Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Zee channels back on air

According to reports being received we can confirm that all the missing Zee channels such as Zee Cafe, Studio & Trendz are back on air as of 10pm last night.

Initially earlier during the day the Nat Geo channels went off air but all channels were back on line by 10pm.

Please keep us posted on the latest on Dialog TV as the days progress.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Zee Studio, Cafe & Trendz down

The Zee channels - Zee Studio, Zee Trendz & Zee Cafe are out of service since last Sunday (Aug 16th) from about 7:30pm. According to information received the channel Zee Studio underwent heavy pixelation before it was taken off air along with the other channels. According to sources even LBN have been having problems with those channels but we are unable to confirm whether LBN has taken those channels off air completely.

We hope that the problems with the Zee channels will be rectified soon. Please keep us updated on the latest on Dialog TV as the days progress.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

of new upcoming channel and new order of channels.......

Dialog completed the process of rearranging channels on their DTH platform and have followed a similar pattern as before by organising them according to channel genre & language. Channel placements have changed drastically. At the beginning it is a bit difficult to grasp but once you get used to it then things will simplify further.

The new lineup is as follows

1. DTV Demo Channel (Play TV)
2. CNN
3. BBC World
4. NDTV
5. AlJazeera
6. Bloomberg TV

7. (Scrambled)
8. ESPN
9. Star Sports
10. Star Cricket
11. Neo Sports
12. Neo Cricket
13. Zee Sports

14. Ten Sports
15. MTV
16. Zee Music
17. Channel C
18. VH1
19. Star Movies
20. HBO
21. HBO Signature
22. HBO Hits
23. HBO Family
24. MAX
25. Zee Studio

26. UTV World Movies
27. Hallmark
28. Star World
29. Zee Café
30. AXN
31. Fox Crime
32. Fox FX
33. Zee Trendz
34. Australia Network

35. NDTV Good Times
36. Travel & Living
37. Discovery
38. Fox History & Entertainment
39.Nat Geo
40. Nat Geo Adventure
41. Nat Geo Wild
42. Animal Planet

43. KidsCo TV
44. POGO
45. Nickelodeon
46. Cartoon Network

47. Boomerang
48. Baby TV
49. UTV Movies
50. Zee Cinema
51. Set MAX
52. SET
53. Star Plus
54. Zee TV
55. Star Vijay
56. Kalaignar TV
57. Zee Tamil
58. Vasantham TV
59. Eye
60. Rupavahini
61. ITN
62. Citi Hitz
63. Heritage TV
64. Derana
65. Swarnavahini
66. TNL
67. MAX Television
68. The Buddhist
69. Peace TV
70. God TV
71. Aarthi
72. Learn TV
73. Rana Roo

Channel slot 7 which is kept blank, we believe is for a news/sports channel since it has been grouped together with one of the two. It is highly likely that the channel will be a news channel and since several of our bloggers reported seeing the name "CCTV" at night on the lineup when the channels were being rearranged. We believe the new channel will be the English Language news channel of the Chinese state television broadcaster "CCTV - http://english.cctv.com/01/index.shtml".

In addition it seems that there is a quality improvement in certain channels after the arrangement, even the religious channels seem to be have undergone a quality improvement.

Please keep us updated on the latest on Dialog TV as the days progress.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Channel lineup rearrangement today from 10pm onwards

From 10pm tonight Dialog TV will be rearranging their channel lineup, we expect channels to be moved up and down the order. Dialog have requested all their subscribers to keep their decoders switched on after 10pm. The previous arrangement format would probably continue but we expect the new channels which were introduced recently which are now out of sync with the arrangement to be fitted in their rightful places. By the looks of it, religious channels and local channels will be moved down the order into the 4th transponder and hopefully bandwidth is allocated so that channels will be able to maintain a high quality throughout the day. In addition we hope that bandwidth is increased to the religious channels too since some of them are hardly watchable.

If that empty channel slot before Nenasa TV is not to be used, we hope that it is removed that the bandwidth used for other channels. In addition we are receiving reports that Dialog TV have inserted some local advertisements during the cricket on Ten Sports yesterday. Additionally it seems that Dialog are now allowing the addition of single channels to package subscribers specially those below the Rs 500/= package. There are reports that these may be available for other packages also.

Please keep us updated on the latest on Dialog TV as the days progress.