Tata Sky Continues to Offer Most Number of HD Channels
For years now, Tata Sky is leading the channel department beating the likes of Airtel Digital TV, Dish TV and Sun Direct. At the time of filing this article, Tata Sky is offering 91 HD channels and over 500 SD channels. Besides the SD and HD channels, Tata Sky is also providing Value Added Services (VAS). Moving on, Airtel Digital TV is next on the list as it currently has 84 HD channels and around 525 SD channels. However, when it comes to Value Added Services and Platform Services, Airtel Digital TV beats Tata Sky. Right now, Airtel Digital TV has VAS like Airtel Shorts TV, Mahabharat, Goodlife, The Horror TV, Telugu Talkies, Spotlight, Let’s Dance, Hollywood Diaries, Miniplex and so on. Coming to Tata Sky’s Value Added Services, there are some of them like Tata Sky Seniors, Tata Sky Ibadaat, Tata Sky Aradhana, Tata Sky Telugu Cinema and so on. Tata Sky also provides free VAS service for the first ten days after which users will be charged.
Dish TV, D2h and Sun Direct HD Channel Count Detailed
Besides Tata Sky and Airtel Digital TV, we also have two more pay DTH operators- Dish TV and Sun Direct. Right now, Dish TV users have access to just 64 HD channels and a total of 420 SD channels. Similar to Dish TV, D2h also has 64 HD channels and 422 SD channels. There’s not much difference when it comes to Dish TV and D2h are the latter is owned by the former. Lastly, Sun Direct stands third on the list with 75 HD channels on offer. It will be interesting to see whether Dish TV and D2h plans to increase the overall HD channels being offered on the platform right now. Dish TV and Sun Direct does not have many Value Added Services like Tata Sky or Airtel Digital TV, so users will have to mostly rely on the standard Satellite TV channels.
