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A low-noise block downconverter (LNB) is the receiving device mounted on satellite dishes used for satellite TV reception, which collects the radio waves from the dish and converts them to a signal which is sent through a cable to the receiver inside the building.
Dish Network (DISH) -- and its subscribers -- dodged a bullet this week. The country's second largest satellite television provider has secured a deal with Gannett (GCI) to continue broadcasting ...
The first satellite TV systems were a now-obsolete type known as television receive-only. These systems received weaker analog signals transmitted in the C-band (4–8 GHz) from FSS type satellites, requiring the use of large 2–3-meter dishes. Consequently, these systems were nicknamed "big dish" systems, and were more expensive and less ...
The bill also dealt with some copyright issues and required Dish Network to offer HD non-commercial signals by 2011 instead of 2013. [7] One potential problem: [clarify] determining who cannot receive a signal is still based on analog rather than digital TV. [8]
Officials with Dish and Lilly Broadcasting, which owns WICU (NBC), WSEE (CBS) and WSEE-2 (CW), announced their agreement over the weekend. The channels were pulled from Dish's schedule in mid ...
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 ...
DISH HD, newest version used with the Hopper and Joey system. Hopper is a line of multi-tuner set-top boxes first introduced in 2012; they are digital video recorders that can be networked with accompanying "Joey" set-top boxes for multi-room access to recordings.
Any converter box converts the digital signal for the current digital sub-channel to an analog signal (at the reduced screen resolution of the analog standard), outputs that signal onto analog channel 3 or 4 (set by the user to avoid any conflict with local over-the-air channels) and sends that signal to the analog tuner on the TV.