Bisquare offers STB technology for DTH

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, DEC. 12. An Indian technology company, Bisquare, is offering customisable technology for set top boxes meant for the much-awaited direct to home (DTH) television transmission. It is already negotiating with leading manufacturers and broadcasters for implementing the DTH experience.

The Bisquare Managing Director, Mr. Ramendra Baoni, said India needed to review its DTH intentions in the light of market needs. Technological gaps in the bill need to be looked at, he points out, as the legislation is not quite clear on the issue of technology standards to be applied along with the need for encryption of data and text.

Seeking to dispel confusion over the use of the set top box (STB), he told The Hindu that the DTH service needed an STB to receive and decode the encrypted digital transmissions. The term STB is also being used by some manufacturers to refer to the Internet TV device but internationally the digital television receiver is called the set top box.

Regarding the technology to be used for DTH transmission, he said, the Government had approved the world wide standard of DVB (digital video broadcast committee) for this country.

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