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2. Satellite television - Wikipedia

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   A number of satellite dishes. Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. [1] The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna commonly referred to as a satellite dish and a low-noise block ...

3. Satellite dish - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. A satellite dish is a dish-shaped type of parabolic antenna designed to receive or transmit information by radio waves to or from a communication satellite. The term most commonly means a dish which receives direct-broadcast satellite television from a direct broadcast satellite in geostationary orbit.

4. Parabolic antenna - Wikipedia

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   Online pointing utility using google maps, and each satellite channel list: DishPointer - Align your satellite dish; Animation of Propagation from a Parabolic Dish Antenna from YouTube; Parabolic reflector antenna tutorial Theory and practice; Applet of gain of parabolic antenna. PlutoDirect.co.uk : Low prices in Satellite & CCTV Equipments

5. Satellite television in the United States - Wikipedia

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   U.S. residential satellite TV receiver dishes. Currently, there are two primary satellite television providers of subscription based service available to United States consumers: DirecTV and Dish Network, which have 21 and 10 million subscribers respectively. [1] [2]

6. Television receive-only - Wikipedia

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   The retail price for satellite receivers soon dropped, with some dishes costing as little as $2,000 by mid-1984. [4] Dishes pointing to one satellite were even cheaper. [8] Once a user paid for a dish, it was possible to receive even premium movie channels, raw feeds of news broadcasts or television stations from other areas.

7. DirecTV is pushing its pay TV bundle — without a satellite dish

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   Satellite TV providers like DirecTV and EchoStar’s Dish were once some of the biggest distributors of the TV bundle. The competition ramped up when cable TV companies began offering broadband.

8. US satellite-TV providers DirecTV and Dish are in talks to ...

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   By Anirban Sen. (Reuters) - Telecom operator AT&T and its joint-venture partner TPG are in early-stage talks to merge their DirecTV satellite TV service with EchoStar owned Dish, a person familiar ...

9. FTA receiver - Wikipedia

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   An alternate approach of pointing a fixed dish (or LNB) at each satellite to be received (then feeding the individual signals into a remotely controlled switch) is compatible both with standard FTA receivers and the more-restricted pay-TV "package receiver". The most common standard for use with FTA receivers is a DiSEqC switch which normally ...