If you're happy watching just the free to air (FTA) channels, you can indeed get them entirely free of cost by the end of the year. All you need do is install a set top box.
Currently, the various direct to home (DTH) service providers -- Tata Sky, Dish TV, Reliance Big TV among others -- offer various `bouquets' of free and paid channels, which cost between Rs 80 to Rs 1,200 per month.
With the new option Doordarshan is planning, you won't have to pay anything at all.
Doordarshan has its own DTH service already, called DD Direct, and it is free, but it provides only 59 FTA channels, most of which are Doordarshan's own. Now the government has told Prasar Bharati to prepare a proposal by which the number of FTA channels DD Direct provides increases to 200.
Doordarshan officials believe the move will be a game changer. "It will bring about the kind of change that occurred when the government decided incoming mobile phone calls should be free," said a senior official.
Source: Hindustan Times Soon, Watch 200 Channels Free, NEW DD's Improved DTH Service Coming
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