Is DD free dish free of cost? Where to Buy?

Is DD Direct Plus free?

Yes, DD Free dish is providing its services free of cost, without any monthly subscription. You have to buy only DD Free dish system.

You can buy DD Direct Plus system from your local market, and you can also find DD Direct Plus Set-Top Box and dish antenna from online websites like Amazon, Flipkart, CatvIndia.com and MarginPrice.com

What are the channels in DD free dish? or How many channels do you get with a free dish?

At this time DD Free dish is providing about 80+ MPEG-2 TV channels and 20+ MPEG-4 TV channels including two HD channels. So total channels are 104.
DD Freedish also airing 50 Educational TV channels by MHRD and Vande Gujarat.

Is DD Sports free to air?

Yes, DD Sports is completely free to air channel, it can receive free of cost from all Cable TV Network, all DTH services and including DD Freedish.

What is ICAS in DD free dish?

ICAS is encrypted service by Prasar Bharti, DD Free dish launched new set-top boxes with encryption it is available on Flipkart and CATVIndia.com.

Interim placement of Bucket R1 channels on for DD Free Dish platform.

Interim placement of Bucket R1 channels on for DD Free Dish platform.

Prasar Bharati invites application from Devotional/Spiritual channels including channels promoting Yoga, Ayurveda, Health & Wellness based on traditional methods to fill up reserved Bucket R1 MPEG-2 slots on DD Free Dish platform on pro-rata basis for the interim period from 15.04.2019 to 31.05.2019.

The allocation of slots shall be done as per amended policy guidelines (Clause (r) of Annexure-2 of amended policy guidelines) for allotment of DD Free Dish slots. Interested Channels are requested to submit their applications along with
requisite documents and demand drafts/fee on or before 11.04.2019 latest by 1:00 p.m. E-auction, if required, will be held on 12.04.2019.

DD Free Dish completed first e-auction for 15 MPEG-4 slots

DD Free Dish completed first e-auction for  15 MPEG-4 slots

In recent 39th e-auction of DD Freedish for MPEG-4 channels, Prasar Bharti earns Rs.400 crores.

As you know DD Freedish completed first e-auction for MPEG-4 channels, to fill all genre and language channels on vacant MPEG-4 slots.

Prasar Bharati set the reserve price of each slot Rs.5 lac, but bid increased for every slot and finally, Prasar Bharti earns Rs.400 crores.

Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar said on Twitter that each MPEG-4 slot fetched between eight to nine times the reserve price. The overall revenue from DD Free Dish is expected to exceed INR4 billion for both its MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 slots.

We want to inform you that MPEG-4 slots are not free to air, it will be available only in i-CAS enabled set-top boxes.

i-CAS set-top box widely available on online marketplaces and offline dealers.

Source : freedish.in

NAMO TV can be received by DD Direct Plus / DD Freedish Users

NAMO TV can be received by DD Direct Plus Users

This is good news for Indian Public that the Government launched Namo TV for awareness of 5 years of public welfare schemes and government policies of the Union government.

The NaMo TV is now 24/7 live on Videocon and Dish TV. If you are DD Free dish subscriber or own free to air system then you can get this channel by scanning your set-top box.

Here are technical parameters' to get this channel:

Satellite: GSAT 15

Position: 93.5 Degree East

TP Frequency: 11037

POL: H

Symbol Rate: 40700

Namo TV channel preparing to launch from a long time. The NaMo TV Channel was launched after the success of the NaMo mobile app which has gained major popularity within the short time.

The NaMo TV is available on Videocon and dish TV at 302 and 770 channel numbers respectively.

Brief Details DD Free Dish channels w.e.f 01.03.2019 Satellite GSAT 15, 93.5 E

Brief Details DD Free Dish channels w.e.f 01.03.2019 Satellite GSAT 15, 93.5 E

TS-1

TS-2

TS-3

TS-4

TS-5

Freq (MHz)

Freq (MHz)

Freq (MHz)

Freq (MHz)

Freq (MHz)

U/L-14140

U/L-14220

U/L-14270

U/L-14310

U/L-14350

D/L - 11090,

D/L -11170,

D/L- 11470,

D/L- 11510,

D/L- 11550,

S.R. -29.5

S.R. - 29.5 MSps,

S.R.- 29.5 Msps,

S.R.- 29.5 MSps,

S.R.- 29.5 MSps,

MSps, FEC - 3/4

FEC - 3/4

FEC - 3/4

FEC - 3/4

FEC - 3/4

CHANNELS(As per MPEG 4 set top box decoding)

1.

DD-National

17.

Test

33.

NT 8

49.

Big Magic

65.

Manoranjan

Movies

2.

DD News

18.

DD Oriya

34.

Test

50.

News 18 India

66.

Movie House

3.

DD Sports

19.

DD Podhigai

35 India Fashion

51.

9XM

67.

Test

TV

4.

DD Kisan

20.

DD Punjabi

36.

DD

52.

Maha Movie

68.

DD Rajasthan

Saptagiri

5.

Test

21.

DD Sahyadri

37.

India TV

53.

Zee Hindustan

69.

Test

6.

DD Bangla

22.

DD Yadagiri

38.

Ashirwad

54.

DD Bharati

70.

DD Bihar

7.

DD Chandana

23.

DD Malayalam

39.

Manoranjan

55.

DD Urdu

71

Test

TV

8.

DD Girnar

24.

Lok Sabha

40.

News

56.

Masti

72.

Test

Nation

9.

DD Kashir

25. Rajya Sabha

41

DD UP

57.

B-4U Music

73.

T TV

10 .Sky Star Movies

26.

Surya Samachar

42.

Dabangg

58.  NEWS 18

74.

Test

UP/Uttrakhand

11.  DD ARUN

27. Dangal

43.

DD MP

59. News State

75.

ZING

PRABHA)

UP/UK

12. B-4U Movies

28.

Bhojpuri

44.

Sony Mix

60.

News 24

76.

DD India

Cinema

13

Aaj tak tez

29.

Test

45.

NDTV India

61.

Republic TV

77.

Star Sport First

Bharat

14 India News

30.

Test

46.

Test

62.

Aaj Tak

78.

MTV Beats

15 News 18

31.

Test

47.

Enterr- 10

63.

ABP News

79 .

Fakt Marathi

Rajasthan

16 Big Ganga

32.

Test

48.

DD North East

64.

Zee News

80.

Test 516

AUDIO CHANNELS (As per MPEG 4 set top box decoding)

1.DWDS _Service

10.DWDS _Service

19 DWDS _Service

28.DWDS _Service

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2. AIR VBS

11.

AIR Gujrati

20

AIR Kannada

29.

AIR Ragam

37.

AIR Kohima

3.

AIR Telugu

12. Rainbow Delhi

21.

AIR Bangla

30.

Rainbow

38.

AIR Aizwal

Bangalore

4.

AIR Marathi

13. AIR Punjabi

22.

AIR Hindi

31.

AIR Urdu

39.

AIR Itanagar

5.

AIR Tamil

14.

FM  Gold Delhi

23.

AIR N.E

32.

AIR Oriya

40.

AIR Agartala

6.

AIR National

15.

Radio Kashmir

24.

Rainbow

33.

AIR Malayalam

41. AIR Rohtak

Chennai

7. Rainbow

16.

AIR Lucknow

25 FM Gold

34.

AIR Assamese

42. AIR Shimla

Kolkata

Mumbai

8.

AIR Vijayawada

17.

AIR Patna

26.

AIR Jaipur

35.

FM Gold

43.

AIR Varanasi

Chennai

9.AIR Imphal

18.

AIR Bhopal

27.

Rainbow

36.

AIR Shillong

44.

Gyanwani

Mumbai

16 TV + 8 RADIO

16 TV + 8 RADIO

16 TV + 8 RADIO

16 TV +8 RADIO

16 TV +8 RADIO