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  2. Viewer Access Satellite Television - Wikipedia

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    In April 2011, the Western VAST service began for Regional and Remote Western Australia viewers. [4] From December 2013, CRN, NIRS, RPH, and the BBC World Service were transitioned to the new satellite platform over a two-month period from the existing Aurora platform and were the final channels to make the transition. February 2014 was when ...

  3. Set-top box - Wikipedia

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    A typical modern set-top box, along with its remote control - pictured here a digital terrestrial TV receiver by TEAC. A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, [1] is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and displays output to a television set, turning the source signal into ...

  4. Single-cable distribution - Wikipedia

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    Unicable. Single-cable distribution is a satellite TV technology that enables the delivery of broadcast programming to multiple users over a single coaxial cable, and eliminates the numerous cables required to support consumer electronics devices such as twin-tuner digital video recorders (DVRs) and high-end receivers.

  5. Integrated receiver/decoder - Wikipedia

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    Commonly found in radio, television, Cable and satellite broadcasting facilities, the IRD is generally used for the reception of contribution feeds that are intended for re-broadcasting. The IRD is the interface between a receiving satellite dish or Telco networks and a broadcasting facility video/audio infrastructure.

  6. Asynchronous serial interface - Wikipedia

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    The ASI output of a DVB Integrated Receiver/Decoder (IRD). It carries the entire MPEG transport stream being received from a DVB satellite feed entering the RF input (far left side in picture). Asynchronous Serial Interface , or ASI, is a method of carrying an MPEG Transport Stream ( MPEG-TS ) over 75-ohm copper coaxial cable or optical fiber ...

  7. Universal Satellites Automatic Location System - Wikipedia

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    Pointing to a known satellite position (for example 19.2ºE) is enough; this position will act as the central point, and the USALS system will then calculate visible satellites position within the offset. Receivers are aligned to the satellite most southern to their position in the northern hemisphere, or the northernmost in the southern ...

  8. PowerVu - Wikipedia

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    PowerVu is a conditional access system for digital television developed by Scientific Atlanta. [1] It is used for professional broadcasting, notably by Retevision, Bloomberg Television, Discovery Channel, AFRTS, ABS-CBN, GMA Network, and American Forces Network.

  9. Satellite dish - Wikipedia

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    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 .