TV With More Entertainment

Television is something everyone is aware about. It is one of the daily use machine in our life. People spend lot of money for entertainment. TV is something we all get entertained from and its the cheapest mode of entertainment too. I would say TV is one time investment, life time entertainment package.

Dance, Music, Movies, News, National and international all type of channels under one roof. And not only this. Along with TV channels that we are watching since a long time, now we get various applications and features too. Games, Shopping, classifieds, job hunt , matrimony, messaging, FM, video library and a lot more stuff are now provided in a single device i.e. your TV. IPTV and Direct to home TV are making this possible. Especially when the TV is running with the help of internet technology, then you can imagine what all it can provide. Yes I am talking about the Internet Protocol TV (IPTV). It can do a lot more with the word interaction.

Wanna play cricket? Just go to the games application and play it.
Wanna read a story? No need to search for a book, simply use your TV's remote.
Wanna have a mind exercise ? Play the puzzles and sudoku on your TV.
Wanna book a travel ticket ? just go for it use your TV.
Tired of searching a soul mate, TV comes to help you.
Wanna know your area's restaurant and hotels just surf your TV.
Well whatever you want to know your TV gives you the answer.

If FM on Saturday nights is your choice then listen to it on your TV only. Not only this video share is a feature which will definitely turn you ON. Yes! Share your picnic videos or your wedding videos with the help of your TV. And it is very possibly in India and its secure too. I saw this cool feature on iControl IPTV and since then have fallen in love with its applications and features. IPTVs is really a technology to look forward. Its letting you do a lot in the television world.

I must say TV is a total entertainment package. If 10 out of my 50+ friends are going out for new year party then rest are getting entertained through TV at home that too the whole family together enjoys. There are some IPTVs letting you browse you tube videos, what else do you need? No need to rush and buy tickets to attend an event when you get to watch it on your TV with equal fun. TV entertainment is no more with limitations of time. You can record the the shows you feel you will miss, but that is not all. IPTV lets you watch all the shows any time without even recording. It auto saves the TV content (shows) and the viewer can watch later the auto recorded shows. Let me tell you the IPTV recording memory has no comparison with the memory of your STB. Live TV pause-rewind is something that comes to help when your favorite entertainment TV show is getting interrupted. Triple play is the word adding more comfort and entertainment to your TV viewing. It lets voice, video and data to be accessible on your TV.
So when all the entertainment modes are available at a single place then you call it as a mega entertainment i.e Television.

TV - The new Playground for kids

Gone are the days when kids used to leave their homework incomplete, hearing the noises of the friends playing outside. The games like Kanche (marbels), chupan-chupayi (hide n seek), chor-police, phitu-gram, gulli danda, tipi-tipi-tap etc. etc. are rarely seen on the streets. Kids today don't even know the name of these games. Now parents are not concerned about their kid's injuries that they might get while playing outside, rather they are worried about the mental health of their kids and the eye-sights. All these concerns are coz of the games that kids play today – the Video games.

Digital games started with the small hand games gadgets called the game boy, that can be carried anywhere. Then the craze built up, kids started using the game boys with TV and then the game boy with QWERTY keyboard. I remember how much I insisted my parents for a game boy with QWERTY keyboard. A time came when the craze for game boy vanished and kids favorite was PC games. Kids use to stick to their PCs for hours. Many of my friends got spectacles on their eyes just because of this. Then the Play Stations (PS) came and they still are popular. All the PS series made a good money. Even the X-boxes gained popularity and still are popular. The only problem with PS and X-box in India is that they are costly for general public. May be that is why Online games became the playground for kids and also because online gaming is interactive & fun for kids.

Strange na ? Kids today love playing with their friends but in the virtual world and once there was a time when whole muhalla (neigborhood) kids used to gather and play. Remeber the time whenever there was a power cut and we all used to come out in mass and play hide & Seek. Anyways if I call PS and X-box costly then even Online gaming is costly and that is why the one very successful playground of today came to existance - The Television.

Television is the Entertainment world today and the entertainment is not limited its getting wider day by day. I'll talk about it in my next post for now lets talk about this post. Well nowadays many TV service providers are present and almost all of them provide the game application. So no need to get a game boy, insert a cassette and then play the game. You get all on your TV only. No need to spend money in buying the game console & other stuff. TV service providers try to put educational games, so that the kids learn while playing. There are a lot many TV service providers in India and different games are provided by each.

Tatasky provides Codered, Candyman, SpeedSpell, Monbase Mayhem etc. Dish TV got 3 Section for kids : MiniKids TV, Playjam and Quizzy and Big TV has iGames like badminton, basketball, chess etc. Even IPTV service providers like iControl provide a good collection of knowledgeable games like Sudoku, I2Quiz, Recognize Me etc. MyWay IPTV provides games like freecell, tic tac toe, tactiles etc.

No need to spend unnecessary money on those stuffs which you get for free. Kids love games on TV and enjoy them equally. Television is really a new playground for kids. In fact sometimes I spent a lot of time playing games like sudoku, Tic tac toe etc on TV. So not only kids even other age groups find TV a playground.

Your Favorite TV Service Providers Reaching Public

Advertising is something helping huge as well as small brands reach public. Brands come with unique & attractive ideas in the industry and promote their products through advertisements. They try to cover everything their product has, in a single Ad and thus expect more customers. You can see the two different brands of same product type, competing with each other in the Ad world. When everyone is gaining something or other through the advertisements then why would TV Service providers stay behind. Specially today when the TV service providers are spreading like fire. We have cable operators providing TV services, then there are DTH / Digital / Satellite Televisions and IPTV. Different brands use these technologies & thus providing the TV service. The DTH technology, has a good number of brands : Airtel, Tatasky, Dish TV, Sun Direct, Big TV and D2H Videocon TV.

Dish TV is one DTH service provider that I feel updates its image very often in order to reach people. It signed a big star as its brand ambassador – Shah Rukh Khan, with a slogan: Wish Karo Dish Karo. It was quite attractive tag line and when king khan himself says them with his star style, people simply love it. After the success of Wish Karo Dish Karo, Dish TV switched over to Sabse Zyada Wish Karo. Currently they are bringing the happiness at homes by saying Ghar Aayi Zindagi. The sweet advertisement having adorable baby girl, SRK and Tisca.
TataSky also promoted itself with a big star – Amir Khan. Amir who is known for his quality of work created magic for tatasky too. People came to know about tatasky broadly. Not only the actor but its slogan was also catchy – Tatasky : Isko Laga Dala Toh Life Jhinga Lala. The latest tatasky ads have a puppet explaining all its applications in a nice way. And when talking about catchy slogans Sun Direct : Ghar Ghar mein Sun Tan tana tan is also a good slogan.
Videocon d2h is the new kid in the DTH market, its providing d2h DTH service. The more focus of d2h is on static media promotions i.e. Banners, Hording, posters etc. You can find d2h hording in almost every busy street of Delhi.

The IPTV market too is in the advertisement world to popularise itself. With iControl taking the initiative of promoting IPTV through advertisements. You can watch the iControl promo on channels like NDTV imagine, IBN 7, UTV Movies etc. When talking about the IPTV industry iControl plays a major role. iControl is in 22 cities of India which is the highest number of cities any IPTV service provider is available at, in India. MyWay is another IPTV service provider, but its doing much to reach the mass as much as iControl is. In fact big names like Airtel and Reliance are also jumping into the IPTV industry. The big brands have not yet reached the media to promote them, nor they are trying to reach public at a large scale. iControl wins the race in case of IPTVs. It is not only showing Ad with slogan : Taki Rishton mein pause na aaye but its getting itself in to the public with the help of social media. You can find iControl reaching public through twitter, facebook and orkut. Even Dish TV, Tatasky and SUN Direct too are using social media for promoting their products. The social media is becoming a good source of reaching the public. iControl recently had seminars and press conferences in order to reach people and get a good amount of customers. So the brands are not leaving any source behind for the promotions and thus reach the people.

What did I miss this New Year Eve

Every one in my office missed something or other this new year eve. Someone missed his maid and had to cook the food. Some missed the drinks and others missed a grand party. Different people missed different things. But what we all together at office missed was a office party. Though had a small party on 1st January, but 31st Eve party is something different and more fun.

While talking about our new year eve, what most of us miss is a Good New Year TV show. All my colleagues had the same view about the television shows that we watch now on new year eve. The shows that use to come on DD national were worth watching and spending a good new year eve with family. I miss Jaspal Bhati 's show on the new year eve. In fact now what the TV got is the events on big stage having dance shows for new year. All that you see on television is one or the other star is dancing with 20-30 background dancers and there's a couple of anchors (host) cracking a bit of jokes in their conversation. I don't think such shows have any comparison with the shows that we watched in 90s. One single person had such a charisma that he use to hold millions of people sit on their seat and had a brilliant talent to make every single person laugh. And the comedy was so... hilarious that you can't stop laughing. Well its something not only me but many people miss.

The shows that we loved watching on New Year Eve, had good mix of entertainment, fun, culture, values and all that we loved. The Skits with a moral a lesson to learn, such things are something missing in today's shows. Now the theme is dance and a grand event making a lot of money through passes and tickets. Earlier the shows were not huge, the live audience was limited in number. The emphasis was on mass audience watching television rather than the live audience. The earlier shows had cultural values, they use to show some classical, cultural, folk dances along with some skits and plays about the general awareness. There was a complete package of entertainment.

I don't know why but now the TV shows are not close to heart. People watch one show now and they forget about it in a weeks time. I missed my new year eve this time. Had no plans with the friends as we all decided to party in RMT (Rajai Mongfali & TV) with family. Office party was a small event on 1st of January. So had not much to do on the eve except RMT. Had Rajai and mongfali at home but TV was something very boring. There was nothing worth watching on TV. Same dance shows with a crowded audience. So what I did on the eve? I had a good time sleeping on 31st Dec 2009 night and I just hope you people had an eve, better than mine. So what did you missed this new year eve? Just share your moments through the comments and have a fantastic year 2010.

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year.