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| 'PTV Flix': The app covering the 'golden age' of state TV, but what's in it for Generation Z? |
In case you too need to wander away inside the dialogues and characters of what's called the 'Golden generation' of PTV, then PTV has these days soft-launched an app for visitors such as you.
The app named 'PTV Flix' has an archive of diverse dramas and programs from the Sixties to the Nineties, including dramas, telefilms, PTV award suggests, music, non-secular and amusement programs, and children's applications. Packages are protected.
Many dramas consisting of Aishaniyan, Dhup Kangar, Khuda ki Basti, Andhera Ajala, Marvi, Karan Kahani, Mandi, Uncle Arfi, Ek Mohabbat So Afsane, and Waris are a part of this app.
Comedy indicates and dramas like Fifty Fifty, Alf Midday, Angan Tedha, Khawaja and Sons, and then the circle of Relatives 90-three, and Burger's own family also are included in this app. Several crickets fits and hockey competitions have also been covered in the sports activities.
And yes, the Zia Mohiuddin display, Zawiya, Anwar Maqsood, Moin Akhtar's Studio Pune 3, Studio Two and a half, and Finale Kusuti are not anything short of a treat. The popular kid's drama 'Ainakwala Jin' continues to be one of the maximum-watched dramas on the app.
Other than this, the telefilms consist of Rozi, Sahind, Aaban, Ab Mera Ithkar, Qafs Hai Bus Mein Tumre, Kort Ma Pa Kort.
In keeping with PTV officials, the aim of launching PTV Flix isn't simplest to refresh the recollections of the viewers about those dramas and indicates but also to store these big initiatives of PTV.
For this project, PTV management has given a contract to a personal corporation to edit, and digitize these programs and dramas whilst additionally looking to improve their nice.
"The first-class had deteriorated to such a quantity that we were seeking to repair the tapes using disposing of the water-soaked tapes," he says. These are very old tapes. Even as there are numerous dramas whose statistics and episodes are looking to be determined.
PTV is called the 'Golden Age' of PTV because of the dramas it created from the Sixties to the Nineteen Nineties. All 5 facilities of PTV namely Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar, and Quetta had been broadcasting satisfactory dramas of their technology.
Andhera Ajala produced in 1985 from Lahore, Unkahi produced in 1982 from Karachi, and the drama Smoke produced in 1995 from Quetta have been examples of Aap.
The comedy collection guest house from Islamabad turned into additionally a fave of kids of the Nineteen Nineties. While Rauf Khalid's famous dramas Log and Angar Wadi had been additionally aired.
The app nevertheless has a few technical problems that customers are complaining about. Overseas Pakistanis need to pay a monthly fee to access the app, but, numerous users on the social networking website Twitter complained that they could not make the fee due to a technical glitch.
Talking to the BBC about this, Sabahat Zakaria, based in the USA, said that he attempted in many instances in the beginning but could not be successful. Sabahat attempted several times to register inside the app but the procedure could not be completed.
He also shared a screenshot on Twitter and wrote: "The app accepts my US debit card however won't continue after this display. "The go back to PTV Flix button isn't always operating."
In the screenshot shared by him, it could be seen that the handiest two rupees are referred to inside the required fee.
Comparable court cases are being made through other customers. Alternatively, the interface of this app and the video quality of the applications also are being criticized.
Talking about those court cases, PTV officers said that the app remains in its initial levels and the motive of the soft release is to work out the technical issues it faces. PTV's IT branch is running on it and these types of problems can be resolved by the time of the entire release.
But, no matter being contacted, PTV IT officers no longer deliver any response or timeline in this regard.
On the only hand, this app is being praised so that the viewers of these PTV dramas that had been aired decades ago can relive the reminiscences of the beyond today, but alongside this, the question is being asked ultimately what is in this app for the brand new technology.
Speakme approximately this, a person Ali Raza Choudhary says, “You're targeting individuals who are from the 1960s and 1990s. Half of them will now not be in the global besides and people who're will no longer know about PTV Flix nor will they exit in their traditional ways. So what is on this app for Generation Z?'
We requested the identical query to PTV officials what is the audience of this app? Will the young people of today or the youngsters of the subsequent ten years be interested in looking at old PTV dramas or using this app?
Answering this question, a respectable stated that they're trying to hyperlink the app to the television so that humans can watch the program on the tv screen. How excellent performances we used to make, have been instructive however missing in their production, route, and scripts. It was hard work. '
It was the concept of information Minister Maryam Aurangzeb to maintain the pleasant plays and packages of our beyond and lead them to access to the young people. It's miles imperative to maintain these essential initiatives and make them on hand to destiny generations.
And right now at this degree, we're seeking out episodes of dramas and applications which have been lost somewhere in the files or were corrupted because of a person's carelessness. Therefore, if we do now not guard them today, then in the following few years this asset will depart our palms.
There are nevertheless many programs that aren't a part of this app. And visitors are also contacting PTV to request their favorite programs to be part of this app. As Thawbia Saber says, 'Why are a delight, years later, our past, destiny, and marriage no longer some of these?'
Thubia also shows that PTV management needs to create a YouTube channel and add all of the dramas in HD satisfactory on it. "Your employer ought to have earned hundreds of thousands from YouTube perspectives."
"There is a lot of material, 3 flooring in PTV HQ itself are just data, now not simply importing them, however working on their quality, so it's far a time-consuming challenge, however, we can be including extra dramas and more in the following few weeks. Applications may be uploaded and this could retain.
But, lots of those dramas and packages are already to be had on numerous apps like YouTube.
Talking to BBC approximately these dramas and copyrights, a PTV legitimate stated that there's a big difficulty with copyrights for which they may be considering various alternatives.
"The tragedy with PTV is that everyone considers it their assets and our content material are anywhere on YouTube and numerous apps," the reliable stated. We're looking at what we will legally do and what other options there are.
Consistent with PTV officers, the problems facing the app can be resolved by the time the app is fully released, even as the number of viewers has reached lakhs during the gentle release of the app.