Discovery Science & Turbo launched

After about 4 months of so called testing finally Discovery Science & Discovery Turbo channels have been launched by Dialog TV. Discovery Turbo will occupy Channel No. 1 slot and Discovery Science will occupy the slot which contained the Zing Channel. Discovery Science has been added at the expense of Zing, which is now also been telecast by FTA channel Siyatha TV during the day time.

The channels are overpriced at Rs 199 + taxes per channel. Initial information suggested that Discovery Science will be added free for the Emerald, Gold packages & Discovery Turbo will be added to the Gold package but it looks like both channels are free only for the Gold package and all else will have to pay additional to activate the channel.

Dialog should reduce the rates for these channels & and renegotiate pricing with Discovery Networks. We urge subscribers in lower packages to refrain from activating these channels at the extra cost thereby forcing Dialog TV into a position to reduce the pricing and add at least both or one of these channels FOC for a few other packages.

The next step Dialog TV should take is to drop another low profile Hindi Channel and add Ten Cricket since all cricket content owned by Ten Sports is to move into Ten Cricket.

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

Work properly Dialog TV & replace staff who are slacking in their job

Dialog TV needs a serious wake up call, in addition to the constant complains of severe pixelation & low quality transmissions that are being carried out. They cannot seem to be able to carry out updating their channel list if a channel is re branded. Looks like the CEO downwards are sleeping on the job.

History Channel became "Fox History & Entertainment" ages ago. But Dialog still carries channel list name as "History". Now it is understandable that the name is crazily long, so the least they can do is change the name to "Fox History".

CCTV9 became CCTV News a couple of months ago, but the channel list shows as "CCTV9". It is high time they updated the name to "CCTV News".

On September 1st "Discovery Travel & Living" will become "TLC", carry out the updation on the correct day.

On September 19th "Hallmark" will become "DIVA Universal", hopefully that too is updated on the correct day.

These are just the minor problems in addition to the major ones such as severe transmission pixelation, slow addition of channels, greedy price revisions. We can at this moment confirm that several subscribers have left Dialog TV and moved on to Indian DTH operators & many are to follow suit. The subscriber migration has worsened after the addition of new HD channels by Indian DTH operators at no extra cost. As a famous blogger mentioned on this site, when Dialog TV adds HD channels they will charge additionally Rs 1000/= per channel.

Whether or not Dialog TV likes to admit it, they are facing competition from Indian DTH operators also, local PEO TV & LBN are just pus competition. At the moment Dialog TV does not have to worry about local pay operators but they will be undone by Indian DTH operators and the undoing has already begun with this migration of subscribers.

It is very very sad that DTV does not know that their undoing has begun, it leaves us with the impression that the people are not familiar with what they are doing & are hoodwinking their superiors. It is time for management to take urgent steps and make some progress or HR to replace staff members even if it means to sack the CEO & replace him, if he is not doing his job properly. At the moment he is not doing his job and the staff are following him by not doing their job.

It is time for Dr Hans to check on activities within Dialog TV & make sure everyone from the CEO of Dialog TV downwards are fulfilling their duties properly. Over to Dialog Axiata & Axiata Group of Malaysia.

Wake up Dialog TV... Increase space for the influx of channels

It's a shame that Dialog TV has not taken any steps to increase transmission capacity either by implementing the MPEG4 conversion or increasing transponders. Management does not seem to be interested in adding any more channels. Discovery Science & Discovery Turbo are sharing one slot. Either they have to prioritize and add one channel permanently preferable Discovery Science and add the other channel after increasing the capacity. At the pace Dialog TV is progression that could be anywhere between now and eternity.

Adding to this headache is the fact that Ten Sports is launching Ten Cricket on August 10, 2010. The Tri Series involving Sri Lanka will be broadcast on this channel fortunately it will be simulcast of Ten Sposts too. However simulcasts will not last long & DTV will be forced to add Ten Cricket or carry out the insane slot sharing meaning subscribers will miss out on programming. The best thing now for DTV is to get rid of "Prime TV" and "TH TV" and add the Discovery & Ten Cricket channels.

DTV management, wake up and read this blog post. We have woken up before you.

We are still here!!!!

Fellow bloggers, it's been a long time since we made a post & we have been keeping up with the recent trends in the media but sadly we have not had the time to concentrate on this blog. We noticed that endless spamming is taking place, driving some of our fellow bloggers away however we thank our dear bloggers who are still making use of this blog to share information even though we have not done our part for a long time.

We thank you for continuing to use this blog & we will do our utmost best to do our part in maintaining this blog by keeping it updated. We will also take all necessary steps required to delete spam. Our the last couple of months, the Dialog TV management have taken steps detrimental to their subscriber base & would have rejoiced over the inactivity of this blog. Well the rejoicing will not last because we are still here to voice out the concerns of the DTV subscribers.