New website for entertainment/online television has gone live today. The site describes itself as "a digitally integrated media platform" which is meant to serve the entertainment needs of Indian national across the world. So you can say its designed for Non Residential Indians. NRI TV.
The site will broadcast news and policy reports from the government of India. The main focus would be on what PIO (People Of India) would like to know. So what else the site will have? sports, lifestyle, fashion, bollywood shows etc. etc. etc.
The website has "Watch Movies" and "Radio Live". The radio didn't work for me. For movies, they have currently one movie under "Action" genre and that is "Kshatriya". Let me tell you that the quality of the movie is really really good and that too a full length movie.
Looks like Mr. Munish Gupta, chairman and CEO, PioTV.com has high hopes for this site. “We have a bit of YouTube, with surfers uploading their own content on the site, and we have a bit of MySpace, with our PIO Directory, where one can find the ‘who’s who’ of the PIO community abroad. This directory is our attempt to be a MySpace of PIOs,” said Gupta. (via AgencyFAQ)
The content of this website is available to watch for free but if you want to download it, it would cost you between 50 cents and $5.
What surprised me is that why Union Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs V. Ravi has to do anything with this launch ? Mr. V. Ravi unveiled this website in New Delhi. Why ? What is so different about this website than other entertainment websites like idesitv.com or other hundreds of sites which provides the similar "Entertainment" to NRIs for so many years.
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|2007-09-06 17:26:00 Munish Gupta - PIOTV.comMr. V Ravi saw the usefulness of this site in connecting India to PIOs and PIOs
amongst themselves, an objective Mr. Ravi has as Minister for Overseas Indian
Affairs. Also, please do look at the site and its various information (besides
entertainment) options as well as how it serves as a community platform to
realize the BIG DIFFERENCE between other entertainment only portals that are not
community platforms. Thanks for your interest and comments.
Cheers
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|2009-11-06 02:17:15 Mano Subramaniam - 12th Know India Programme - DelhiHi Mr. Munish Gupta,
Wish you good day & warmth greeting.
First & foremost to begin, I would like to extent my heartfelt thanks gratitude
to you &your dedicated PIO.tv team for providing & having such a wonderful tool,
the PIO.tv catering PIO & NRI connected across the globe. Applause...
My self, I am Mano from Malaysia. I met you in Delhi during the 12th Know India
Programme PIO.tv interview at Hotel Grand Sartaj.
As i shared my vividly wonderful experience & its excitement traveling 5 states
in India to my peers, it truly drew the picture in their mind. I saw India & its
people, from my point of view, they're just colorful. Indeed truely amazing.
Mr. Gupta, hope i can post a blog or an article regds to my travel experience i
had in India & also I humbly request you to provide me a link which could
connect to the interview seesion that we had in Delhi Grand Sartaj hotel with
the 12th KIP participant.
hope to hear from you.
thank you & take care
Mano
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Thanks for your time and comment on this topic. As you refer Community Platform,
it has a forum where the list of categories include Bollywood, Movies, Music,
Computer Forums, Books & Business. What is the BIG Difference here? Don't I know
a lot of community platform like this? For example, eCharcha.com is been there
for NRIs and serving the Indian Community for so many years. Yeah they don't
have Live TV like you guys have but I don't see any difference in this portal as
you are suggesting.