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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Emerging Technology Of Satellite TV System

By Dennis Jackson

The number of people using satellite TV system has increased since its emergence into the market in the early 1960s. The technology behind it has also advanced a lot since the "Early Bird", one the first commercial satellite TVs. This TV had very poor pictures of low quality as compared to the present day crystal clear Direct-to-home deliveries available on Satellite Television.

The satellite TV's functioning depends on communication from three components; the global communication satellite, the satellite dish and a set-top-box. Communication is by means of signals transmitted by an elliptical geostationary orbit that is positioned 37,000 km from the earth's surface.

The cycle of the satellite TV communication is a two part process. First, an uplink station sends powerful signals to the satellite geostationary orbit via a dish network antenna. The surface of the uplink station dish is large because this increases the preciseness of transmissions to the orbiting stations. After this, the transponder relays signals back to earth which are then seen in the satellite TV.

As a result of the evolved technologies and emergence of new ideas, quality of reception has improved over the years. Early, the images on TVs were of low quality and were subject to atmospheric interference. And as technology continued to improve, new better solutions were invented. The use of parabolic dishes assisted in improving the strength of the signals. In the early days, sound and images were not in fine resonance. But later the satellite TV gurus invented a low noise amplifier which they use to tune the accompaniment of sound and images.

The other parts that have contributed to the changes in Satellite TV in a big way are the fall in prices of equipments used and the expenses of installing the whole system. As an example, the change from C-band TV systems to the current satellite systems has reduced the connection to UHF TVs and its now possible to watch more than one channel from the same one connection line. This has assisted in mass production in terms of connections and equipments used.

Of late, further improvements of the satellite TV have been witnessed due to the rise of digital quality technology. This is a vast leap from the former standards like PAL and NTSC. The satellite TV has been fully digitalized. These improvements have seen subscriptions to satellite TV connections rise as opposed to traditional analog connection days. Before, satellite TV ownership was left to the rich elite but now, money has no bearing on whether or not one gets satellite TV connection.

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