Satellite Television - The Future of Home Entertainment

Gone are the days of cable TVs, when you hardly got a choice of watching your favourite channels. Your family would crowd in one room and fight over the issue as to which program to turn on. With the state-of-art technology that satellite TV brings you, you get the best multiple choices ever, with option of packages, packed with channels and programs of your choice and that of your family. No more of those distortions in your picture, or the crackling audio. Satellite TV brings you 100% digital quality picture, with clear crisp sound.

Satellite TV brings to home entertainment the program packed channels, which can be individually accessed by your family members, without having to crowd in one room, arguing about which program to watch. It brings you channels which will keep you informed regarding the recent happening in the world, with such channels like, C-SPAN, CNN, CNBC World, local channels, and foreign language programming to choose from, providing individual interest to every member in your family. There are educational channels as well, such as, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and the History Channel, which are not only of interest to the children but to the adults as well. Satellite TV gets you those programs, happening at the other side of the world, taking you there on the spot, live, familiarising you with different cultures and races existing in the countries of this world.

Satellite TV provides the facility of 'parental control'. This allows you to block the programs that you would not want your children to watch. Further, you can set a time limit to your pay-as-you-view channels, there-by stopping any misuse use of your money. All these you can achieve by setting your own password, and the same lets you access the channels or programs that you blocked or set time limit to.

Satellite TV brings you the option of Digital Video Recording (DVR), a facility by which you need not worry about video cassettes any more. You get a practically limitless channel recording of up to 155 channels, and a 100 hour storage space, where you can store all the recordings of your favourite movies or shows. You can watch one channel and record the other, which you could watch at convenience. The integrated on-screen program guide allows you to program your DVR, and with a flick of a button you can pause, rewind and replay, your live TV programs. How does a satellite TV work? Satellite TV works with the help of a group of communication satellites, set into a geosynchronous orbit, at a height of about 22,000 miles above the earth's surface. A geosynchronous orbit is essentially a geocentric orbit, which takes the same time to complete one orbit round the Earth, as the Earth goes through one revolution around its axis. If this satellite could be seen from ground, it would seem that the satellite is stationary and not moving at all. The TV signals are beamed into small dish-like antennas, set up at your back garden or on your roof, with the dish looking at the satellite beaming down television pictures and audio. These signals reach your TV through cables running from your Dish antenna. It will be interesting to note, that for distant programs, signals are relayed from one satellite to the other, to reach the one which is supposed to beam down the signals in the area where you live.

The signals are filtered clean, for you have sharp undistorted digital quality pictures, and CD quality sound. Satellite TV brings a total experience in home entertainment, providing you with every opportunity of individual satisfaction. It is a remarkable experience when you change over to satellite TV from your old cable network.

Written by David Johnson.

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