MUMBAI: Sun Direct, South India‘s leading DTH player, has launched a Standard Definition Digital Video Recorder box service, Sun Direct+, with unlimited recording facility that brings the features of pause, record and rewind at virtually the same price as the regular SD set-top box (STB).

The new Sun Direct+ boxes will allow customers to attach external storage devices like a USB drive and gain full control of their TV viewing through functions like ‘Pause’ live TV, ‘Record’ programs for later viewing and ‘Rewind’ for reviewing any program.

Features of Sun Direct+: recording programs you like from a channel as you watch it, schedule recordings up to a week in advance, pause any program on live TV and resume where you left and rewind and watch your favourite episodes or movies any number of times.

Consumers opting for Sun Direct+ for Rs 1590 pack can avail of three months of super value pack free, while those selecting Sun Direct+ for Rs 1990 pack will get seven month of Super value pack free.

Sun Direct+ is available with free subscription to the newly launched Super Value Pack four regional languages. Over and above the Tamil content and exclusive Cinema Club services, this pack also offers the best of Hindi language channels like Star Plus, Zee, Sony, Max, Star Gold, Zee Cinema and many others at Rs. 189 per month.

Speaking on the new launch, Sun Direct MD Mahesh Kumar said, “We, at Sun Direct, strive to put great content and services within the reach of the widest cross-section of consumers. The contemporary, world-class features of pause, record and rewind will now be within reach of every consumer. True to our claim of being the best value DTH brand, Sun Direct + will bring these features at virtually no extra cost."