Hathway goes HD in Bangalore??

[madhavk8]

HD channels available in Bangalore Hathway: Star Movies, Movies Now, Zee Studio, Star Gold, Zee Cinema, Ten HD, Star Plus, Colors, Star World, CNBC, NGC, Discovery, Travel XP, MTunes.

Awesome. Did you ask your cable guy when star cricket will be added? Also like in tatasky do they give sony max hd feed during ipl? And lastly does the hathway hd box have recording ?

 

[gopichandpai]

Ok... Total count is 16 Here is the list
350-Star Movies, 351-Movies Now, 353-Zee Studio, 358-Star Gold, 359-Zee Cinema , 365-Ten, 370-Star Plus, 371-Colors, 373-Zee, 377-Star World, 381-CNBC, 385-Nat Geo, 386-History, 387-Discovery, 388-Travel XP, 396-Mtunes

 

[gopichandpai]

I think Star Cricket and ESPN will take some time. Probably a long time. They are very adamant it seems and asking for lot of money. Hathway HD box doesn't have recording. But they have a USB port which is disabled now. In the future with software update, they may enable it and provide recording feature like Dish TV is providing.

 

[gopichandpai]

They might give Max HD. When I asked a region manager he said they are negotiating.

 

[skbachoti]

Gopi, continuing on the 1080i question, does Hathway (and others like DTH) give it in 50Hz or 60Hz?

 

[canchi]

Yep, 16 channels it is, now HD on Hathway in Bangalore ! Great picture quality, awesome sound folks. It pays to be patient .......

 

[petes]

Atleast after a while we have some good news....Hurrayyy!!! we shall hope to expect more

 

[rahulxy]

@gopichandpai You must be quite glad that you didnt return the box now that Star channels have been added.

I wonder how they are coping with this in terms of bandwidth availability. Hope they dont remove some SD channels...

 

[gopichandpai]

I spoke to one of the senior technical person on Hathway. He told me, if they remove one analogue channel, it can accommodate 8 HD channels!

So after the digitization is complete, we can see many SD and HD channels on cable networks.

 

[cmsajith]

Any update on the audio part (thru' both SPDIF/HDMI) ?

 

[technobhatt]

How many of these and which channels are providing 5.1 Surround Sound ?

 

[rahulxy]

I spoke to one of the senior technical person on Hathway. He told me, if they remove one analogue channel, it can accommodate 8 HD channels!

So after the digitization is complete, we can see many SD and HD channels on cable networks.

1 analogue channel can make room for 8 HD channels! Wow! I didnt think that digitization would make such a big difference. I wonder when this process will start in non-metro cities.

 

[umapati]

I stay in Mulund-mumbai.i have hathway HD Box.Two days back they have added Star channels in HD package but have stopped Times nowHD, travel XD Hd..Dont understand why? Anybody from Mumbai..? facing the same problem.. ?

 

[rahulxy]

I wonder what "authorized devices" means in this post by 'hathway helpline'. Its at

Hathway HD - Page 10

 

[gopichandpai]

I guess it means testing STBs.

 

[gopichandpai]

Hathway provides 5.1 on Zee and Star HD channels.

 

[skbachoti]

I have a Philips 32PF7321 TV (not a full HD TV). It accepts up to 1080i.
I have put the STB in 1080i mode.

On changing channels it is taking 5 sec for the picture to appear. The banner in the bottom appears almost immediately, and sound appears after a little delay, but video is the problem. This is in HDMI mode. If I put the TV in AV mode picture appears in about 3 sec. And in normal TV mode (RF - coaxial) the delay is about 2 sec.

I have posed this question in a separate thread but got no clues. One mate said it takes 4 sec on his AirTel STB.

If it the Q of handshake between the TV & the STB, my TV Setup doesn't have any feature to set this.

Anyone among you who have connected through HDMI their Hathway or any other HD STB, have any comments?

 

[gopichandpai]

I have not seen how long it takes but there is a delay in picture to appear. I guess it is similar to changing the resolution on computer monitor. It goes blank and reappears after a second or so when the resolution is increased.

I don't think you can do anything about this.

 

[gopichandpai]

As yours is a HD ready TV, set the resolution to 720p. This will reduce the time taken for the picture to appear.

 

[doors666]

As yours is a HD ready TV, set the resolution to 720p. This will reduce the time taken for the picture to appear.

hd ready tvs support 1080i natively. As far as i know, all the tv transmission worldwide is max 1080i, no 1080p.