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big tv failure or its technology?

9 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/big-tv-failure-or-its-technology.98162/

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vineyard Original post #1
Sep 21, 2008 at 10:41 PM
is big tv a failure or its technology? I dont understand too much of technology but big tv during their launch has boasted about their mpeg4 technology a bit. But as a product they have lot of technical snag viz. pixelation problem, voice problem, picture failure, STB not working. Are these problems due to the technology or it is a failure at reliance big tv's end.
desiibond
Sep 21, 2008 at 10:49 PM
^^ All that is due to the freshness of the brand.

I saw these

1) Dull picture
2) not so good interface
3) buggy firmware upgrades (after one firmware upgrade to bigtv settop box, my friend was unable to go to the categorized channel list on his bigtv)

It's still too early to decide on it's future

But those 32 movie channels do rock. Lot of time pass and that is something that others should start too instead of relying only on on-demand movies for extra entertainment.
blueshift
Sep 22, 2008 at 1:21 AM
Wot... 32 movie channels! Great.. I guess it has World Movies too.
desiibond
Sep 22, 2008 at 7:07 AM
^^ Those 32 are reliance in-house movie channels. Not the channels like HBO and world movies.

Apart from movie channels like HBO, world movies, you have 32 channels that are broadcasted by reliance exclusvie to their customers.
V
Oct 18, 2008 at 5:34 PM
i agree but just movie channels is not what a dth player is all about... they should improve their quality of service else the honeymoon period will end soon..
comp@ddict
Oct 18, 2008 at 6:10 PM
ANd luk, b'fore BIG TV settled, AIRTEL DIGITAL TV
VarDOS
VarDOS #7
Oct 18, 2008 at 6:25 PM
bigtv has great problems its MPEG-4 technology is crap...this technology is used to broadcast videos in compressed format on internet...instead of that MPEG-3,MPEG-2 is good...
R
RMN #8
Oct 19, 2008 at 9:04 AM
their remote is a copy of TATA Skys!!!!!
comp@ddict
Oct 19, 2008 at 12:48 PM
with Mpeg-4