I have zero clue why this site hates motabhai and alleges his association with NDA. This election Mukesh Ambani publicly backed Milind Deora who is a congress MP. Link
here. RIL bought out Infotel in 2010 and converted it to Jio. This was in 2010 and who was in power? Link
here. No one from regulatory authority from Congress batted an eyelid back then. Jio started their network testing in 2012-2013 and their gameplan was ready even before 2014. Read the banned book "The Polyester Prince" to understand how Dhirubhai Ambani used his Congress political connections to build the Reliance empire from the 80's-90's.
The case is "Ayega tou Ambani hee" irrespective of NDA or UPA being in power. But associating Mr. Ambani with NDA exclusively is utterly foolish.
The current DTH scenario is fucked up. Yesterday itself, I got a Zee5 subscription pack for Rs. 699 (30 % discount on zee's website) + Rs. 200 Cashback if paid through
Amazon Pay. So a decent deal of Rs. 499 for 1 yr subscription of all Zee channels on 5 devices. I also got
Hotstar 1yr premium for Rs. 999. I am teaching my mom how to use Zee5 and Hotstar on our
Nvidia Shield
TV. For Big Boss, she can use Voot App or I can even install the leaked JioTV for
Android TV v1.0.0.4 to watch colors HD channels live.
To recap
- Zee5 for Zee channels (499)
- Hotstar for Star channels (999)
- Voot or JioTV for Android TV for Colours channels and other channels (Free)
- Amazon Prime (999)
Total cost comes to around Rs. 2498 for watching everything live. Compare that to me currently paying Rs. 11000 to
Tata Sky for 1 year.
The savings are real and cord cutting is inevitable. Trai doesn't understand the threat to DTH industry by making things super expensive to everyone. Compounded by Jio's killer entry anytime soon in DTH space.
If you don't want to buy expensive shield TV from US (Rs 17,000), get any Android 8/9 TV box from
AliExpress between Rs 2000-4000.