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Nat Geo Wild is expected to officially launch on Sunday July 26th on Dialog TV completing the marathon weekly channel launch. With this channel there is just one more slot in Dialog TV 4th transponder for a channel. Some channels such as SET Asia, AXN Beyond Asia, BBC Entertainment & Disney Channels which were expected have not made it onto the platform as yet but I hope that Dialog will take steps to bring them on in the near future.

As mentioned before just one more channel can be added to Dialog TV and then for further expansion they will either have to secure another transponder or will have to go 100% MPEG4. The latter looks to be the option that Dialog is pursuing since they started replacing MPEG2 decoders with MPEG4 ones from last year.

It just maybe that the only slot remaining on Dialog TV maybe for "Prime TV" that is to be launched by ITN in the near future. However I am unable to confirm this.


I also have received information that the word "trial" that was used in the advertisement indicating the launch of Fox FX last week, was to indicate that Fox FX will be available FOC for all packages until December 2009 (either upto the 25th or 31st) and thereafter it will continue to be available FOC for Value Plus Rs 1949/= package only but will be available only as a SET Plan for the other packages. We hope that those who are using packages such as Super 700, ect can confirm whether they are able to watch Fox FX at the moment. I believe that this week's channel Nat Geo Wild may also be on trial for all packages until a specified date too.

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