PEO TV's major HD debacle

Information is emerging how the inability to keep a business secret has cost PEO TV from becoming the first locally operated HD pay television provider in the country. According to information SLT has been upgrading capacity, etc so that PEO TV could go digital but the information leaked to Dialog TV which in turn woke up from it prolonged slumber and hurriedly launched HD.

According to information being received some PEO TV subscribers are seeing 1080i resolution options appearing on their screens but selecting them is not causing any improvement, since PEO TV is still in the process of working out their systems. Internal management problems has been deemed the major cause of the delay and probably the cause of the leak too.

Not all areas will have access to PEO TV HD services & the services are expected to commence operations from colombo. With PEO TV making the order for new Set Top boxes from UTStarcom, the launch is expected to be only a few months away.

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PEO TV preparing for HD launch

Hot on the heels of the upcoming Dialog TV HD launch. Information is being received on SLT preparing for a HD launch, with the signing of a contract for the supply of new set top boxes which are HD capable.

This is indeed good news for the PEO TV subscribers and also for the pay television industry as a whole. A time frame is not available for the launch but it should take place in a couple of months probably during the upcoming festive season. We hope the launch takes place much sooner though.

We wish to urge PEO TV management to allocate the HD channels wisely & price them affordably and not to repeat the blunders of others or make unique blunders of their own.

We also wish to request our fellow bloggers to share information using comments on any issues or progress on PEO TV as the days progress so that we can make this blog the central gathering place for all PEO TV subscribers.

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