Satellite Television Service

All About Satellite Dish TV

Sure, DIRECTV and DIRECTV, the leaders in dish TV service, compete head-to-head for your business. But is satellite dish TV the best solution to your viewing needs? Yes. Cable simply can't match satellite dish TV service, whether DIRECTV or DISH.

Why Settle for Cable When You Can Have Dish TV?

More channels, better picture and better service, what more would you want from a television provider? We've all dealt with cable companies before - interactions that lead to more frustration than fruition, from setting an installation date to dealing with outages.

DIRECTV has actually outperformed Cable in customer satisfaction ratings for more than a decade, according to the 2011 annual study by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). In fact, DIRECTV rated #1 in customer satisfaction among all major cable and satellite television providers, including DIRECTV.

How Does Satellite Dish TV Work in a Technical Sense?

Your satellite dish receives the signal from the orbiting satellite. The dish is relatively small, about 18 - 24 inches in circumference and is easily affixed on the exterior of your house or building. The decoder is linked to your television set and its function is to change the signal received by the dish into the sound and images you experience when you turn on your TV.

Like any other type of communications relayed via satellite, dish TV starts with a large transmitting antenna located at an uplink facility. The uplink dishes can be as much as 30 to 40 feet in diameter. The greater the diameter, the greater is the ability of the dish to aim with accuracy and with increased strength at the satellite. The dish points toward a specific satellite in orbit. The uplinked signals are transmitted within a particular range of frequency to enable it to be received by a corresponding transponder aboard the satellite tuned to that frequency.

Better Quality Than Cable - It's in the Technology

Your satellite receiver converts the signals to the desired output for audio and visual data then sends the data to your TV set. The result is the high-quality audio and visual you get with your programming - higher quality than cable and with more to choices too. Ultimately, the difference between cable and dish TV shows through most clearly only your screen. Even High Definition Cable is no match for flawless satellite HD. Broadcast literally out-of-this world TV straight from space to your satellite dish. And when you do, choose America's favorite satellite dish TV provider - DIRECTV.

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