Will SCV offer affordable service?
Have you guys noticed this new channel called Sony Pix? It’s is the only English movies channel I get and it is pretty good. Since they began showing pictures, I have watched All the Usual Suspects and Philadelphia.
. In CASed Chennai, watching movies on TV isn’t easy unless you are the kind to watch old B&W Tamil movies on KTV.
So Sony Pix has come a big relief for me since I don’t have a set top box. I am sure most of Chennai too can’t afford a STB. Who can? The damn thing costs around 3000 bucks. Now that the SC has ordered the implementation of CAS – Conditional Access System – in all the metros by December, we can look forward to SCV reducing the price of a STB. In Delhi, according to IBN report, the rent of a STB can be as low as Re 1. Cable operators have already come forward to do this and it would lovely for the SCV to do this too. But for a monopoly, such things can be difficult.
Right now, nobody gives a damn about CAS as it is implemented only in Chennai. We, being, “south-indian” in nature, have not voiced our protests strong enough for this nonsense to end. I am now eagerly waiting for other places to be CAS-affected before everybody starts protesting and/or reduction of prices here in Chennai.
Btw, SCV relayed football WC as well as the recent one day series in WI. So, are buyers of CAS losers??
just wait for few months…Tatasky dth is launched and we can enjoy all the programs without the cable…and with crisp videos and CD quality audio
just wait for few months…Tatasky dth is launched and we can enjoy all the programs without the cable…and with crisp videos and CD quality audio