Geek dinner on Monday
Rakesh has organized a geek dinner in Gurgaon on the coming Monday. Some of us from Tekriti are going to be there plus a bunch of other interesting folks as well. So do come over if you happen to be in the vicinity on Monday!
Rakesh is CEO of Snapstream - the company which develops a popular PVR software in the US. It will be interesting to hear his views on why PVRs have failed to take off in the Indian market.
Comments
Is there some form of regulation preventing it?
Vinod Kulkarni and some other IIT folks gave this a shot a couple of years ago. I can't remember why they failed.
Posted by: Santosh | March 11, 2006 12:34 AM
As far as I know, there is no regulation preventing it. In fact its the unregulated nature of the cable TV industry in India which makes it very hard. I hear that Airtel is going to give out PVR enabled set top boxes with its IPTV solution.
Posted by: Gaurav | March 11, 2006 11:39 AM
My Question to Rakesh would then be:
Should I keep my copy of BeyondTV4 with me when I move to India :-)? But seriously, will we see support from Snapstream for the Indian PVR PC market anytime soon.
Posted by: Santosh | March 11, 2006 05:20 PM
My (sly) question for Rakesh is: Should I take my copy of Snapstream Beyond TV4 to India? Is Snapstream planning PVR PC's there?
Posted by: Santosh | March 12, 2006 09:31 AM
Man BarCampDelhi was great, and I'm sure this will be too. Missed the boat this time, but hope to latch on to the next one!
Posted by: Hemanshu Narsana | March 14, 2006 10:33 PM