DD Free Dish Review - Should I buy DD Direct Plus?

DD FREE Dish Full Review

This is one of the most common question which people are asking now days. People are confused between Paid DTH Operators like TATA Sky and DD Direct Plus (FREE).
        
Let me tell you the truth. 7 years back when DD Direct Plus was launched it gained a huge popularity due to its "FREE" tag. Today, DD Free Dish has the largest market share and more than 18 lacs people are using DD Free dish.

As the time passed, after 2012, there was a shift in satellite from NSS 6 to Insat 4B. This change was needed as the demand for more number of channels increased. Before 2012, there were about 20-30 total channels available, but the good thing was the quality of channels. Today there are more than 65 channels available but the quality has gone down. The news channels have increased a lot which is a good thing but at the same time the teleshopping channels have took their spot degrading the quality of DD Direct Plus.


However, earlier we had only star utsav as the only Hindi GEC but today we have Zee anmol, Rishtey and Sony Sab. The TRP's for these 4 channels come from DD Free dish and that is why these will remain permanently.
In regards of Sports, the Indian Cricket matches are shown in DD National Regularly however the customers feel the need of a good sports channel as DD sports is not able to provide that quality.
When it comes to movies, then we have a collection of movie channels like B4U movies, Dangal, Enterr10, Manoranjan TV  and many more!

 However these show old movies with little bit of teleshopping which you will get used to it. The Latest movies could be seen on weekends on channels like DD National, Zee Anmol, Star Utsav, Sony Pal.
 
I am using this service since past 5 years and haven't felt the need to switch to paid operator. It has 24/7 news channels, entertainment, movies (old), music and regional channels too.


And all that you are getting of free from Prasar Bharti. Actually the inside reality is, you are paying TAXES!!  But as a hope, I think this service needs improvement in quality sector rather than quantity. I really hate those tele shopping ads. But otherwise there are quality channels from zee, sony, inx, dd, colors(rishtey).

UPDATE, May 2016: Teleshopping-Free Movie channels have been recently added on DD Free Dish Platform like Sony Wah, Rishtey Cineplex, Star Utsav Movies. All 3 are showing non stop movies without teleshopping. Popular news channel, Aaj Tak has also been added on Free Dish.

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