'Airtel digital TV Recorder' offers live TV recording via mobile phones

A convergence between the mobile and TV screen, Airtel offers customers the convenience, to record their favourite TV shows using their mobile phones. Airtel digital TV Recorder offers unique features of search, series recording and time recording.

Speaking on the occasion, Ajai Puri, Director and CEO - DTH, Bharti Airtel, said, "At Airtel, we believe that the key to our brand is innovation and technology is one vital element of our innovation endeavours. This product would be a lifestyle enabler that will significantly change TV viewing trends in India. It is also strategic as it brings together the TV screen and the Mobile screen. The launch underlines our key strength of understanding consumer needs and using technology to deliver a simple elegant benefit through the most ubiquitous element of ones life today- the mobile."

Airtel digital TV Recorder offers many unique features to customers:

HDMI port for video output
Stores upto 100 hours of recording
Option to search for any television show up to 7 days in advance using the remote
Option to search for any television show for 2 days on mobile
Facility to pause live television programme for upto 45 minutes
Offers ease of search by program name, show details and/or date/time using the remote
Provides program information instantly, including description, length and rating on the mobile
Convenience to record a single episode or an entire series in just two clicks using the remote
Option to give fixed time based commands to record show

Airtel digital TV Recorder will be available at a price of Rs. 6,990 across India for new customers and Rs. 5,990 for existing Airtel digital TV customers in India. You can avail the service by buying the digital TV Recorder from a near-by retailer and call customer care at 18001028080 for activation.

Airtel subscribers can send an sms from their registered mobile number linked to the Airtel digital TV account with 'mguide' to 54325 and download the mobile recording application. You can log on and record shows from any mobile, Java and GPRS enabled handset, by using your customer ID and password.