DirecTV-How Does it Work
Can these small DirecTV dishes really deliver?
When satellite TV first came onto the scene, the satellite receivers were huge. And the amount of entertainment available was limited. You may even recall seeing those big dishes scattered about. Today, these dishes have evolved and are so compact they can be installed virtually anywhere.
In spite of their small size when compared to the first satellite receivers, today’s DirecTV dishes provide an amazing variety of entertainment. Your direct TV network satellite dish receives transmitted signals from 6 high-power satellites. These satellites are known as, DBS-1, DBS-2, DIRECTV 1-R, D4-S, DIRECTV 5, and finally DirecTV 6.
The satellite TV technology used by Direct TV is so sophisticated that one of these satellites is capable of transmitting specific channels to pre-designated areas of the U.S. This allows for local channels, as well as national and international ones, to be picked up and beamed out throughout the United States.
Using broadcast centers located in Colorado, Los Angeles and Castle Rock, Direct TV’s satellite TV system supplies digital quality sound and images of DVD standard. This high quality crispness is achieved with technology that allows the programs used on the network to be digitized, encrypted, and compressed as necessary before they are sent out via the system to subscribers.
The technology Direct TV uses also delivers exceptionally crisp clear pictures. The digital satellite signals sent from the satellite go through the receiver box connected to your television, which then converts the signals to a language that the analog television systems can understand.
The quality that Direct TV is able to send out to its customers rivals, or even exceeds that of a home theatre system! In fact, the home theater experience itself is enhanced when you acquire your programming using DirecTV.
Professional installation is important
The satellite dish that a customer attaches to their home is installed so that it points at the Direct TV satellite system up in the geosynchronous orbit. From then on, the process of locking onto the satellites is automatic, and the satellite dish remains in the same position.
Don’t worry if you don’t understand what this means. Free, professional installation will be included with any good service you get. This saves you the headache of putting it in the right place. The one requirement for good placement is a clear view of the southern sky with no impeding trees or high buildings to block the signal. Current law even allows most local and residential regulations to be bypassed for installation.
The other piece of "equipment" required to get your system working is the access card. This card fits into your receiver and contains all the setting information that the system requires to work to your specification, including the billing information.
As a Direct TV subscriber, you’ll have approximately 225 channels to choose from, all beamed into your home via the satellite dish. Not only do you get the popular and commonplace channels, such as CNN and Disney, but you will also receive specialized and other less well-known channels.
Today’s satellite TV technology is so advanced that television channels from overseas in foreign languages are also available to Direct TV customers. You can view television programs in a variety of different languages and from a variety of sources and points of view.
Despite the access to such an incredible variety in entertainment, the equipment still allows parents to use the "Locks and Limits" feature. This helps you ensure that your children are not watching inappropriate material, or overspending on pay-for-view items.
A dish satellite TV system offers you many advantages such as digital quality sound and pictures, a wide variety of entertainment choices, free professional installation, full parental control over the programming allowed and much more. And at prices that are very competitive to any other service. And the technology is improving constantly.
