DTH
Dish TV partners MediaKind to upgrade infrastructure
MUMBAI: DTH company Dish TV India, in partnership with MediaKind, has strengthened its infrastructure capabilities to enhance the customer TV viewing experience in India. Dish TV has upgraded and expanded its entire DTH platform to MediaKind’s AVP 4000 video processing platform to deliver enhanced, next-generation immersive experience to its 23.5 million subscribers in the country. The new platform will also assist in delivering cost efficiencies through better bandwidth utilisation.
With this, DishTV will operate MediaKind’s award-winning compression headend technology, which will enable the company to evolve and adapt to both traditional broadcast and multiscreen service delivery from a single platform. The platform, which includes MediaKind’s AVP 4000 System Encoder, allows DishTV to serve satellite operations for both of its brands and caters to the evolving needs of its subscribers.
Commenting on the announcement, DishTV India Ltd group CEO Anil Dua said, “As the leading DTH provider in India, we are always looking for new ways to deliver high quality viewing experience to our millions of customers. We are delighted to strengthen our longstanding partnership with MediaKind and leverage its compression technology heritage which extends more than 25 years. Through the deployment of MediaKind’s AVP technology, we can provide the highest video quality for our consumers alongside greater bandwidth efficiencies, thus enabling us to cost-effectively deliver the next-generation services to our subscribers.”
Speaking on this, MediaKind CEO Angel Ruiz said, “The media landscape is constantly shifting and service providers need to continually adapt to deliver the highest quality media experiences for consumers. At the same time, the increased competition from pure-play online providers means it’s necessary to do this as cost-effectively as possible. We are delighted to extend our relationship with DishTV and to continue evolving its service offering in one of the world’s largest video markets. Through the deployment of our state-of-the-art AVP 4000 system, DishTV will benefit from significant cost efficiencies and have the opportunity to launch new and highly compelling viewing experiences.”
This latest deployment will enhance DishTV’s operational efficiency by unifying the control and management of its two headends in an orchestrated manner. This will also allow DishTV to increase its satellite bandwidth efficiency and deliver superior picture quality to its subscribers, thus fulfilling the rising consumer demand for high quality media content choice.
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JC Flowers withdraws NCLT plea against Dish TV over EGM demand
Move eases pressure on DTH firm as long-running shareholder dispute cools
MUMBAI: In a breather for Dish TV India, JC Flowers Asset Reconstruction has withdrawn its petition before the National Company Law Tribunal seeking directions to convene an extraordinary general meeting.
The development was disclosed by Dish TV in a regulatory filing, confirming that the petitioner chose to withdraw the case during a hearing at the Mumbai bench of the tribunal. A detailed order from the bench is still awaited.
The petition, originally filed under Sections 98 to 100 of the Companies Act, 2013, sought to push for an extraordinary general meeting to address governance issues at the company. The case had its roots in a prolonged shareholder tussle dating back to 2021, when Yes Bank, then the largest shareholder, was at odds with the promoter group led by Subhash Chandra over board reconstitution.
JC Flowers had stepped into the picture as an assignee of Yes Bank’s stressed assets, effectively continuing the legal push initiated earlier. The withdrawal now signals a pause, if not a closure, to that chapter of dispute.
While the reasons behind the withdrawal have not been formally detailed, the move reduces immediate legal pressure on Dish TV, which has been navigating both operational and regulatory challenges in recent years.
For now, the focus shifts back to the company’s business fundamentals, even as the legal dust settles, at least temporarily, on one of its more closely watched shareholder battles.
