Why the Direct TV Will be Around for a Long While

Apr 29
13:27

2007

David Johnson

David Johnson

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When the satellite TV service was introduced in mid 1900s, people were using long antennas and aerials to capture the faint signals being emitted from land based TV stations or the repeater towers stationed on high rise buildings, hills or mountains. The biggest problem with these signals being emitted from land based repeater towers was that they were weak, even at short distances. Hence they couldn’t be picked up by many antennas at distances of more than 100 miles from the signal towers. The direct consequence of this was that TV simply could not be viewed from distances greater than 100 miles.

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The introduction of the satellite TV services brought a new revolution in the electronics media,Why the Direct TV Will be Around for a Long While Articles because it made it possible to reach TV services at the every corner of the world. Unfortunately, it was yet far from the reach of the ordinary public. Because they needed a huge dish antenna that covered an area greater than a room size for this purpose. This antenna costs a huge amount of money, which an ordinary people simply could not afford. A few clever people in big towns started the business of providing the much needed service of cable TV by networking through the coaxial cable from their antenna farms. But one living in a rural or country region was out of luck when it came to getting early TV. It wasn’t profitable enough for cable TV service providers to establish themselves in rural regions, since the few customers they would likely receive wouldn’t be worth all the trouble and expenses that come with the cable TV business.

These problems are now bypassed by the introduction of the much smaller Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) dish antenna which came out almost a decade ago. This 18 inch wide DBS dish antenna is nowadays provided free of cost by Direct TV service providers to people that subscribe to this service for a year. This smaller and lighter antenna can be mounted even on the windowsills. With the introduction of this dish antenna, the people living in remote areas can now enjoy the high quality reception of hundreds of channels at an affordable cost. This antenna captures the signals broadcast from the any part of the world and is repeated through satellites. Therefore, Direct TV has grown at such a rapid pace that it is now the largest satellite TV service provider in the United States. About six thousand new customers subscribe everyday in the USA for Direct TV. Many people are ditching their old broadcast antennas and canceling their cable network subscriptions in the favor of the much advanced Direct TV technology and its premier services. Due to the innovative changes in Direct TV technology and its convenient features it is rapidly growing towards reaching the every TV consumer in the near future.