has been replaced by free-to-air news channel "Russia Today". The move comes as a surprise since there was no indication to the subscribers that this was due to happen. The replacement took place all of a sudden last evening ...
According to unconfirmed information reaching us, Dialog TV have commenced parallel uplinking to locally operated SupremeSAT also known as ChinaSAT. We believe it's still on the testing phase and upon testing Dialog TV will commence the process of aligning subscribers to the new satellite. It is said that Dialog TV's agreement with Intelsat will expire soon and Intelsat 12 is ...
It's crunch time for Dialog TV. It has been announced that Dish TV will officially launch services in Sri Lanka through their joint venture Dish TV Lanka formed in partnership with Satnet. Dialog TV has been swapping, time sharing, replacing channels despite complaints from subscribers to suit their own whims and fancies. Just yesterday "Setanta Sports" was replaced by "MTV ...
With effect effect from yesterday, Discovery Kids in now available on Dialog TV & replaces the soon to be defunct Kidsco channel. As mentioned in our previous blog post, Kidsco which shutdown its European feed at the end of December will be ceasing all their other remaining feeds which are Asian & African feeds in the next few days.The Discovery ...
According to information coming in, Dialog TV has replaced/or will be replacing Kidsco with Discovery Kids India following reports that the Kidsco channel will be closing down their Asian feed at the end of this month.Kidsco which has been on Dialog TV for a number of years has constantly struggled against competition from Cartoon Network, Toonami and the likes not ...
Dialog TV will switch feeds of "Setanta Sports Asia" from tomorrow Feb 1st to accommodate the "LIVE" broadcast of the RBS Six Nations Rugby. This means that during the "LIVE" rugby, Dialog will carry a different Setanta Sports feed in the channel slot allocated to Setanta Sports.Firstly thanks should go to Setanta Sports for providing Sri Lankan rugby fans with ...
While it is commendable that Dialog TV is telecasting the SL vs Ban cricket series which is being ignored by the majority of sports channels in the region on a feed that should be largely commercial free but of course is being interrupted by Dialog inserted ads, the implementation of this commendable act has raised questions.Firstly the cricket is being ...
According to unconfirmed reports being received Dialog TV is to switch satellites from Intelsat-12 to ChinaSat-12 aka SupremeSat-1. Yes, this is widely known as Sri Lanka's first satellite.Although we are unable to confirm this development and the time frame within which Dialog TV will carry out this switch, we see the following reasons as to why Dialog TV maybe even ...
The year 2014 is indeed seeing some major changes when it comes to the content of channels on Dialog TV. The Australian Open rights has now gone to Sony SIX plus the upcoming New Zealand vs India series, Star Movies Action is now premiering top Hollywood blockbusters along with Star Movies. Not to mention many Sri Lankans were unable to ...
We take this opportunity to wish our fellow bloggers, the Management & staff of Dialog TV"A Very Happy & Prosperous New Year 2014"Thank You for your wonderful support during the past year and we look forward to a greater partnership this year.
Looking back at Dialog TV's 2013, it has been a mixed bag. With more replacements than new ones as always. The MPEG4 DVB-S2 switch over hasn't exactly gone the way that all hoped it will. With just two channels switching (Discovery Turbo & Setanta) and that too to make way for FTA channels Sirasa TV & Shakthi TV. The negatives ...
It's now several months since popular music channel MTV India was removed from the Dialog TV lineup and despite some strong rumors that the channel will return before the end of this year, it seems more of a dream than a reality.Just to recap, MTV India was booted earlier this year when Dialog re-organised few channels to add FTA channels ...
It's been a day of good news for all Dialog TV subscribers since Dialog have decided to replace the 24X7 Hindi Sports channel Star Sports 3 with Star Sports 2 with effect from tomorrow Nov 9th 2013. This is indeed a good move from Dialog TV considering the fact that Star Sports 3 will be carrying only Hindi content hereafter. ...
According to reports reaching us, Learn TV/HTV have been removed and in place another Nenasa channel has being has added called "Nenasa Grade 10" and the other has been renamed as "Nenasa Grade 11".Nenasa has always been scrambled for subscribers, we are not sure if it will be available for subscribers hereafter, its likely that one of them will be ...
Copied from TV & Radio Sri Lanka blog - ESPN Star Sports to undergo major changes... ESPN Star Sports to undergo major changes...Subcontinent feeds of sports channels ESPN Star Sports which are now managed by Star TV in India, are to undergo major changes from 6th Nov 2013. ESPN exited the joint venture last year resulting in the subsequent rebranding ...
According to unconfirmed reports, Star Sports 2 will be added to Dialog TV soon. This information is coming through various subscribers who are calling Dialog TV since they are mission certain sports events which are being shifted periodically to the channel from time to time.This would indeed be a great move by Dialog TV since they sometimes tend to replace ...
According to information reaching us all new Dialog TV subscribers are receiving the new HD PVR enabled MPEG4 DVB-S2 set-top box. However if they want to activate any of the HD sachets they will still have to pay Rs 2990/= one time start-up fee which has been presently waived for "Gold" package subscribers.This will mean that Dialog TV is setting ...