AIRTEL POCKET TV APP PRICE IN INDIA |How to Setup?

For Airtel Digital TV (DTH) subscribers, this is your cue to subscribe to Live TV on the move. Currently available only for Android devices, Airtel offers 150 channels on the app which is more than what any of the competitor offer.

Airtel Pocket TV App:

Right after Dish TV (DishOnline) and Tata Sky (Everywhere TV) started their Live TV streaming service for smartphones and tablets, the other major Direct to Home (DTH) player, Airtel Digital TV, has launched something similar. The app is called Airtel Pocket TV app, and is currently available for existing and new DTH subscribers, who are using an Android smartphone or tablet.

Setting it up:

Airtel’s Pocket TV app is a separate application that you need to download on an Android phone or a tablet. The service is not integrated within the existing MyAirtel application. Dish TV had also introduced DishOnline as a separate application, while Tata Sky had integrated Everywhere TV within the Tata Sky Mobile application. Depends on what you find convenient, but Airtel really had no option, because MyAirtel is the app that also manages mobile accounts, for example, and that would lead to a massive clutter within one app.

The first time you open the app, you will need to sign-in with your Airtel Digital TV customer ID or registered mobile number. This will take you to step 2, which would ask you to type in the One Time Password (OTP), which Airtel will send you on your registered mobile number as an SMS. Once this is done, the service will get activated on your account, for this particular device. The same process will have to be repeated on another device you may want to set up with Pocket TV.

Watching TV On Smart Phone: 

Live TV - This is the main point of the entire exercise of paying for and using this app anyway, and I am very happy to report that the experience is extremely good. What you need is a Wi-Fi or a 3G connection at a fairly decent speed, and the streaming quality is smooth. The quality is managed automatically, depending on the detected bandwidth. For a smartphone or a tablet screen, this is more than sufficient quality for streaming most content.

Streaming on an 8Mbps Wi-Fi connection is smooth. Tap on a channel icon, and it takes around 3 seconds for the video streaming to start, and another couple of seconds for the picture quality to settle. Tata Sky offered manual control over the maximum streaming bit-rate and the subsequent picture quality, but I couldn’t find such a setting in Pocket TV. For usage on 3G, the streaming quality would completely depend on connectivity and speed at that time.

Airtel is offering 150 channels on the Pocket TV service, at the time of launch. This is much more than what Tata Sky’s Everywhere TV and Dish TV’s DishOnline service offer. And the cost of Rs 60 per month is the same as what Tata Sky charges for the Live TV streaming service. However, the Airtel Pocket TV service does not have any sports channels available on the app as yet, and that puts it at a significant disadvantage. Both Tata Sky and Dish TV offer certain sports channels, if not all (mostly the TEN network channels are available, with Star Sports channels missing at the moment), and that is a real value add for certain subscribers. But, if you aren’t bogged down by that particular point, the service makes up for it across the other genres of channels.

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