You must be wondering why the number of articles have gone down over the past week. Well, problems with health, kids homecoming and work at office – enough to summarize whats happening? 
Ok so what do we have new in Bengaluru? How about a few hotels opening up newly in the city? Or the BIAL cock and bull stories? Well in my own best interests I thought of going back to my line of work – set top boxes.
Bengaluru has just seen yet another service start up. You Digivision. Here is their Ad for digital cable TV boxes in Bengaluru.
Firstly a bit of gyaan on cable set top boxes. What is the necessity of these cable set top boxes when we have so many other boxes with dish antennae that can receive signals from the satellite directly? Well these cable boxes are of a different kind. Earlier we used to get Analog signals for all our channels over the cable that we fed directly into our TVs and could tune to any channel we liked and watch it to our satisfaction and hearts content. Unfortunately world over, the well known broadcasters are now moving their service to digital signals which our TV’s (read old outdated idiot boxes) cannot receive/decode and show us what we want on the screen.
The YOU digivision box is a digital cable box (perhaps its criminal to even call it set top box) which will precisely help in decoding these digital signals sent over cable and can show you those cool channels that you always liked to see once again on your TV. This box is capable of decoding digital signals and instructing your TV to show you the decoded signal. A very nice article by Mike on this phenomenon is available here. You must read this to understand more about this technology/box offering.
So then what is You Digivision all about ? Dont we have similar boxes like that already in the market? Did you think Tata Sky, or DishTV? Well those are satellite receivers with set top boxes. I was more referring to Hathway boxes that are referred to as set top boxes! These boxes only decode digital signals sent over cable. In my locality for example, my local cable operator who runs miles and miles of physical cables all over the locality has tied up with Hathway to offer digital signal decoding as well. So does that mean if I fix a YOU DV box instead of the Hathway one, I d still be able to decode all signals and view them on my analog TV ? The simple answer is NO 
. Why is this? Simply because Hathway would have scrambled the digital channels so that a smart card inserted into their own box is the only one who could decode these channels and any other box within their network will simply fail.
The features advertised above are hardly of any luxury for me today as any other provider gives those as default ones with the box. For that matter this box does not even have a PVR functionality where I can record something to a hard disk! So if a box cant decode the scrambled signal given by my provider, and does not do recordings even, I fail to understand what is so great about this box that I must buy it.
So if any of my readers want to add on something to this story of your own understanding do leave me comments!
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I’m also working on set-top-boxes and find it annoying that nobody is coming out with a PVR box. I have a hathway cable box and it also does not allow me to record. Life will be lot simpler if we have PVR.
well just wanted to know is this box with HDMI or is it just another foolish set top box
anuj
it seems from the first looks of it to be yet another set top box (foolish set top box!) any calls to their phone numbers after 6pm does not yield any answers
srikanth
why a set top box would have a PVR? will it not violate the broadcasters rights? I dont think it will come in future.. of course you can build your own with a ‘Popcorn hour A100′ or a ‘Pinnacle Video transfer’.
niranjan
it will not violate a broadcasters right to provide a pvr. the content you are recording has been already paid for by you. of course the basic premise of a pvr is for your own personal recordings and those that are not meant to be rebroadcasted from your end, like for eg, some movies. but if people use their crooked mind, yes then anything is possible!
also niranjan, the idea behind providing a pvr is that all recording facilities come inbuilt in a single stb and you dont need a pc for that with tv tuner cards which are capable of recording programs.
KINDLY INCLUDE NEWS CHANNEL- INDIA TV AND MUSIC CHANNEL ETC HINDI. THANKS
sadhana
This blog is not the provider for the service, for inclusions, you have to talk directly to You Digivision. The number is there in the picture.
Respected Sir/Madam,
I have a Hathway Connection at home & I also have a VCR. Please tell me how to record Hathway Signal (Cricket Channels) to my VCR. Kindly send me an email to himamshu.2008@rediffmail.com, if you have any valuable suggestions.
Thanks & Regards,
Himamshu S
himanshu
thanks for the query. firstly i dont own you digivision
i can only help friends like you on these things. from your hathway connection, you can use the video out (CVBS) cable – the red/white/yellow triplet cable – and plug that to your VCR directly. Once this is done, tune to your cricket channel, and you can record whatever is getting beamed. So then how do you also see it parallely? simple – connect another cable between VCR and TV!