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  2. Digital Satellite Service - Wikipedia

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    Also unlike DVB, all DSS receivers are proprietary DirecTV reception units. DirecTV is now using a modified version of DVB-S2, the latest version of the DVB-S protocol, for HDTV services off the SPACEWAY-1, SPACEWAY-2, DirecTV-10 and DirecTV-11 [2] satellites; however, huge numbers of DSS encoded channels still remain. The ACM modulation scheme ...

  3. The 7 Best HDTV Antenna Amplifiers of 2023 For a Better Signal

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    8-Port TV Distribution Amplifier. For households with multiple TVs, the Antennas Direct 8-Port TV Distribution Amplifier can split a signal with no noticeable impact on signal quality.

  4. T10 (satellite) - Wikipedia

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    DirecTV supplies BBCs with all 5-LNB K u /K a-band dish systems. The satellite signal from T10 is downconverted at the dish to the frequency range of 250-750 MHz, called "K a-lo". At the receiver when necessary, the BBC in response to a control signal from the receiver blocks any original "K a-hi" signals between 1650-2150 MHz. Then up-converts ...

  5. DirecTV satellite fleet - Wikipedia

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    It was the first satellite used to broadcast local channels for DirecTV in major DMAs, and was positioned at 101.2° W when it first entered service. [29] In April 2007, the satellite was relocated to 72.5° W and leased to Telesat to cover the loss of DirecTV 2 and serve as backup capacity to the troubled Nimiq 2 satellite.

  6. Low-noise block downconverter - Wikipedia

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    The signal received by the LNB is extremely weak and it has to be amplified before downconversion. The low-noise amplifier section of the LNB amplifies this weak signal while adding the minimum possible amount of noise to the signal. The low-noise quality of an LNB is expressed as the noise figure (or sometimes noise temperature). This is the ...

  7. PrimeStar - Wikipedia

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    PrimeStar was an American direct broadcast satellite broadcasting company formed in November 1990 by seven cable television companies including Comcast Corp. and TCI Communications Corp. [1] PrimeStar was the first medium-powered DBS system in the United States but slowly declined in popularity with the arrival of DirecTV in 1994 and Dish Network in 1996.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Distribution amplifier - Wikipedia

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    Active Audio Distribution Amplifier AudioPressBox APB-224 C 1:2 Stereo Audio Distribution Amplifier - side with output. In electronics, a distribution amplifier, or simply distribution amp or DA, is a device that accepts a single input signal and provides this same signal to multiple isolated outputs.