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In the United States Dish Network and DirecTV have been gaining grounds by way of their extensive and variegated programming. Both the satellite TV services deliver great blend of TV programming covering various aspects of human interest such as sports, music, news, entertainment, movies and so on. Also international programming of many foreign languages are delivered by the two satellite TV services in U.S. Dish Network delivers almost 28 international language and DirecTV delivers nearly 9 international language to their respective subscribers. This article consists an explanation of Hindi-language packages available in Dish Network and DirecTV as well as a side-by-side comparison of the two.
Hindi-language package in Dish Network: Dish Network delivers many Hindi-language packages to subscribers. Selecting packages as per their convenience, subscribers can access great variety of Hindi-language programming. A total of 35 Hindi-language packages are provided to subscribers of Dish network. All these packages are explained below in short.
Hindi Mega Pack: Hindi Mega Pack drives home blockbuster movies, music videos, actions mixed thrillers, reality shows, sitcoms, family drama, updated news, lifestyle shows and many more. This pack includes 17 Hindi-language channels consisting of many popular channels such as Zee TV, Sony Entertainment Television Asia, Star India One, Star India Plus and many more.
Hindi Super Pack: Hindi Super Pack brings home all top-rated Hindi channels ranging from reality shows, family dramas to sitcoms and comedy shows. A total of 9 channels including top-rated Hindi channels such as Aapka Colors, Zee TV, SAB and many more are available in this pack.
Hindi Elite Pack: Hindi Elite Pack drives home a total of 4 popular Hindi channels with multitude of Hindi-language programming. Sony Entertainment Television Asia, Star India One, Star India Plus and Zee TV are the channels available in this package.
Hindi- NDTV Imagine & Aapka Colors: This package drives home 2 Hindi-language entertainment channels namely NDTV Imagine and Aapka Colors. These two channels deliver daily soaps, TV shows, sitcoms and lots of other entertaining programs.
Hindi-SAB & Aapka Colors: This package consists of 2 channels viz. SAB and Aapka Colors. Both the channels are bundled with daily soaps, comedy shows, talk shows and many more.
Hindi-SAB & NDTV Imagine : This Hind package of Dish Network drives home two popular Hindi channels namely SAB and NDTV Imagine. Subscribers can access lots of entertainment programming in these two channels.
Hindi Sahara One & Aapka Colors: Hindi Sahara One and Aapka Colors are the 2 channels available in this package. Both these channels comprise different programming viz. movies, music, sitcoms, daily soaps and many more.
Hindi-Sahara One & NDTV Imagine: This package constitute two Hindi channels namely Sahara One and NDTV Imagine. Both these channels drive home variety of programming ranging from movies, music, to daily soaps, TV shows and many more.
Hindi-Sahara One & SAB: This package of Hindi channels of Dish Network consists of two channels namely Sahara One and SAB. With this package, subscribers can access a number of soaps, movies, music any many other favorite programming.
Hindi-Sahara One & Star India One: With this package subscribers of Dish Network can access two major Hindi channels namely Sahara One and Star India One. Both these channels come home with movies, music, daily soaps that are favorite of number of subscribers.
Sahara One & TV Asia: This package drives home two channels namely Sahara One and TV Asia. Both these channels deliver a wide variety of programming from news, dramas, game shows to children shows, music and many more.
Hindi-Sony & Aapka Colors: This package comprise two major Hindi channels namely Sony and Aapka Colors. Both the channels and especially Sony Entertainment Television Asia are highly popular. Game shows, live musical concerts, reality shows, music videos, movies and a multitude of other programming can be accessed via the channels of this package.
Hindi-Sony & NDTV Imagine: This package consists of two major Hindi channels viz. Sony Entertainment Television Asia and NDTV Imagine. A variety of TV programming from reality shows, live concerts, movies to music, talk shows and many more can be accessed via these two popular Hindi television networks of India.
Sony & SAB: This package of Dish Network provides two channels. Subscribing this package, subscribers can enjoy watching via Sony and SAB different programming from daily soaps, comedy shows, music videos to live concerts, movies and many more.
Hindi-Sony & Sahara One: Sony Entertainment Television Asia and Sahara One are the two channels included in this package. These two channels comprise a number of popular programming from action-mixed thrillers, movies, reality shows, live concerts to music videos, game shows, talk shows and many more.
Hindi-Sony & Star India One: This package of Dish Network includes two important Hindi-language channels. Subscribers of this package can enjoy watching a number of enterainment programming from movies, music videos, reality shows, talk shows to live concerts, comedy shows and many more.
Hindi-Sony & TV Asia: Sony Entertainment Television and TV Asia are two channels available in this programming package of Dish Network. Subscribers can access numerous TV programming from music, movies to reality shows, daily soaps and many more.
Hindi-Star India One and Aapka Colors: Star India One and Aapka Colors are the two channels available in this package. Multitude of programs can be accessed from movies, music, talk shows and many more.
Hindi- Star India One & NDTV Imagine: This package drives home two channels namely NDTV Imagine and Star India One. Both these channels are bundled with different TV programming such as movies, music, game shows, daily soaps that are the favorite aspects of almost all subscribers.
Hindi-Star India One & SAB: Star India One and SAB are the two Hindi-language channels that can be accessed via this package. Subscribing this package multitude of programming from music, movies, daily soaps and other favorites of subscribers can be accessed.
Hindi-TV Asia & Aapka Colors: This package comprises two channels namely TV Asia and Aapka Colors. Different programming from movies, music, reality shows to daily soaps and sitcoms are delivered by this programming packages.
Hindi-TV Asia & NDTV Imagine: This package drives home two channels namely TV Asia and NDTV Imagine. The channels drive home lots of entertainment programming that subscribers love to watch. The different programming delivered via this package include daily soaps, sitcoms, movies, talk shows, music videos and many more.
Hindi-TV Asia & SAB: TV Asia and SAB are two channels that are delivered via this package. Different programming such as movies, music, daily soaps, dramas and many more are delivered in this package.
Hindi-TV Asia & Star India One: TV Asia and Star India are two popular Hindi-language channels that are delivered to subscribers via this package. With this package subscribers can enjoy watching different programming such as movies, music, soaps and many more.
Hindi-Zee TV & Aapka Colors: This package bring home two channels namely Zee TV and Aapka Colors. Programming delivered by these channels consist of game shows, live concerts, talk shows, daily news feeds, music videos and more.
Hindi-Zee TV & NDTV Imagine: Zee TV and NDTV Imagine are two channels included in this package. The two channels deliver different programming such as music concerts, reality shows, soaps, movies, sitcoms and many more.
Hindi- Zee TV & SAB: This package comprises two channels namely Zee TV and SAB. Different programming from movies, music, talk shows to reality shows, sitcoms and soaps are delivered by these two channels.
Zee TV & Sahara One: This package broadcast two channels namely Zee TV and Sahara One. The programming delivered by these two channels includes news, dramas, game shows, talk shows, children shows and more.
Hindi-Zee TV & Sony: This package drive two major Hindi-language channels namely Zee TV and Sony Entertainment Television Asia. Both these channels deliver a wide range of programming from game shows, live concerts and talk shows daily news feeds, music videos and many more.
Hindi Zee TV & Star India One: Zee TV and Star India One are the two channels delivered by this package. Variegated programming from movies, music videos, soaps, sitcoms, talk shows and many more.
Zee TV & Star India Plus: Zee TV and Star India Plus are the two channels delivered via this package. The package drives home a number of programming from game shows, live concerts to talk shows daily news feeds, music videos and many more.
Zee TV & TV Asia: This package of Dish Network delivers two popular Hindi-language channels namely TV Asia and Zee TV. Different types of TV programming from game shows, live concerts to talk shows, daily news and many more are included in this package.
B4U Movies/B4U Music: This package consists of two channels namely B4U Movies and B4U Music. B4U Movies is the ultimate source for South Asian music and movies in the United States. Whereas B4Um Music delivers the greatest musical hits from the latest Bollywood movies to Bollywood music charts and so on.
News Package: This package drives home three news channels. The three news channels available in this package are namely Sahara Samay, Aaj Tak and Headlines Today. Subscribing this package subscribers can access up-to-date news 24/7.
A La Carte: Apart from main packages, subscribers of Dish Network are provided with A La Carte channels where subscribers can pay per channel. Popular Hindi-language channels are present in the Hindi A La Carte package of Dish Network. The channels available are namely Set Max, Zee Cinema, Zee Sports America, B4U Music and Radio City. The channels namely Set Max, Zee Cinema are movie channels that broadcast the biggest and the best of Bollywood movies. On the other hand Zee Sports America is a sports channels that brings South Asian population of United States, sports shows, talk shows, news magazine, and other live sports from the Indian subcontinent. Another A La Carte channel namely B4U Music is a popular music channels that give access to the biggest musical hits from the latest Bollywood movies, the Bollywood music charts, exclusive star studded interviews, non-stop dance floor hits from both the U.S. and Europe's South Asian music scene, interactive request shows and many more. Radio City is an audio music channels where subscribers can listen to shows such as "City Spice", "Hum Tum", "Love Guru", Whatte Fun" weekends and many more.
Hindi-language package in DirecTV: DirecTV satellite service delivers a number of Hindi-language packages to subscribers. Each of the two package are bundled with many popular Hindi-language channels. Subscribers can subscribe to packages that suits them the best. Below is given a short description of the two packages of DirecTV.
HindiDirect: HindiDirect package drives home 10 channels. Some of the popular channels included in this package are namely Star Plus, Star One, Star NewsUTV Movies and many more.
Hindi Direct II: Hindi Direct II package of DirecTV comprise a total of 10 channels. Top-rated Hindi-language channels that can be accessed via this package include Star Plus, Star One, MTV India, Filmy, NDTV Profit and many more.
Comparison:
* In Dish Network subscribers can find a big list of Hindi-language packages, each packed with different combinaton of Hindi-channels. A total of 35 Hindi-language packages are provided by Dish Network to their subscribers.Different packages are different combinations of channels. Subscribers can select their favorite channel's combination from the big list of packages. But in DirecTV, subscribers have the choice of two Hindi-language packages. Though the two packages consist of major Hindi-language channels but subscribers have only two choices.
* Both Dish Network and DirecTV comprise Hindi-language programming that can be accessed via A La Carte packages where subscribers need to pay per channel. There are more choices available in the Hindi A La Carte packages of Dish Network than the A La Carte pcackage of DirecTV. Only around three Hindi channels are available in A La Carte package of DirecTV.
* In Dish Network there is a separate package including solely news channels. Subscribers interested in news can easily subcribe this package. Likewise packages solely dedicated to movies and music are also available in Dish Network. DirecTV possess two Hindi-language packages and different channels are included in these packages. However there is no package solely dedicated to news, movies or music or others.
* Packages with two channels can accessed for lesser price in Dish Network. For more channels subscribers can subscribe packages of higher subscription fees. The highest priced package consists of 17 Hindi-language channels. In DirecTV, subscribers can access the highest priced Hindi-language package consists of only 11 channels.
From the explanation and comparison above, it is crystal clear that Dish Network constitutes more varieties of Hindi-language packages than DirecTV. Subscribers of Dish Network can subscribe packages as per their interest. When subscription fees of different packages are concerned then packages of DirecTV deliver more channels for less monthly fees than packages of Dish Network. But Dish Network provides subscribers with more variety of channels' packages than DirecTV. Susbcribers can opt to the service that suit their needs the best.
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