Last Sunday one of my cousins came to my place and felt that my cable TV signal quality is substandard when compared to the set-top-box based offerings in the market. Today, I went to my cable TV operator in the apartment complex and asked about the plans they have. He talked about the Hathway Digital Cable TV service. For about USD50.00, I can buy a set-top-box and continue to pay what I am paying today (about 5 USD per month) for more than 130 channels. Got the equipment installed for evaluation today.
The quality is amazing. Except for 2-3 channels that have poor transmission quality, most of the channels have a near-dvd quality reception. The set-top-box has very good features. Took me about 10 minutes to explore the features. Here are some features I liked:
- The key channels used by my in-laws are programmed to the 20 favorite channel list. At their age, they shouldn’t need to learn how to operate multi-button functions of this remote.
- Impressed by the reminders facility.
- For the first time in India, I have the choice of selecting audio language.
- The menus are very intuitive and easy to access for most of the key functions. Like one-button operation for favorite channels, selecting the audio language, program guide etc.
I am either not very pleased or yet to know more about the following.
- A couple of channels are transmitting video that looks broken in digital reception (the same channel works okay, with lower quality, in the regular reception.)
- There are 4-5 FM audio channels, but not the most popular of the lot.
Overall, I think I am impressed by the service. I need to iron out a couple of pricing related issues and may signup for the service at the end of the two day evaluation period.
Hi raju , how are i just wanted to ask wheather australian network channel is avaliable on this hathway digital cable ?because theses is the on;y channel which is showing at these moment,it will be a great favour if you responde to these question .
Yes. That particular channel is available.
hi
can u tell me how do i set my favorite channels on hathway through
hathway remote
though i managed to set the fav channels but the same is not getting
saved
which button saves the list
also is it 20 or 10 fav list which can b saved
the set top i got has only 10
plz help
thx
could u plz tellme if sun music or ss msic is avaialble in hathway
Sun music was never part of the package, to my knowledge.
SS music was there till a few weeks ago, but it is not there now…
Hope this helps….