Hyderabad, Jan 15 (PTI) To expand its DTH platform, Doordarshan plans to come out with new set-top boxes having MPEC-4 technology and provide 104 channels by March-end, its Director General Supriya Sahu said today.
DD Free Dish, its DTH platform, at present has 20 million subscribers, and is the market-share leader among the seven DTH players in the country, she said.
"The new initiative is that we are introducing conditional access system in our set-top boxes. We are getting into a new technology which is MPEC-4. So by March-end, we will be coming out with new set-top boxes for Doordarshan enhancing the number of existing channels from 80 to 104," Sahu told PTI.
