Tuesday, December 1, 2009

IPTV

We recently subscribed for the BSNL IPTV( Internet Protocol Television). For all of you who do not know what IPTV is, don't bother trying it out. Why? Because it sucks.... With a capital S.

The receptionist, or the term they give for it... customer coordinator is a lady with a sweet voice and as dumb as she's sweet. She will not know half the things you want to ask her, but the half that she does know will be explained with such enthusiasm that you don't get what she's saying anyway. So if you want to waste time and have got nothing to do then by all means call up this number 18602669929 and enjoy talking until you are unable to take it any longer.

Coming to its features, there is hardly anything to rave about. It has all the usual channels( most of them useless as always) and the few channels which you actually want have to be bought and when you actually buy all the channels you want then you will end up paying more than you would pay for your monthly cable connection. But one advantage is that it will not be prone to the vagaries of the Hathway cable and the clarity is quite good. It does get stuck occasionally due to the fluctuations in the internet connections.

Final Verdict.. NOT worth your money.. try TATA SKY or something else.

6 comments:

  1. Suggestion: Buy a normal cable connection, and ask service provider for a set top box kinda thing which gives you over a thousand channels. Only installation charges sumthin like 2000 rs. Later u only hav 2 pay how much u wud for the normal cable connection. 2 of my cousins have it, so I am not bluffing.. i wud hav got it if there was cable TV at my place :(

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  2. The really horrible thing about call centres is this...
    SGR calling Vodafone Care...Sir, good evening, I'm in Panchkula right now and i have a problem with my phone...Call Centre: sure i'll help you out with this problem sir...SGR: Describes in detail about the simple problem for 4 minutes... call centre: i'm sure i can help you out sir...the problem is, since yours is a bangalore number, its not listed in my Haryana index...please call bangalore..thank you, i'm happy to help..


    SGR calls Vodafone Care in Bangalore...namaskara, i'm in panchkula...i have a problem...again describes for 4 minutes...call centre: i'm happy to help...nimmadu pre paid a post paid a? SGR: prepaid saar...call centre: oh sorry sir, prepaidge i'll have to redirect you to our prepaid centre...hold on sir...again SGR describes problem for 4 minutes....

    the problem never got solved, that's a different matter...

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  3. Yeah...we have TATA SKY(Had actually..since its cut till may :(( ..exam time uc ..)

    Its pretty gud..:)).. I recommend it to ppl who r willing to opt for it! :P

    And the best part is..its like a prepaid network..in case u want to watch it for only 1 month or something...IPL for example..u recharge it ...it comes till u have enough balance.. and then gives u 3 bonus days to recharge...if u still dont recharge..it gets disconnected automatically!! :P
    If u want it back...recharge once again ;)..
    Pretty Easy :D

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  4. @Swaroop.. I swear.. first of all to even get to the vodafone customer care u have to endure an irritating speech and then it takes one hell of a time for them to reply.. thank god its toll free.. :P

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  5. It was not toll free from Haryana! it cost 1.5 bucks a minute! and i had to speak for almost 30 minutes :D

    and yeah...i guess DoCoMo ki jai is what ppl are saying now :P

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