PEO TV moving forward

After a few years of inactivity on PEO TV & mainly adding only local channels, its great to note that PEO TV are taking positive steps this year, now with the introduction of Setanta Sports on their platform. Sadly this still leaves PEO TV playing catch up & are still behind in terms of channels offered by rival networks.

The addition of Setanta Sports indeed is a major step forward and is a boost for Rugby fans on PEO TV. However there are still notable channels missing such as AXN Asia which is a basic and widely popular channel on pay television platforms.

We hope PEO TV closes all the gaps in terms of channels offered, and takes steps towards the launch of HD not before they solve all the freezing problems regularly experienced by PEO TV subscribers.

PEO TV woes - Picture freezing

We have received complaints from subscribers in several areas that the PEO TV reception gets stuck quite often. Even though advertise proudly that they don't have problems when it rains, it seems that PEO TV's problems occur when it doesn't rain. 

According to the reports, nothing is being spared from the problem, usually the STB displays an error message such as "WAN network failure" or something similar and the picture pauses and picks up elsewhere. This is particularly annoying in the event of some high action sporting event such as cricket.

Yes, other also have problems but there is no point in pointing fingers at others when you have issues of your own. 

We hope PEO TV resolves the problem with freezing pictures & provides a far better quality of entertainment that it does now.

Comedy Central launched....

PEO TV launched Comedy Central India with effect from yesterday. As the name suggests this channel broadcasts programmes from the comedy genre. 

This is seen as a positive step by PEO TV and will no doubt prove to be a popular one. At the moment it is available on a-la-carte basis of Rs 50/= and is available free of charge on the "Titanium Package".

We hope PEO TV takes steps to add AXN next, since this regarded as a basic channel on pay television platforms.

Ad's to be reduced on Indian feeds of channels

Those of you who are sick of the advertisements carried on the Indian feeds of International channels over all  the pay television operators in Sri Lanka can rejoice at a recent ruling that has placed an ad cap on channels commencing next month.

As per the new regulations, advertisements on Indian feeds of channels will not 20 min per hour for news channels and 16 min for GEC's (General Entertainment Channels) from July 1st 2013.

The regulations further state that from October 1st 2013 advertisements for GEC's & news channels cannot exceed 12 min per hour.

This only applies for Indian feeds of channels being received into Sri Lanka, most of the other feeds that originate outside Indian such as those from Singapore are more or less commercial free for the most part.

Source : Broadcasters finally accept Trai's 12 minute ad cap mandate

PEO TV adds TV5 Monde Asie & Rangiri TV

PEO TV has added TV5 Monde Asie and Rangiri TV to their lineup of channels. Ironically both are FTA channels, the first being international & the latter being local. PEO TV is well on course to have more FTA channels than pay ones. One would have thought that PEO TV would have worked out a deal to carry a channel such as AXN which is basic for any pay television provider.

In addition reports are coming of PEO TV broadcasts being interrupted during good weather, the picture tends to get stuck and the no signal message is flashed by the decoder in certain areas when programmes are being watched.

We hope the management of PEO TV rectifies these problems soon and we hope that "International Pay Channels" are added to PEO TV instead of mainly focusing on these FTA ones.

PEO TV to launch TV5 Monde Asie

PEO TV is reportedly testing french channel TV5 Monde Asie on channel 90. This is a mainly french channel that occasionally telecasts some english language programming.

From news, entertainment, educational programmes to sporting events they telecast a wide range of channels and is the asian arm of the the french national broadcaster that mainly caters to citizens of France and french speaking people the world over.

This is actually a good move by PEO TV to take steps to launch this channel. Although its still on its testing phase, the launch will probably take place over the next day or so. Since this channel is a FTA channel, we hope it is made available to all PEO TV packages at no extra cost.

It's time for PEO TV to take steps to launch channels such as AXN, DIVA Universal, etc on their platform.

Website : http://www.tv5.org/cms/Asie/p-5539-s4-z201-lg3-Accueil.htm?

PEO TV adds Varnam TV

PEO TV has added a channel once again, and this time it's the local FTA channel Varnam TV. After years of adding local FTA channels, PEO added a few international pay channels to their lineup only to follow it all up with a local FTA channel.

Sure one of these days PEO TV will have more local FTA channels than international pay channels. It's an interesting method of increasing the number of channels without incurring too many expenses. However local FTA is not what a subscriber pays PEO TV to watch.

It's almost an year since HD was launched in Sri Lanka, but there is no hint of PEO TV HD.

We hope SLT PEO TV management takes steps to bring the channel content of PEO TV on par with others.