Televisions are the chewing gum for the eyes- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 – 1959) and Satellites are the 1970’s lava lamps.

With the advancement of technologies, satellite television came in to existence.

Satellite television is a revolution when compared to terrestrial and cable television, as it received signals from communication satellites in the space. In many places these satellite television supplement its conventional counterparts to get wide range of channels.
For years, satellite television is not an acceptable one as it had many disadvantages of fixing a very large satellite in a place and then lining it to the appropriate satellite. It even took months to set it by trail and error method. Bad weather is always a hindrance to this method of broad casting.

In the conventional method, the radio wave signals often disrupted and proper broadcasting was not possible as it was not inline with the antenna, which transmits these signals to the surrounding area. To get a perfect signal you should be very close to the broadcasting area.
Whereas satellite television, receives the signal from satellite dishes, which is in the geo-synchronous orbit of the space. It orbits in elliptical inclination or in geostationary orbit of 37,000 km above the earth.

Earlier in 1980’s the Consumer satellite television reception was highly were expensive and the dishes used were as large as 12-foot height. It had a motorized, multiple satellites reception. In 1995, easily usable small dish network came in to existence. Now, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) is usage to enable the satellite provider to select programs and broadcasts them to subscribers as a set of packages. It is a digital broadcast, which means transmission happens in Ku frequency range (12 GHz to 14 GHz).

Like other Satellite relayed communication, Satellite television uses an antenna, which is mainly located in uplink direction. These are mainly nine to twelve meters in diameter. These large structures are required for accurate and increased signals from satellites. These uplinked dishes placed in such a way that they receive to a particular frequency range from the satellite, which is in the space. Then these satellites in space, retransmits, or resend the signals back to these uplinked dishes in earth in a highly different frequency from the previous one. These kind of receiving the signals are termed as downlink. C-band and Ku band are used for uplink service. The signal, received from the space, becomes weak. Therefore, these uplink dishes do conversions of the signals to low noise block down converter. Then these radio waves get converted in to electrical signals from C-band and Ku -band to L-band. The L-band receives the signal through coaxial cable and converts in to desired output.

However, the process may look very complicated. These are the units, which are the eye of the satellite television, which helps in uninterrupted service of information and makes a pathway for everybody to enjoy the new access to the information age.

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Many people under estimate the importance of the cables between their TV and their accessory equipment, i.e. VCR, DVD player, cable box, or satellite receiver.

Choosing one cable over another can improve the quality of your TV picture. In this article, we will discuss the most common types of cables and the differences between them.

Coax (Coaxial) cable is the most common cable you will find. It’s usually the cable your current cable provider is using to run a signal to your TV. It’s usually black or sometimes white. The ends have metal connectors. If you look in the middle, you will find a copper wire protruding from the center. The copper wire carries the signal.

Benefits: It is the most inexpensive cable and can be run for long distances.

Disadvantages: Lowest quality picture. It usually transmits mono sound unless attached to special equipment like DISH Networks’ dual tuner receivers which use MTS technology to transmit stereo sound to the TV2 location.

RCA (Radio Corporation of America) cables are a step up from coax cables. They have three plugs on both ends; red, white, and yellow. The red and white plugs provide stereo sound and the yellow plug provides video. Allowing the video signal to travel on a separate wire than the sound signal provides a better picture than coax.

Benefits: Better picture and stereo sound.

Disadvantages: More expensive than coax and is used for shorter distances. You can get length exceptions from Monster Cable.

S-Video (Separate video) is the best of the three. S-Video has a round end and looks like an old style computer connection. Each pin carries a different part of the video. This separation produces a sharper picture because less information is transmitted on each inner wire, whereas all the info is transmitted on one wire on the coax cable.

Benefit: Superior quality.

Disadvantages: More expensive, used for short distances, and does not provide sound. (Use the red and white plugs from the RCA cables for sound with S-video.)

HD Cables.

Y/PB/PR cables are used for High Definition video. It looks like RCA cables. However, they are thicker and are red, green and blue. All three plugs provide a different spectrum of the video.

Benefit: High Definition picture. Low cost for HD cables.

Disadvantage: High cost compared to standard definition cables. No sound. (Use RCA cables or an optical cable.)

HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) cables are best of breed. They provide High Definition video and 8-channer digital sound.

Benefits: Best picture and sound.

Disadvantage: Cost.

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HDTV is one technology that does not seem to be loosing steam with consumers. The popularity of this unique viewing system is spreading around the world.

With the United States set to move to mandated HDTV broadcasts by the year 2009, and with the same country already restricting the new televisions manufactured in the country to be HD ready, the fascination will only continue growing.

To date, the broadcasters have been hesitant to turn to HDTV. The cost involved has not seemed like the logical choice. With the recent surge of HDTV sets that have been purchased, and with the popularity of sporting programs broadcast in HDTV, it is likely these broadcasters will soon see the error of their ways.

The recent cost reduction of HDTV sets through out the retail market has helped increase consumer interest in the market. Experts are predicting that the prices have probably hit their low mark and will begin to level out. In the mean time, there are millions of set owners struggling to find programming that can do those sets justice.

HDTV veterans will tell anyone who will listen that this viewing is beyond anything that can be experienced. These viewers will demand that broadcasters meet the quality or they will find a way to meet their needs in another arena.

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Kathryn Lang is regular contributor to HDTV Watch, and blogs about HDTV sets. She is also a regular commentator on the PHD forums, especially on flatscreen TV’s.

In these days of ever increasing charges for this service and for that service, increasing cable TV bills and so on it is refreshing to be reminded that there are actually available free alternatives to all of this, if you know where to look.

If you know where to look is the key phrase here and then also if you also know to get access to them.

Sounds great does it not but to those who are of the firm belief that there is no such thing as a free lunch then you are partly correct in that as in all things there is indeed a cost but in this case the key thing is that the costs in this case are very rarely born by the consumer. That is you and I folks and is that not great news?

OK, before we get too excited about this whole concept of free viewing to be honest there is always a small charge somewhere along the way and this varies from service to service. In the United Kingdom, the cost of the major Terrestrial or Free to View stations such as the BBC is paid for directly out of the TV License fee that every consumer has to have. In the US, for users to have PBS there are sometimes voluntary donations that are requested.

Free-to-air (FTA) is often used for international TV Broadcasting and a good analogy would be to consider Free-to-air as Televisions equivalent to shortwave radio.

FTA is usually delivered to the consumer via Satellite television but in some cases and in various parts of the world it can be delivered via encrypted digital terrestrial television channels where it is broadcast on either UHF or VHF bands.

Though in a lot of cases it would appear that cable or conventional satellite television has the market sown up, free-to-air satellite TV is a viable alternative for use in locations where terrestrial over-the-air reception is poor. This is usually the case in large rural areas where the digital coverage may be patchy due to the technical fact that most digital broadcasts tend to be low power and therefore coverage outside of the main urban areas tends to be slightly low on juice so to speak.

Now all of this is starting to sound extremely technical with mention of this band and that, encryption etc and if you are like me, the kiss of death when it comes to either installing systems like this or trying to understand them then do not worry help is at hand.

You do not necessarily have to get an expert in to set up your own setup at home. You can set up your own FTA set up, it is not beyond the scope of the most technically minded individuals but it helps if you know what you are looking for and have the right equipment at hand.

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Satellite TV is a Liberator or the first time in history, India’s Republic Day was seen live all over Asia on Star TV, and the fuming politicians and intellectuals of Pakistan could do nothing about it.

The budget speech of Dr Man Mohan Singh ;will be broadcast all over Asia by Zee TV, and once again the censors in Pakistan, Burma and elsewhere will be helpless to prevent their countrymen from tuning in. What Doordarshan and the external affairs ministry could never have accomplished, in spreading the message about India’s economic Renaissance, is being done through the purely commercial channels of satellite TV.

Whatever else you may call this, this is not cultural imperialism imposed by the west on India. On the contrary, it is the spread of cultures of all Asian countries to one another. The new liberalism means the Indians can see Pakistani programmes, and Pakistanis Indian programmes. For decades Pakistan refused to allow the import of Indian films on the ground that Pakistan’s film industry will be ruined by the competition. Today, Zee TV and Jain TV are beaming down umpateen Hindi films to Pakistani audience. Yet Pakistan’s film industry has certainly not been destroyed. Only the monopoly of Pakistani rulers and vested interests has been broken.

Indian viewers can bow see excellent plays on Pakistan TV beamed down by satellite, which are generally far superior to the stuff dished out by Doordarshan. This has dismayed self-righteous Indians who think Indian viewers are gullible fools who must be protected from Pakistani propaganda by wise Indian intellectuals. There is of course another possibility-that TV viewers are quite wise enough, and the self-righteous intellectuals are the gullible fools.

NOT DECULTURISED: Indian viewers have now been exposed for a long time to TV programmes from BBC and Pakistan, and India has not been subverted or deculturised in the process. It is evident that Indian viewers are quite capable of deciding what they wish to absorb or reject from foreign programmes, and neither need nor want protection from the self-righteous crowd.

Indeed, this follows from democracy itself. In a democracy, ordinary people, illiterate or otherwise, are deemed wise enough to select their rulers. And yet the self-righteous intellectuals would have you believe that the same voters are not wise enough to choose their TV programmes. It is no accident that many of these intellectuals are (or have been) Marxists, who have long peddled the theory that the washed masses must be protected from their personal preferences by golden-hearted leftists, who have the moral right to shoot those who disagree.

Democratic governments can claim to represent the people of their country. But many also claim the right of determine what their people can watch, which is not democracy but monopoly. Democracy is about the freedom of people to choose, not the freedom of politicians and intellectual goons to impose their views on the masses. Earlier, technology enabled governments to exercise a TV monopoly. But satellite TV has broken that monopoly, and allowed people to choose what they wanted to see. This is not imperialism but liberation.

Imperialism implies that a foreigner is using force to enter India against the wishes of Indians. Satellite TV is not and cannot be forced on viewers, who have the option to tune in or not. Those who complain about cultural imperialism are in fact cultural monopolists, wishing to imprison the minds and tastes of viewers in pre-determined cages. Fortunately satellite technology has destroyed those cages. That is a tragedy only for the self-appointed guardians of culture.

UNPARALLELLED VEHICLE: Satellite TV should be seen as an unparalleled vehicle for spreading Indian culture, ideas and views to the rest of Asia, and eventually to the whole world. Programmes like The India Show and India Business Report of Star TV do far more for India’s image that anything that Indian embassies or All India Radio ever could. Stat TV an Zee TV beam many advertisements of Indian companies all over Asia, but carry virtually no ads from Pakistani or Bangladeshi companies. This shows how satellite TV has transformed India’s clout as an audience into international commercial clout of national importance.

From Amjad Ali Khan to Baba Sehgal, from Sonal Mansingh to Jasmine Barucha, Indian performers are now visible all over Asia and Indian films and TV shows have an unparalleled foreign audience. Because of the language barrier, many such programmes have a limited reach in South East Asia. But there is not langurge barrier in the case of Pakistan, with whom satellite TV is building cultural bridges, which politicians and intellectuals oppose.

India and Pakistan will not reconcile their political differences in the near future. But when that day comes, I believe the reconciliation will owe a debt to the cultural cross-fertilisation that satellite TV provides today regardless of religion or nation.

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IPTV – Internet Protocol Television – is about to break into the India-West Indies broadcasting market. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.is set to lead the invasion.

IPTV gives consumers several advantages over traditional cable or satellite broadcasting. This new service allows subscribers to store programs in there boxes for future viewing – similar to a VCR recording. It will also open up a new variety of programming channels, additional live events, and a wider range of pay channels as well.

A truly unique feature of IPTV will be the ability to send and receive messages – like email or instant messages – over the television.

Because of the way the IPTV is delivered, consumers are now able to deal with one provider for all their data needs. This means that it is possible to bundle telephone, internet, and IPTV all into one bill. It is a more convenient way for consumers to receive the bill, and it is a less expensive process for the providers.

IPTV will have benefits for education in the region. Video options will be available for classrooms that will provide online training, and interactive news programs.

It is the goal of BSNL to provide an IPTV service that is so remarkable it will serve to eventually replace the traditional cable services in the region completely.

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Kathryn Lang is an editor of IPTV Watch, and regular blogs about IPTV & PVR via ISP’s. She is also a regular commentator on the PHD forums, especially on home cinema entertainment.

HDTV will be a greater leap in the quality of the home entertainment experience than even the change from black-and-white TV to color, or Hi-Fi to Stereo, or AM to FM.

HDTV, in addition to picture and sound will also deliver data services, such as electronic program guides or information related to the programs you watch. Local broadcast stations broadcasting in HD will be able to broadcast one extra high quality picture, or several separate camera angles equal to today’s pictures. HDTV will offer the opportunity to develop sophisticated services that meet consumer demand for flexibility and convenience.

HD will be presented in a 16:9 format and will allow resolutions up to 1940×1080 plus provide you with twice the amount of picture information both vertically and horizontally. It will not work on regular analog televisions since these sets don’t support the interfaces required for HDTV signals.

After February 17th of 2009 local analog TV channels will stop transmitting, everything else connected to your analog TV will continue to work.

DVD

By the time HDTV is wide spread, high-definition movies will be on the shelves, playable on Blu-ray, HD DVD or both, depending on which way the format wars go. When you switch over to HD, you may need to connect your HD set-top box, Blu-ray or HD DVD player to your TV using a HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) cable. Both Blu-ray and HD DVD are compatible with existing standard DVD, so you can play your current discs on a next-gen player, but the two competing formats are not compatible with each other. It’s a bit of a laugh if you are old enough to remember the ‘Beta-Max VHS Wars’, Beta you say?

Technology

What problems are facing the early adopters of this new technology and what caveats remain for it to become mainstream? The people buying HDTV units today are known as “early adopters”. They usually buy whatever is the ‘Latest & Greatest’ especially in the Hi-Tech field. Other consumers will have to be sold on the technology. A huge number of older television sets will instantly become obsolete and when their owners make plans to replace them, newer technology like HDTV as it exists at the time of the mass conversion will be very attractive. You can bet that there will be a market for ‘conversion hardware’ to enable the use of ‘analog’ sets with the new HD Broadcast Technology. If you now record off-air local TV shows on your VCR you will not be able to continue doing that after February 17th of 2009 without an upgrade. To continue recording local TV programs you will either have to connect a Digital to Analog TV Converter box to your VCR or purchase a different TV recording device that has a DTV tuner built in. You’ll need that to continue to record programs from local TV stations after February 17th of 2009. The advent of Tivo will eventually make the VCR question irrelevant.

While the prices of HDTV sets are dropping, the High Definition equivalents of many of the complimentary technologies that we’ve come to expect will remain relatively expensive, such as home recording and storage media. The HD DVD and Blu-ray war is another slow down in bringing High Definition technology into the mainstream. In reality the main distinctions between competing HD formats will be virtually unnoticeable unless you are viewing on a screen 55″+ in size.

Antenna

In cities across the nation stations have already begun broadcasting an HDTV signal, receivable with an antenna. In order to receive over-the-air digital and HD signals, you need a tuner and a digital antenna. In order to watch local network affiliates, some satellite customers may have to switch from their dish to an antenna. To receive HDTV via antenna you’ll need: An HDTV, HDTV tuner, HDTV antenna. Depending on your location you may need an antenna rotor to point the antenna to multiple broadcast towers.

A major hurdle to overcome with over-the-air HD broadcasts via Antenna is, the technology has to overcome the ‘consumers’ misperceptions and long held myths, combined with lack of knowledge about the capabilities of antennas. The solution to the Antenna/Satellite conversion question may have a more long term effect on the consumer response than the seemingly obvious debate in other hardware.

Note: HDTV tuners that come built-into many HDTVs are over-the-air tuners for use with an antenna and cannot be used as your cable HD tuner.

Local Response

It’s always a good idea to check with your local TV dealer regarding what HDTV services are available in your area before buying. It would even be a good idea to call your local TV stations and ask for the Chief Engineer to find out the stations’ particulars.

The cable industry believes that HDTV will drive DTV sales up and bring prices down to a where more consumers can buy.

I’m looking at a DLP Projector System now; capable of displaying HD and allowing connections for an HDTV Tuner. Perhaps HDTV will be my next acquisition.

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Satellite receivers used to be large, clunky devices, that most homeowners had to give up their entire backyards to enjoy. The prohibitive size and the frequency these creations failed to actually receive the signals desired combined to make satellite an option that only a few pursued.

Nowadays, however, satellite receivers have changed a lot. From their size to their reliability levels, these devices have come a long way through the years.

While a satellite receiver will still be necessary to make most devices work, they are typically much more compact. Used for everything television and radio reception to portable phones and beyond, small receivers are the wave of now. This isn’t to say larger receivers aren’t still out there. Many government agencies, scientific labs and large companies use large satellite receivers and dishes for their operations, but home-use receivers are much more manageable.

Whether it’s satellite television, radio or even telephones that are in question, a satellite receiver will be necessary to make everything work. These devices now, however, are sometimes so small, it’s hard to tell what they are. In the case of radio, for example, some of the receivers are no larger than portable music players. They are compact enough to take on the go and plug into different vehicles as their owners desire.

The kind of satellite receiver that will be necessary will depend on the service in question. There are three main types of receivers that homeowners tend to run into. These are:

Satellite television receivers: These still typically come in the “dish” form, but the dishes have shrunk - a lot! Most dishes today are about the size of an actual dinner plate or maybe just a slight bit larger. They are quite portable and no longer cost thousands to install. In fact, many satellite television providers offer dishes for free as part of the service package. The days of giving up the backyard for great television are over.

Radio receivers: Satellite radio receivers are so small now, they tend to come stock in a lot of cars. Whether it’s XM, Sirius or another service, the receivers are designed to work with the onboard radio systems. When they’re not pre-installed, these receivers can generally be obtained through the service in question for home or portable use. These receivers do have their problems in some areas. Going under underpasses, for example, will tend to block the signal, but that’s typically the only issue with them at all.

Telephone receivers: Satellite telephone service is fast taking over where cellular left off. Offering users fairly reliable service from almost anywhere in the world, these phones are no larger than regular or even mobile phones. The receivers used in satellite phones are generally built into the mix, too, demonstrating just how far this technology has come in a short time.

While it used to be anyone who wanted a satellite receiver needed to be prepared to spend a long of cash on a monstrosity, that just isn’t the case anymore. As technology has moved forward, receivers have become smaller, more portable and much more reliable.

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Many people are switching from high priced cable television to satellite television because satellite TV offers more viewing and package options as well as more competitive prices.

When it comes to choosing your satellite TV provider, Dish Network is the only logical choice, and it has no serious alternative.

Dish Network offers a very effective way to enter the world of digital TV. For only $19.99 you can get 40 of today’s most popular channels. Their entry level package is called DishFAMILY. This package is focused on family-friendly programming.

Dish Network’s other packages are called America’s Top 100, America’s Top 200 and America’s Top 250 channels. If 250 channels just isn’t enough, try America’s Everything Package. Some of the packages mentioned include Sirius satellite radio channels. DISH Latino, DISH Latino Plus, DISH Latino Dos and Dish Latino Max are also available. Dish Network offers international channels, too, and they include Russian, Chinese, South Asian, Italian, African, German, Greek, Korean, Arabic, Armenian, French, Japanese, Polish, Urdu, Portuguese and Spanish channels.

When getting a Dish Network system, you get all the equipment you need and the TV system installed for free (in many cases the very next day). Free equipment is possible because Dish Network makes money only through monthly subscription fees. To sign up you need a credit card, $49.99 for the activation fee, which is automatically refunded on your first bill when you sign up for 18 month commitment. You don’t have to make an 18 month commitment but in this case you won’t get the $49.99 credit on your first bill and the free lifetime warranty.

If you want the best channels, the best movie, sport and music programming, and the best international channels at the lowest prices, then Dish Network satellite TV service is for you. For current information on equipment and programming see below.

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Dish Network is the satellite television broadcasting product owned by the company EchoStar Communications Corporation. Founded in 1980, by Mr. Charlie Ergen along with his wife Cantey and friend DeFranco, EchoStar Communications is an international, public company which is currently based in Englewood, Colorado.

The current Chairman and CEO of the company is its founder Charlie Ergen.

EchoStar boasts of the conceptualization and introduction of the world’s first Ultra High Frequency (UHF) remote control in the year 1986. The company was granted its Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) license by FCC in 1992 and launched its own private DBS service in 1995. The first Direct Broadcast Satellite of the company was EchoStar I which was launched from Xichang, China that year.

The Dish Network service of the EchoStar Company was soon a hit due to the company’s committed focus on customer service and cutting-edge equipment, resulting in the prolonged growth of EchoStar. It has being ten years and has seen the launching of eight satellites into space and still EchoStar and its Dish Network service enjoys the glory of being above all its competitors. DISH Network’s DISH 500 service which was introduced in 1999 is the world’s first and only 500-channel satellite TV system. After the release of the DISH 500 service, HDTV Satellite TV Receiver was launched in January, 2000 a few months later, which was groundbreaking in its popularity. After a few years, by 2004, DISH Network became the first satellite TV service to offer local channels to all 50 states of USA along with Washington D.C. Topped up by DISH Network’s 1,000 complete high definition television systems offering to the subscribers, EchoStar is the undisputed leader in its field now. Today, DISH Network is the most popular all-digital TV choice in America and most recently, introduced the first multi-room satellite TV receiver that can record in high definition - DISH Player-DVR 942.

Apart from Dish Network’s continuing success, EchoStar has many feathers in its cap, like the prestigious No.1 rank in Customer Satisfaction among Cable/Satellite TV subscribers, given by J.D. Power and Associates. All these years, EchoStar together with DISH Network have reaffirmed their standing by realizing new levels of service and introducing cutting-edge technologies. DISH Network is known to offer greater discounts and quality services in the form of bundled packages, owing to their partnership with communication masters such as SBC and EarthLink. DISH Network reached their 10 millionth customer milestone in 2004 and still continues to provide an impressive satellite network with the capacity to provide uninterrupted broadcast of hundreds of channels of digital video, audio and data services through the robust DISH Network service to homes, businesses and schools throughout the United States. Employing close to 20,000 people, EchoStar and DISH Network are known for their dedication to the quality, delivery and continuing advancement of Direct Broadcast Satellite worldwide.

The satellite industry is expanding very fast and creates a horizon of new opportunities and exciting, innovative cutting-edge technologies. DISH Network has evolved tremendously with the potential in satellite broadcasting and continues to explore new services like high definition television and digital video recording. There is still more to come in the field of distant high definition TV network channels over the next few years with the passage of the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004 (SHVERA). The future for Dish Network and EchoStar looks promising enough to revolutionize the world of satellite broadcasting.

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