Go for Tata Sky - Review

Just go for Tata Sky. As simple as it gets. No other options is even worth considering. I've evaluated all the options.I say Tata Sky is best of all. Clarity is just first grade. The entire process is just professional. No hassles what so ever. Right from the subscribing to tata-sky, installations, recharging the account is just seamless. It takes approximately 3 days to receive the set-top box. Once the hardware is received, call the toll-free number (for BSNL/MTNL) for installation. The Tata Sky guys gave a date when the installation engineers would come for installation. To my surprise, they landed on given time, a surprise given how we Indians operate. It took around 2hrs to finish the installation which includes fixing the Dish stand, the dish and the checking for the signal. Once this is done, just connect the set-top box to TV.

Connectivity:
Connect the A/V output of set-top box to A/V input of the TV, similar to how you connect your DVD player. The engineers who come for installation give you a good demo of all the features. The quality is just amazing even on my 1988 old TV. Now I'm thinking of not changing my TV at all :-). After the installation, you are given 3 days to recharge the account. There are two ways of recharging:
1. Telephonic recharge
2. Recharge from www.tatasky.com

I chose the second option. Just go to tatasky.com, register your subcriber-ID, use your credit card and recharge. It shows up immediately onto your account. Its approximately 30mins for you to get the alert on your set-top box. Oh!! yes, you do get alerts about your account status on the set-top box. The alert shows account balance, next due date to recharge account.
Over all, nice experience. Though I'm paying a little more than I used to pay my local cable operator, its satifying. Really satisfying!!

Cons:
1. The set-top box hung just twice. Solution is just to poweroff the set-top box and restart :-).
2. When set-top box is powered on (cold boot), the volume is just set to the maximum. So if you have speakers attached (like mine) beware of the loudness.