Despite large ads in newspapers, not many people have so far rushed to opt for pay channels (me included). The reason is perhaps we want to actually see what it means without a set-top box. Not that it affects everybody.
Those who are happy with just the daily quota of freshly baked news (like me) need not worry much. For, almost all news channels are what is termed free-to-air channels. And that includes Star Ananda (my favorite), Star News, Times Now, and of course the Doordarshan bouquet.
It’s still not known if NDTV 24×7 and NDTV Profit too are free. If not, I’ll be a bit unhappy because I see both and I like them. The other channels I like are BBC and NatGeo (National Geographic), but then they definitely are pay channels. Never mind, I’ll gradually get used without them, albeit may be temporarily.
Why temporarily? Because I’m not yet sure what is good for me. Is it CAS or DTH (see my post, DTH versus CAS)? Now even as Tata Sky is leaving no stone unturned to tell us its many virtues, I’m still sunk in indecision.
Perhaps the only way we the Indians prefer to learn is from others’ experience. Am I skeptical? May be, but then instead of being an early bird, who knows it’ll turn out that he who waits is more wiser.
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