@Rishi – I think at the current rate DishTV would be cheaper, even if you buy a new connection/set top box.. I might soon switch over, but I am waiting for the new Tata Sky subscription changes by the end of the month. Will keep everyone posted.

@Ninad – If you are not moving forward, you are moving back. Tata Sky is doing that. Surprising thing from a Tata brand.

Btw, I never knew that LandMark was a Tata owned venture

These current events have disturbed me. Just this would not be too bad, but it gives a disturbing glimpse of thier attitude. If this continues, I would have to shift to cable, or DISH.

infact i should have read mouthshut.com before going in for TATA sky. I personally have had a very bad experience of Tata sky.

And guess what everytime it rains, the stupid settop box gives an error and says it cannot read the signal. I am from Bombay and so i think for the next 3 months there isnt going to be any TV for me. We get to know that theres a slight drizzle outside bcoz our TV stops working! strange eh?

“The Tata Sky guys know their marketing onions. They have created a good base of customers and are now shafting them.”
and Mr Srinivas you clearly don’t know anything about marketing. Even if TATA sky has a good base, as a percentage of indian population thats minuscule. Theres a great potential there and hence the entry of all the big boys of indian business like Reliance ( skymagic) or bharti.
besides the switching costs for consumers is very minimal; that is the reason why SRK is yelling on the top of his voice that the set top box is now free ; hence apart from new consumers even the existing TATA sky customers can switch to it easily. plus they are claiming to give 200 free channels which i hope is good.

the problem with TATA sky is that there are too few channels in the basic vanilla product you pay for. everything else has a price. i mean wtf! will these channels stop showing advertisements if i pay for them? NO! then i wont pay up! especially…it has to take really stupid people to pay for channels like ZOOM. whats more irritating is that , these channels don’t vanish from your TV but you get a stupid blue screen error message saying boss…you have to pay money to watch this channel. why not just remove all these pay channels so that i can channel surf in peace?

these cable and DTH companies have a long history of armtwisting the common public before important sports events like the world cup. I say all consumers shouldnt pay up. They will have to make the channels free eventually.

also since competition is hotting up with players with deep pockets like Bharti and Reliance joining the bandwagon i think TataSky will surely have to give more bang for the buck!

as for me…i think as of NOW, DishTv is a better option than TataSKy.

as i have already said ….

TATA sky laga daala, to life ka wat laga daala!

I already have the new packages; ordered them on the website. But the point is that they should have made people opt out, not in.

The Tata Sky guys know their marketing onions. They have created a good base of customers and are now shafting them. As you rightly pointed out, it was impossible to get a person on the phone; they just have a pre-recorded message under option 4 (add a new package).

We couldn’t hear it properly and we had to send three SMSs before we got it right. For the record, you have to send:
ADD SPORTS PLAT
to:
56633