For Airtel IPTV, these are the details:
Cost: there is an upfront cost of around Rs. 3000 to Rs. 4000 for the installation and the devices. And then there are 4 plans which vary between Rs. 400 per month to Rs. 1600 per month. The cheapest plan doesn’t include Internet. The other 3 plans have Internet available at varying speeds and they are all of unlimited download types. What you get for all this, is a telephone, a DSL connection, and the IPTV service, and 135 channels.
Picture Clarity: while I have heard a lot of rants about how poor the picture quality is, I run it on a 40 inch LCD TV, and I find it comparable to the Tata Sky that we are running on our other TV (which is also 40 inch LCD).
Support Services: Airtel has excellent support services and once again there is a website through which you can do all of your transactions.
Program Recording: this is where things start to differ a little. Airtel IPTV has live TV pause, rewind, and all those features of the DVR, but with a caveat. It only has these for 35 odd channels. Also, you don’t need to record the programs that you want to watch later. For these 35 channels, Airtel records ALL programs for a week. Therein lies the other limitation, if you want to watch an episode from more than a week ago, you are out of luck.
So, which option did we go for? We went for Airtel IPTV.
First, because we needed an Internet connection and a phone anyway.
Second, because it really is pretty relaxing not to have to remember that you have to set some program for recording. Also in TataSky Plus, there is a limit on how many simultaneous programs you can record. In Airtel IPTV, at least the 35 channels are all recorded for a week.
Third, because it was something new and we had the option since we already had TataSky on the other TV.
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May 10, 2011 | 
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