Cable and Satellite TV Articles

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Stephanie Foster @ Monday, 30th July 2007 @ 12:44 AM

Satellite television has a lot of advantages over cable television. It's all digital and you often get more digital channels for the price. But it's not perfect and it won't be the right choice for everyone. Sometimes cable television will be the right choice. The big problem everyone thinks about with satellite television relates to the weather. When the weather is particularly bad you can lose all reception, missing your favorite shows. In some areas this is a regular pro... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By MIKE SELVON @ Friday, 13th July 2007 @ 3:25 PM

Satellite TV has changed the way people around the world watch television. With thousands of channels readily available and crystal-clear picture reception, satellite TV may well be the perfect way to watch some TV shows. Some people swear that high-definition is the best thing to hit television in quite some time, but nothing surpasses the virtually unlimited universe that satellite television can provide for the viewer. There are a number of satellite TV systems out there that c... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By MIKE SELVON @ Friday, 13th July 2007 @ 3:11 PM

If you are looking for the best satellite TV dish, you may have quite a battle on your hands. With the right information and some buying sense, however, you should be able to make a good purchase and end up getting the best value for your money. There's a lot of competition in the field of satellite TV dish suppliers, so finding the company that best suits what you have in mind may be complicated and a little bit tricky. The expansion of satellite TV dish sales has surpassed ... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By MIKE SELVON @ Thursday, 12th July 2007 @ 5:24 PM

Some people are content to sit back and enjoy their new satellite network dish with no concern for how it actually works. Others are not so passive. Were you the kind of kid who wasn't satisfied until you had taken everything apart and figured out how it worked? If this sounds like you, then here are a few basic explanations of how your satellite TV service works. Satellite TV systems are the result of many other kinds of satellite technology. Everything from radio signals to police... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By MIKE SELVON @ Wednesday, 11th July 2007 @ 10:55 AM

Unlike other satellite TV systems, DirecTV TiVo relationship allows subscribers to use the two services in conjunction with each other. At the heart of the DirecTV TiVo relationship is a desire to offer their customers the best support and service that they possible can. They have both come to realize that customers will soon have more choices concerning their satellite TV service. With many digital cable providers now offering their own DVR service, TiVo also needed a reliable partner.<... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Chris Marshall @ Wednesday, 20th June 2007 @ 2:12 AM

Price comparison website uSwitch says that millions of television sets and video recorders will be dumped following the Digital TV switch-over. Their bold statement comes on the back of a survey of 2,500 UK adults. The survey estimates that eight-million machines, enough to fill 100 Olympic swimming pools, will be dumped after being rendered useless by the Digital TV switch-over. Most existing TVs will continue to work once the analogue TV signal is switched off, but viewers will have to... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Stephanie Foster @ Friday, 8th June 2007 @ 1:06 AM

On the surface, the two big satellite television companies, DirecTV and Dish Network look a lot alike. And in many ways they really are similar. But that doesn't mean there aren't great reasons for choosing one company over the other. The biggest factor overall will probably be the package selections. When it comes right down to it, you want to receive the channels you want to watch, and if one company offers them and the other doesn't that's the way you should go. ... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By C R Ellsworth @ Tuesday, 5th June 2007 @ 1:07 PM

HDTV will be a greater leap in the quality of the home entertainment experience than even the change from black-and-white TV to color, or Hi-Fi to Stereo, or AM to FM. HDTV, in addition to picture and sound will also deliver data services, such as electronic program guides or information related to the programs you watch. Local broadcast stations broadcasting in HD will be able to broadcast one extra high quality picture, or several separate camera angles equal to today's pictures. HDTV ... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Riley Hendersen @ Wednesday, 23rd May 2007 @ 3:18 AM

DirecTv or DishNetwork? High definition or regular? These are just a few of the choices you need to make when you decide to install a satellite television system in your home. Many people are choosing to change from high priced cable television to a satellite system because they sometimes offer more viewing and package options as well as more competitive prices. Over the years, satellite receivers have become more technical and now offer a variety of options to choose from. So, how exact... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Chris Marshall @ Wednesday, 16th May 2007 @ 12:41 AM

Virgin Media (VM) has taken Sky to court in the latest step in the ongoing public row between the two companies. Sky and Virgin Media fell out at the beginning of March over the price to be charged for the carriage of the Sky Basic Channels by the cable TV provider. The two sides failed to reach an agreement before the previous contract expired and as a result VM customers lost the Sky Basic Channels, including Sky One, Sky News and Sky Sports News. The very public fall-out and su... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Riley Hendersen @ Friday, 11th May 2007 @ 12:33 AM

Satellite receivers used to be large, clunky devices, that most homeowners had to give up their entire backyards to enjoy. The prohibitive size and the frequency these creations failed to actually receive the signals desired combined to make satellite an option that only a few pursued. Nowadays, however, satellite receivers have changed a lot. From their size to their reliability levels, these devices have come a long way through the years. While a satellite receiver will still be necessa... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Riley Hendersen @ Monday, 7th May 2007 @ 12:30 AM

Whether it's television, radio or telephone service that's desired, if satellite power is what a person wants, satellite descrambler devices will be needed to get the job done. Not all satellite descrambler devices are alike, however, but most come along with the packages purchased. A satellite descrambler is nothing more than a device that makes a satellite signal understandable. For example, a descrambler hooked up to a television receives and deciphers the signal so the pictu... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Troy Degarnham @ Thursday, 26th April 2007 @ 3:36 PM

Satellite TV packages are a collection of television channels that you purchase for a flat monthly fee from a direct broadcast satellite provider. The two main providers in the United States, Dish Network and Direct TV, provide a variety of package to meet the needs of varied households. Both offer several different packages. The simplest is the "family package", which provides local programming, plus a limited number of cable network channels. The selection is focused on whole... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Stephen Morgan @ Thursday, 26th April 2007 @ 9:26 AM

In these days of ever increasing charges for this service and for that service, increasing cable TV bills and so on it is refreshing to be reminded that there are actually available free alternatives to all of this, if you know where to look. If you know where to look is the key phrase here and then also if you also know to get access to them. Sounds great does it not but to those who are of the firm belief that there is no such thing as a free lunch then you are partly correct in ... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Chris James @ Wednesday, 25th April 2007 @ 1:49 PM

Digital TV is a means of transmitting picture and sound to your TV set. It is done by converting the pictures and sound into computerised bits of information and compressing it, then transmitting it from as transmitter to your aerial. The signal is then converted back into pictures and sound by your TV using a decoder. Digital TV provides the potential for hundreds of channels and services via a TV. This is because the digital signal is compressed, meaning it takes up less space in the airwaves,... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Ray La Foy @ Tuesday, 24th April 2007 @ 8:56 PM

A computer is one heck of a tool for working on. It can launch ships. Run incredibly complicated calculations and it can even help organize almost endless amounts of data. But, where a computer at home really shines is in the fact it's one heck of an entertainment device. Now, as the power of the computer is tapped into more readily, the PC TV is stepping forward to offer new entertainment solutions. The PC TV offers some advantages over regular television that were previously only i... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Riley Hendersen @ Tuesday, 24th April 2007 @ 8:38 PM

With more satellite providers coming online all the time, the age of cable television is slowly starting to come to an end. The advantages satellite has over regular cable are becoming more and more clear as subscribers to services such as Dish Network Satellite TV begin to grow. While it used to be services like Dish Network Satellite TV only worked on sunny days when the dish was held just right, technological advances have made images of people standing on their roofs to enhance recept... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Bill Reckwerdt @ Monday, 23rd April 2007 @ 12:36 AM

Over recent decades, the role of video images has grown steadily. Advances in technologies underlying the capture, transfer, storage, and display of images have created situations where communicating using images has become economically feasible. More importantly, video images are in many situations an extremely efficient way of communicating as witnessed by the proverb "a picture is worth a 1000 words." Notwithstanding these technological advances, the current state of the art re... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Troy Degarnham @ Friday, 20th April 2007 @ 11:08 AM

First of all, unlike earlier satellite communications which relied on a motorized dish to chase the mobile satellites across the sky, modern satellites are placed into a geosynchronous orbit about 37,000 km (22,300 miles) up. This means that they always remain above the same point on the earth's surface. That way, all dishes on the earth can be pointed at a fixed location, and the satellite will always be there. The signal to be broadcast originates at an "uplink center", w... more...

Technology » Cable and Satellite TV | By Roy Edwards @ Friday, 13th April 2007 @ 1:04 PM

If you're like me, I can't seem to do anything just one thing at a time. I have to be able to do multiple things all the time and that includes watching sports events. Watching one sports event at a time just doesn't work for me, I want to watch multiple sports events and Satellite Sports TV with the right TV makes it easy. Using either a split screen picture, picture-in-picture (PIP), or multiple televisions you can watch several sports events at the same time. In the wo... more...