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Dish Network confirmed on Tuesday that a previously disclosed “network outage” was the result of a cybersecurity breach.
On Nov. 12, Dish’s creditors turned down the offer to exchange their debt for new debt in the merged DirecTV-Dish at a discounted rate (under which they would have seen a $1.5 billion loss on $8 ...
Under the deal, DirecTV will pay Dish’s owner, EchoStar, just $1 for Dish in exchange for assuming its billions of dollars in debt. Private equity firm TPG, meanwhile, will acquire AT&T’s ...
On December 28, 1995, the firm successfully launched its first satellite, EchoStar I. [4] On March 4, 1996, it established the Dish Network brand name to market its home satellite TV system. [5] On January 2, 2008, the Dish Network business was spun-off from the technology and infrastructure side of the business.
It was retroactively named the "DISH 300" when legal and satellite problems forced delays of the forthcoming DISH 500 systems. It uses one LNB to obtain signals from the 119°W orbital location, [ 85 ] and was commonly used as a second dish to receive additional high-definition or international programming from either the 148°W or 61.5°W ...
A Viewsat Xtreme FTA receiver. A free-to-air or FTA Receiver is a satellite television receiver designed to receive unencrypted broadcasts. Modern decoders are typically compliant with the MPEG-4/DVB-S2 standard and formerly the MPEG-2/DVB-S standard, while older FTA receivers relied on analog satellite transmissions which have declined rapidly in recent years.
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The first encryption methods used for big-dish satellite systems used a hybrid approach; analogue video and digital encrypted audio. This approach was somewhat more secure, but not completely free of problems due to piracy of video signals. Digital TV services, by nature can more easily implement encryption technologies.