Over the past few weeks Dialog TV has been put in a position where they have to timeshare either ESPN or Star Sports with Star Sports 2 in order to accommodate the screening of the Formula 1 races. This mainly due to ESS India moving the F1 broadcasts to Star Sports 2. Due to the immense popularity of F1 in ...
According to reports reaching us, Dialog TV is offering the HD pack to all those subscribers, probably "Gold" package subscribers who have already got the HD set-top box. This offer is to last 14 days from yesterday or probably from the date of activation of the channels. Some subscribers have received an SMS informing them of the activation. This is ...
Well its been quite sometime since MTV India was removed unceremoniously, and despite numerous requests to bring back the channel from subscribers, there has been no statement from Dialog TV, not that they used to do that anyway.Channels are propping up in this region like mushrooms, some good and some outright lousy. One good channel that propped up recently was ...
It has been over a month since we made our last blog post, and after the removal of MTV India from Dialog TV and the conversion of some channels to MPEG4 DVBS2 nothing significant has happened resulting in the prolonged drought in terms of posts.There were reports of non premiere subscribers receiving the MPEG4 DVB-S2 set-top box, not the same ...
According to information reaching us, Dialog TV is now replacing STB's for subscribers who are on other packages. So far they have replaced only those who were on the "Gold" package & those from other packages who had subscribed to Discovery Turbo or Setanta prior to the moving of the said channels to the MPEG4 transponder, but recently it seems ...
Dialog TV which started testing Sirasa TV/Shakthi TV a couple of days ago, launched both the channels yesterday free of charge for all packages. This comes after over an year of rumours that the channels would be made available on Dialog TV.The Maharaja organisation which openly stated that pay television in Sri Lanka "will fail" and ridiculed the idea of ...
In the aftermath of the recent changes to the Dialog TV lineup. Those non-Gold package subscribers who had subscribed to Discovery Turbo / Setanta Sports prior to the channels being shifted are eligible to receive the MPEG4 DVB-S2 STB Free of Charge. For those who haven't it is still available at a fee. Please see the information given below for ...
With effect from today Dialog TV has changed the channel positions of selected channels on their platform. Accordingly the new positions are as followsNHK World - Channel No. 1Discovery Turbo - Channel No. 85Setanta Sports - Channel No. 86The two additional empty slots created as a result of this has been renamed to "Test Transmission 1" & "Test Transmission 2". ...
Commencing friday and into the weekend, messages have been scrolling on several channels on Dialog TV indicating an impending shifting on existing channels. As per the information the following channels will be shifted as of July 10thDiscovery Turbo will shift to Channel No. 86 Setanta Sports will shift to Channel No. 85NHK World will shift to Channel No. 01With Discovery ...
Over the last few weeks Dialog TV have been causing total subscriber dissatisfaction by carrying out unnecessary replacement of channels. The first was the replacement of "Eurosport" by "Shradda TV", then came the subscriber backlash that resulted in the replacement of "MTV India" by "Eurosport". Bringing back "Eurosport" was a good move, but sadly that was done at the expense ...
In the light of recent events, specially with the temporary ousting of MTV India, there are now renewed calls being made requesting Dialog TV to switch to a better feed of the channel upon it's return. The only alternative feed that comes to mind now is "MTV Asia" or maybe a switch to a channel such as "Channel V International" ...
In the ever continuing game of Dialog TV musical chairs. Dialog TV have replaced MTV India with Eurosport. It should be stated that since MTV India is the only proper music channel on the platform, the move is perceived to be rather controversial and is not being received well by subscribers.Having said that Eurosport which was replaced several days ago ...
Well let's start with the good news first, as of last night Dialog TV have started offering the channels on the HD pack as single channel offerings. This means that those who are in possession of the new HD enabled decoder can activate a few channels of their choice. Those who don't own a HD enabled TV can now activate ...
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 ...