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  2. DTVPal - Wikipedia

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    The DTVPal was a line of digital-to-analog converter boxes designed by EchoStar Communications, under the Dish Network name. The boxes were marketed starting in 2008. [1] The units debuted to both love and criticism from purchasers, primarily related to reliability, warranty, and service issues. [2]

  3. Hopper (DVR) - Wikipedia

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    The Hopper provides standard television functionality, including an electronic program guide, picture-in-picture support, and digital video recorder functionality. [1] The "Primetime Anytime" feature uses one of the three tuners on the unit to automatically record primetime programming being broadcast by the four major U.S. television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox) and presents them in a ...

  4. Satellite television - Wikipedia

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    The satellite receiver or set-top box demodulates and converts the signals to the desired form (outputs for television, audio, data, etc.). [17] Often, the receiver includes the capability to selectively unscramble or decrypt the received signal to provide premium services to some subscribers; the receiver is then called an integrated receiver ...

  5. Dish Network - Wikipedia

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    The Tailgater is compatible with the Wally and VIP211 receivers. Customers only need to pay for the period of time where the receiver is active on the account, the monthly cost for a Vip211 or Wally is $7 per month, if the receiver is the only one on the account, there is no charge. [90]

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

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    As pay TV distributors — both satellite and cable companies — have seen customers flee for streaming, DirecTV is trying to get the message out that a clunky satellite dish is no longer needed ...

  7. 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.

  8. Integrated receiver/decoder - Wikipedia

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    The IRD is the interface between a receiving satellite dish or Telco networks and a broadcasting facility video/audio infrastructure. Professional IRDs have various features that consumer IRDs lack such as: SDI outputs. ASI inputs / outputs. TSoIP inputs. AES/EBU Audio decoding. VBI reinsertion. WSS data and pass through. Transport stream ...

  9. 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 ...