FAQs on Satellite TV

You’ve heard about satellite TV, your friends have heard about satellite TV, everybody has heard about satellite TV and the spectacular benefits you’re supposedly going to get for your boob tube  when you sign up for satellite TV service. You’ve also heard that satellite TV is supposedly better than cable. You’ve also heard the term satellite dish, which supposedly is that parabolic contraption is sitting on top of many of your neighbors’ roofs. But that’s it. Everything you knew about satellite TV, you’ve only heard of it and now your curiosity is piqued. Got questions about satellite dish TV and you’re itching for some answers? This FAQs page will help you out.

What is a satellite TV and how does it work?

It’s is a television system which works by broadcasting video and audio signals from geostationary satellites to satellite dishes on the Earth's surface. How does satellite TV work? In a nutshell, satellites of satellite dish networks are launched 22,300 miles from the earth where they keep a geosynchronous orbit over the earth. Your satellite TV service provider then focuses your satellite dish to an individual satellite. Your satellite dish has a feed horn which takes the signal and feeds it through a cable to your satellite receiver which is that box that sits in your living room. Your satellite receiver then converts these signals to the desired form to produce a TV picture from the wideband FM video and to allow you to tune SUBCARRIER audio and even Data Text reception.

What makes satellite TV so special? What makes it not so special?

Why not just stick to Cable TV? Satellite TV boasts of over 200 hundred channels plus pay channels as well. That’s about 5 times more channels that you get from Cable. And with all these channels, you’re sure to get an abundant number of TV programs that you can’t find from cable. Whether you’re a sports buff, an art and culture lover, a news freak, or a fanatic for all things foreign, satellite TV has it all. Also when it comes to image and sound quality, satellite TV is incomparable. From the satellites orbiting the earth in a geosynchronous pattern, to the satellite dish waiting on your roof straight to the satellite receiver that sits in your living room, satellite TV delivers 100% digital audio and video. The downside… Well, since your satellite dish needs to be pointed towards the sky to get all those signals, you’d have to have as much of an obstructed view of the sky as possible. People who live in apartments or where there are a lot of vertical obstruction may not be able to get a clear reception or get none at all.

Interested---Getting your satellite TV is quite easy. Just contact your preferred satellite dish network like DirecTV or Dish. Once you subscribe to their satellite service, they’ll give you the necessary equipment, like the satellite dish and the satellite receiver, and even install your satellite TV themselves. Then you can stretch out in your relaxing couch and enjoy the amazingly detailed and realistic pictures from the hundreds of channels of satellite TV.