NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s free-to-air (FTA)
direct-to-home (DTH) Freedish, which currently
has only 64 slots for television channels and is
expected to go up to 112 by March-end, has
received a shot in the arm for upgradation to 250
TV channels under the 12th Plan.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun
Jaitley told Parliament that the Department of
Space had agreed in principle to provide
additional transponders on new GSAT 15 satellite
required for 250 TV channels
Meanwhile, he said that DD was facing issues in
implementing Conditional Access System (CAS),
which is a part of upgraded system. But it had
now decided to adopt Indian Conditional Access
System (Indian CAS), which is being finalised by
Department of Electronics and Information
Technology. As was reported earlier by
Indiantelevision.com, DD is acquiring the
Bangalore based ByDesign India’s CAS.
Late last year, the Department of Electronics and
Information Technology (DeitY) approved a
proposal by ByDesign India to develop an Indian
conditional access system. ByDesign was to
receive a support amount of Rs 19.79 crore from
DeitY to develop the new system in association
with Centre for Development of Advanced
Computing (C-DAC).
The ByDesign model is totally indigenous and
built for DVB-C setup. This CAS solution will
enable broadcasters to control access to their
services by viewers, and thereby enabling them to
extend their business models to subscription
based schemes.
Apart from the TV channels, Freedish also beams
21 All India Radio (AIR) channels.
DD director general C Lalrosanga had earlier told
Indiantelevision.com that the DTH player will
switch over to MPEG 4 from the current MPEG 2
in two phases. “The first phase may begin by
early next month,” he informed.
Meanwhile even as regional channels of DD
switched over to INSAT 4B, DD’s main channels
have also shifted to GSAT 10, which was
launched in September 2012. The regional
channels were shifted in view of End of Life (EOL)
of INSAT-3A as declared by Indian Space
Research Organisation. Four new transponders
have been provided for these channels on
INSAT-4B by ISRO.
It has 12 Ku-Band, 12 C-Band and 6 lower
extended C-Band Transponders.
Now GSAT 10 started transmission on C-Band
transponders.
The channels that have been switched to GSAT
10 are DD National, DD News, DD Bharati, DD
Sports, DD Urdu, DD India, Rajya Sabha TV and
DD HD.
Department of Space sources told this website
that GSAT 15 satellite will ultimately
accommodate Freedish, as it has more capacity
of transponders to provide more bandwidth and
better coverage.
GSAT-15 satellite, launched recently, has planned
its mission for 12 years and this satellite will be
located at same direction of INSAT-3A /
INSAT-4B satellite at 93.5° East Longitude.
GSAT-15 carries 24 Ku-band transponders with
36 Mhz high bandwidth.
GSAT-15 also has two GAGAN navigational
payloads and 2 Ku-Band beacons. This satellite
will be use mainly for Direct to Home services,
radio navigation services and VSAT services.
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