Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks

Dish TV India today announced the rollout of its latest interface- ‘Orbit’ to DishSMRT Stick and d2h Magic. According to the DTH operator, Orbit comes with a lot of new features addressing the best of aggregated content from various sources available on the platform. So basically, Orbit brings content from all the OTT services into one place, similar to PatchWall UI on Xiaomi TVs and Oxygen Play on OnePlus TVs. Dish TV collaborated with Tata Elxsi for doing the UX enhancements for its connected devices, a release from the brand read. While the DishSMRT Stick and d2h Magic stick are already getting the Orbit UI, the Dish SMRT Hub will get the update in the coming days. For the unaware, Dish SMRT Hub is an Android TV-based Set-Top Box that runs a near-stock version of Android TV 9 Pie.

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The major reason behind moving onto a custom interface is to provide seamless TV & online viewing experience. Orbit has a simple yet minimalistic design, according to Dish TV; It allows users to switch between Live TV, OTT and other value-added services with ease. Other manufacturers with Android TV devices already have a custom interface. For example, Airtel Xstream Box has a separate launcher installed which allows users to switch between Live TV and OTT content with ease. All the content viewing options will be placed on the home screen itself for easy navigation and the new Orbit would be similar to the same. Even Xiaomi’s PatchWall UI aggregates content from various providers.