India´s DTH player, Tata Sky will be investing over USD 161 million to upgrade the technology in its current variation of STB and therefore will also replace the six million STBs installed. The upgrade will ensure that the STBs are installed with MPEG 4 compression technology enabling it to beam more channels from the same bandwidth.
Since 2010 Tata Sky has been installing STBs with MPEG 4 compression but there are currently 6 million units that were installed earlier that needed the upgrade. The company has announced that the boxes will be replaced in a span of one year. It is also planning on beaming 100 more standard definition SD channels. Harit Nagpal, Managing Director, Tata Sky said, “We are planning to include a spate of Tamil and Malayalam channels, besides various other language channels. This would enable us to plug the demand-supply gap in Tamil Nadu and Kerala markets in a big way.”
The integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) device for STBs offered by Broadcom Corporation, a company specialising in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, has been selected to enable Tata Sky´s first MPEG-4 SD STB. Tata Sky is a joint venture between India´s Tata Group and British Sky Broadcasting Group plc and it beams 200 HD channels as well as standard definition channels currently. India has 52.5 million DTH subscribers as on December 2012 of which Tata Sky holds 9.98 million subscribers.
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