How Can I Save Money With Satellite TV | The Communication Blog

Thursday, April 1, 2010

How Can I Save Money With Satellite TV

By Kim Pascel

If you think that if having a satellite dish on your roof will bring you in touch with the world. The system has been in place since the early 1960's. Who knows if the government intended to position satellites in space so that millions could watch TV in their homes.

Television for many years was broadcast by radio waves. And of course before that we had radio. And before radio people got news and even entertainment via Morse code on the telegraph.

People used to keep up with the world series baseball games via telegraph. The message would come in from the person at the game and the game was actually shown on a large bill board with players moved to the various bases according to the telegraph reports. Now we have satellites in space to beam in images from across the world. If you have satellite TV you might catch the movie eight men out where they have the world series from the year 1919 to see how telegraph was used to keep people informed about the progress of the game.

This is main part due to the digital reception of the satellite feed. You can have fun watching your favorite shows to see the stars on the TV with their blemishes and the glare from the heads of the bald people on the screen. It makes watching reruns a new and fun experience.

Most homes are set up with a direct home version of satellite reception. And this is a receive only mode not a transmit mode. They signed up with a satellite TV provider like they would if they had gotten a cable television feed. The stations that broadcast the shows make their feed available to the satellite provider.

Then the company will install a satellite dish on the home. The company receives the signal from the broadcaster and then sends it out their customers. It is really a broker of broadcasts and not a provider of broadcasts. The dish is the antennae.

The dish is a type of antennae. You still need a receiver as you would need with a cable television system. The receiver unscrambles the reception and decodes the reception which allows you to see the image on the set. When some people think of satellite TV some get the idea of a vast limitless choice of television channel options.

Some might think this is the case when compared to their cable television choices. But the reality is that there are many many governmental controls in the satellite TV business. New legislation is always being passed limiting or controlling to some extent the broadcast of far away feeds. The competition is controlled to a great extent by many government mandates. The industry limits access to certain feeds for the sake of promoting other feeds which pay more money to them to make them available to their customers. It is in large part an issue of money. So there is some freedom in the satellite television market but there are many restraints also.

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