Set-top box shortage hits cable TV digitisation rollout in East

Even as the High Court has extended the deadline to June 4 for cable TV viewers in Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad to install set top boxes, a recent report of the ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) shows a baffling 194 percent digitisation ...

Television viewers in 38 cities across India were fuming as their screens went blank after the deadline for the second phase of digitisation expired on Monday, but Chennais couch potatoes were surfing channels on their old cable connections as usual.

The deadline for Phase II digitisation set by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has since come to an end on the 31st March, the switching off from analogue to digital would kick start from today. Though the figures of digitization ...

Cable TV operators here said on Friday they will observe a 48-hour blackout to protest the March 31 digitisation deadline and an unfair revenue-sharing model under the digital addressable system (DAS). The blackout will begin Friday and will last ...

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New Delhi: Twelve days after the deadline for the second phase of digitisation drive ended, the government Friday said it had asked multi-system operators not to cause "inconvenience" to viewers, indicating that it may not enforce total black-outs ...

Once again, as the deadline approaches for cable TV viewers to shift to Digital Addressable System (DAS), those who are yet to procure their set top boxes (STB) are worried about yet another blackout. The previous deadline was extended by the High ...