chennai the days of small screen television sets and vcd or cd players in buses operated by the state transport corporations in tamil nadu except in chennai are over taking over is satellite tv passengers travelling by these buses will now enjoy the luxury of viewing crystal clear programmes on 22 lcd screens no matter if the buses have to bump over potholes on the road whats more if the driver stops the bus at a wayside motel there will be no discontinuity in the programme it will resume as soon the driver restarts the busmore than 10000 longdistance buses run by the state transport corporation will now have an internetbased uplinking facility to transmit content to depots across tamil nadu the new facility when launched in tamil nadu will be a first in india a trial run on 300 buses fitted with lcds has already begunreplacing the vcd will be a device called a thin client that has a pen drive with a capacity to store programmes for up to 14 hours programmes movies comedy sequences songs and advertisements will be beamed on television monitors from the main control room in chennai for once bus crew will have no control over the content according to sources bus depots in every taluk will have wifi stations to receive signals beamed via satellite if the bus fails to receive signals the thin client will come to the rescuethe initiative has elicited good response from passengers they are able to watch movies without disturbance its a whole new experience akin to theatreonwheels we will introduce the system in all the 10000 buses in tamil nadu the facility will also fetch a revenue of rs 2 crore to the corporations transport and agriculture minister k n nehru told the times of india he added that the new facility would put an end to complaints of obscene film songs being screened in buses the gpsenabled lcd screens will help authorities telecast advertisements to educate passengers on road safety news flashes including weather forecasts will be transmitted from the control room there will be different sets of advertisements for different regionsgunasekaranmtimesgroupcom