Commonwealth Games 2010 will be available on high definition (HD) mode, considered best in the world, through Direct To Home platforms to millions of viewers across India. Chetan Chauhan reports.
Commonwealth Games 2010 will be available on high definition (HD) mode, considered best in the world, through Direct To Home platforms to millions of viewers across India.
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India’s national broadcaster Doordarshan has decided to launch the country’s first indigenous high definition channel on its Direct To Home Platform, DD Direct, on September 1 to broadcast the Games, which would be shared free of cost with other DTH operators. Already, foreign channels such as National Geographic and Discovery are available on HD mode.
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It is part of the government’s decision to telecast the games on high definition (digital) quality for which the Central government has provided a budget of Rs 120 crore. Four high definition studios are ready at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkatta to enable the broadcast.
"We are already in talks with Airtel, Reliance. Sun TV and Tata Sky for sharing the content free of cost," said a senior Doordarshan official.
Sun TV is already providing high-definition enabled signals while others are in the process of doing the same.
"We are confident that most DTH viewers would be able to watch the Games on high definition."
To view the high definition signal, your television should also be HD compatible. Or else, the viewers will have to buy a special set top box to make their television high definition compatible.
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The official, quoted above, said that most plasma or flat screen television sets are HD compatible.
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To ensure that the signal of the games is of high quality, the DD has decided to launch a new channel to show games on HD for DTH operators. This new channel will be available on DD Direct, other DTH operators and satellite linked cable operators. Prasar Bharati, which governs DD, has already signed an agreement with a consortium headed by UK based SIS TV for production of majority of events on high definition quality.
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.
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