April 19, 2011

Wonderful online TV guide for India



Nowadays people spend more time on Information Box (Computer) rather than Idiot Box (Television). Meantime people do not want to miss their favorite program on TV. Earlier people used newspaper for TV program guidance. After the arrival of DTH (Direct to Home), people are using DTH channel guide itself. 

There are few advantages in DTH channel guide. For example, we can set reminder for our favorite programs. Meanwhile there are few disadvantages in DTH channel guide. For example, we should keep set-top box on switch-on mode.

Online TV Guide

Online TV guide is the solution for our problem. Here I would like introduce my favorite online TV guide. The guide name is 'What’s on India'.

Last two month I used this guide very often. I preferred this guide exclusively for cricket. I use this guide to know match schedule. Meantime I set reminder for my favorite matches.

What’s on India

What’s on India is an India’s most popular online TV guide. It is available at free of cost. It supports more than 500 channels. What’s on India is different from other online TV guide. 

Navigation

Navigation is the plus point of What’s on India TV guide. We can navigate between channels and programs easily. There is an option to categorize channel based on nature of channel…

  • Movies
  • News
  • Sports
  • Music
  • Etc

Channels can also be categorized based on the language…

  • English
  • Hindi
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Malayalam
  • Etc

Program list available for one week. Therefore it’s easy to navigate between the days. Moreover time slot can be categorized as…

  • Morning
  • Afternoon
  • Prime Time
  • Late Night

Overall the navigation is very effective. 

Remind Me

What’s on India has remainder option like DTH channel guide. There are two types of reminder available. The types are…
  1. SMS reminder
  2. E-Mail reminder 
Both these two options are simple and easy to use. We can set reminder based on following criteria…

  • 5 minutes before
  • 15 minutes before
  • 30 minutes before
  • 1 hour before
  • 1 day before
  • 2 day before

Interestingly we can set remainder for our friends as well. Overall What's on India is very useful guide.

Link: What's On India