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The image of a satellite floating 7,000 miles above the Earth sending an electronic signal to a dish mounted on or near your house, is a lot to comprehend, but if you live outside the realm of your local cable provider, you either have or considered satellite television. With DirecTV, you can receive all the hardware you need including the Direct Satellite TV receiver, which is the must-have end of the satellite TV trail.

Unless your satellite TV system is connected to a Direct Satellite TV receiver, your television will not be able to understand all the signals coming from the satellite. Properly aligned satellite dishes receive scrambled signals from satellite broadcasters and send them to the receiver, which using a special descrambler card, can decipher and split the signal into authorized programming.

The receiver contains a special chip which is programmed by the satellite TV company to decode the signals received for the programming package that users are contracted to receive. The chip can be reprogrammed through the satellite signal to update any programming changes made. The Direct Satellite TV receiver receives all the channels that you receive, but the programming chip only sends out one signal at a time. When you change channels on your receiver, it allows the chosen signal to go through.

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The Direct Satellite TV receiver also keeps track of any per view channels you have viewed and sends that information to the company for billing. Earlier models of the Direct Satellite TV receiver only allowed one channel to be viewed at a time but newer models often have the input for two lines allowing the user to watch one channel while recording another or for viewing two channels at once available with TVs equipped for picture-in-picture viewing.

There are illegal chips on the market that when programmed, allows a person to receive all channels being broadcast by a satellite TV company. The Direct Satellite TV receiver receives a signal periodically that will essentially render the illegal cards useless and they have to be reprogrammed again. Typically, the company will send out this electronic counter measure at least once a week, sometime more, and through communications with the Direct Satellite TV receiver the company can also determine the location of the illegal chips.

Many of the newer Direct Satellite TV receivers have recording capabilities built into them that allows for digital video recording for later viewing and also allows you to pause live TV when you answer the phone, for example, letting you catch up with the program once done with your call.

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Watch Satellite TV Online Someday



As technology improves, we can see our various utilities becoming broader by adding more choices and options and narrower by combining television, computer and telephone services into an increasingly overlapping redundancy. Cell phones can play short videos and receive email. Cable TV companies can provide Internet service as well as voice over IP telephony. How long before you can watch satellite TV online? Could be any minute now.

Monitoring TV

A computer monitor is not made to receive a television signal. A TV picture is filmed or videotaped then turned into tiny lines. For those who enjoy word games, this is called rasterizing. When a TV receiver gets a signal from satellite, broadcast or cable, it shoots the lines in a specific order at the back of the TV screen where they linger for the smallest fraction of a second. The eye is fooled into deciphering these lines as a complete picture. A computer monitor can't work with these lines. That's why when a computer is shown on TV, the monitor appears to flicker. This is the stumbling block to watching satellite TV online. That stumbling block is not a real obstacle to the television providers, however. That's because the best traditional - or analog - TV set has a resolution that's a joke next to the worst computer screen.

Watching satellite TV online will mean watching digital TV. That is, television that has been shot by digital cameras, transmitted by digital signal and received by a digital set.. That receiver can be your computer monitor. Someday. Basically, the HDTV-ready television sets on the market today are computer monitors. The difference is the picture ratio. A computer monitor is nearly square like an analog TV screen. True HDTV will have a ratio more like a wide-screen movie.

So television has to catch up with digital technology before you go to the trouble of hooking up your computer for viewing satellite TV online. If you do have access to some digital TV in your area, hooking it up to your computer is just a matter of inputs and outputs and your satellite TV equipment. In the meantime, deciding what kind of TV sets to buy is a real puzzle. With digital on the way, an analog set doesn't make sense. Digital-ready sets are really analog sets that will upgrade to a low resolution reception. HDTV-ready sets may or may not be able to receive analog signals in the meantime. Integrated HDTV sets contain both technologies but one of them will become obsolete. That won't be a problem in the future. Once the technology catches up, it won't be long before your satellite company will be sending signals over the Internet for true satellite TV online.

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RV Satellite TV: TV To Go



If you want your recreational vehicle to have all of the comforts of home, then television is a necessity. Naturally, if you intend to drive your RV somewhere the logistics of arranging for TV reception may seem challenging. With today's technology and options, it should come as no surprise that you can make your favorite TV shows as portable as you want.

Uplink, Downlink

Except for the most local of programming, all television is satellite television. Instead of broadcasting TV over the airwaves, broadcasters now send their programming through an uplink to a satellite orbiting the earth. The satellites then send the encrypted and compressed signals back to earth using a downlink which is received by satellite dishes. If the dish belongs to an individual, the transmission is complete. The signal is decrypted and sent to the television set for viewing.

Otherwise, the satellite dish belongs to a television station that receives the programming from its network to broadcast to its own viewing area. This allows the insertion of local commercials, news bulletins and other types of information. Cable TV companies also receive their programming through satellite dishes. They grab signals from many networks and channels, decrypt the signals and send them along to viewers through the cable. Of these three options, the best for RV satellite TV is the first.

A satellite dish can be purchased from a satellite TV subscription service. You can purchase a programming package of channels you prefer and take it along for RV satellite TV. Of course, when a home is designed to drive down the highway, hooking up a satellite dish can involve some decisions. For reasons of security and safety, the best place to plan its placement is the roof of the RV. You can attach it with a tripod-like fixture that will fold down for traveling but necessitate attaching and detaching when arriving and leaving your camp ground.

There are also special mountings that will allow you to collapse the whole apparatus including the dish for traveling. The next step is to aim your dish to receive your RV satellite TV signal. You need to find the correct direction and angle for the signal that you subscribe to. Each new stomping ground will present a new challenge. Although the signal is easy enough to locate with the proper instructions, you need an unobstructed shot at the satellite. That means that trees and other coverings can block your RV satellite TV signal. Keep a ground mount on hand in case roof mounting is not practical in your new place. As long as you subscribe to a service that is available to answer questions, your RV satellite TV will be ready, willing and able to travel along.


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