Earlier TV was a mode of entertainment with limitations. Doordarshan gave India a start of TV with entertainment. Ramayana and Mahabharata were two very popular mythological programmes, everyone was crazy about them. But limitation was Timing/schedule, Ramayana used to get telecasted on Sundays, that too once missed no chance of watching that episode again. Then people got an increase in the choices of channels, atleast now you were not forced to view only Doordarshsan. We had DD1 and DD metro, two channels of Doordarshan. Humlog, Buniyaad and Nukkad were classics of Doordarshan.
After this even more TV channels got increased in number, Star TV, Zee TV and MTV came into existence. They found the solution of missed shows by re- telecasting them. Evening shows used to get re-telecasted in noon. A good approach but still with the constraint of timings. Its not necessary that you missed a show at 8 PM today and you are at home to watch its repeat telecast at 2 PM noon next day. But still a new thing came into existence with the demand of colored TV and cable network. Malgudi days, Dekh Bhai Dekh, Zabaan Sambhal ke, I Dream of Jeannie and Disney Hour made this era of TV rememberable.
This era also got a new thing for the viewers - The News Channel. People got exited with the arrival of an individual, 24x7 news telecast on a channel. Kids were upset with this as now their father comes from office at 6 PM and watches News channel as and when he wants. But then people got to see news updates all the time.
Another new thing that came into the TV world was characterization of channels. We now got entertainment channels like Zee TV, Start, Sony, News Channels like Aaj tak, NDTV, India TV, Kids Channels like Cartoon network, Nickelodeon. It not only gave the rise in number of channels but also rise in competition between the TV channel providers. This competition benefited the viewers, they got more and more options and services. Colored TV got new names now, Flat screen, LCD, Plasma, LED. This approach of improving the quality of TV for the viewers made the service providers active and even they started improving quality of picture from their end. This change in service provider's quality of service gave rise to HDTV, DTH is something that came few years back and people are very much aware of it. Ekta Kapoor's serials like Kyunki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi, Kahani ghar ghar ki, etc. and Reality shows - current favorite of viewers are the programmes seen on these new technology TVs.
This new technology gave birth to a new term added to TV - Interactivity. Interactivity, not only gave TV viewers more services like games, Video on Demand (VOD) etc, but it also gave the solution of missed programmes. DTH today is coming with the features with the help of which you can save your programmes for later viewing. Where DTH provides saving of TV programmes for a limited memory storage, the latest upcoming technology IPTV comes with even more higher technology where limited memory storage problem is resolved. IPTV stores all shows on TV on its server 24x7. Now we have more than 200 channels, so writing this era's popular shows is a tuff task and time taking too. All that we can see is its the era of reality shows and interactive TV.
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