Thursday, April 22, 2010

Tata Sky launches 3 new features for PVR subs

Tata Sky, the joint venture between the Tata Group and Star, has launched three new features on its premium PVR (personal video recorder ) offering, Tata Sky+.

The features include True Video-on-Demand (TVoD) service, dual access remote recording and auto standby technology to save electricity. All three value addition features will be available to existing as well as new subscribers of Tata Sky+.

The TVoD service will help users to sample 45 hours of content, which will be updated on a regular basis, as per their convenience. This will include programmes, movies and documentaries with different genres like travel, comedy, drama and food and drinks.

The dual access remote recording service will be available by the end of this month. With this free of cost service, Tata Sky+ subscribers can use their mobile phones or internet to access their PVR set-top-box (STB) and record the programme.

Meanwhile, the auto standby technology will put the Tata Sky+ STB in sleep mode, whenever it is not is use, saving the electricity.

Tata Sky+, available for Rs 5,499, claims over 100,000 subscribers at present. The total subscriber base of Tata Sky is over 5 million.

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