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This division, called DStv (Digital Satellite Television), had first been launched in South Africa on October 6, 1995, making it the first direct-to-home digital pay-TV service outside the US. [8] In 2002, a "Dual-view" decoder was launched by DStv which allowed the simultaneous viewing of two different channels from a single satellite feed.
African Cable Television - commenced operations on 1 December 2014; operations were discontinued a few months later; CTL; Daarsat; DStv [4] [5] - Other networks like HiTV (out of operations) and StarTimes have increased the competitiveness of the cable TV market.
The launch of DStv was deemed "satisfactory", with decoder sales having surpassed 10,000 units by November 1995. [7] Within weeks of its launch, DStv added its first new channels, Discovery Channel and BBC World. The latter was available over the terrestrial frequencies of M-Net eleven hours a day; this enabled subscribers to watch the channel ...
Between 1981 and 1985, TVRO systems' sales rates increased as prices fell. Advances in receiver technology and the use of gallium arsenide FET technology enabled the use of smaller dishes. Five hundred thousand systems, some costing as little as $2000, were sold in the US in 1984. [71] [75] Dishes pointing to one satellite were even cheaper. [76]
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 ...
DStv dish. The Intelsat 20/36, served by Multichoice's DStv is the main digital satellite television provider in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, broadcasting principally in English, but also in Portuguese, and Afrikaans. Multichoice's DStv had 6 million paid subscribers on 30 September 2016. [3]
Code rates 1/4, 1/3, and 2/5 have been introduced for exceptionally poor reception conditions in combination with QPSK modulation. Encoding values 8/9 and 9/10 behave poorly under marginal link conditions (where the signal level is below the noise level).
The PC, as far as the decoder is concerned, becomes a legitimate smartcard due to the program running on it. The program responds like a legitimate smartcard. Sometimes, for development purposes, the PC is programmed to simulate the entire instruction set of the smartcard's microcontroller to allow smartcard code to be developed more readily.