2. CONTENTS
DTH SERVICES IN INDIA
PROBLEMS IN DTH SERVICES
SAT. SOLUTIONS
SAT.TV SYSTEMS
COMPONENTS IN DTH
SAT.TV SIGNALS
SATELLITE DISH
SATELLITE RECEIVER
3. A wireless digital audio / video service is delivered
through satellite.
Idea was 1st proposed in 1996, but they did not pass
approval because there were concerns over national
security and a cultural invasion.
Govt. put a ban in 1997 when the Rupert Murdoch-
owned Indian Sky Broadcasting (ISkyB) was about to
launch its DTH services in India.
Passed approval in 2000 but the signals can be
transmitted through Indian satellite.
4. 50% Market Size of over Rs. 1,428 crore 30%
15% 5%
5. Broadcast stations use a powerful antenna to transmit
radio waves to the surrounding area. Viewers can pick
up the signal with a much smaller antenna.
In order to receive these signals, you have to be in the
direct line of sight of the antenna. Since the planet is
curved, it eventually breaks the signal's line of sight.
The other problem with Broadcast TV is that the signal
is often distorted, even in the viewing area due to rain.
6. Satellite TV solves the problems by transmitting
broadcast signals from satellites orbiting the Earth
Satellites are higher in the sky than TV antennas, so
they have a much larger line of sight range.
The TV satellites stay in one place in the sky relative to
the Earth and revolve around the planet once every 24
hours
7. Satellite TV customers get their programming through
a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) provider, such as
DirecTV or DISH Network
The provider selects programs and broadcasts them to
subscribers as a set package.
The provider's broadcast is completely digital , which
means it has much better picture and sound quality
Digital broadcast satellite transmits programming in
the Ku frequency range (11.7 GHz to 14.5 GHz )
8. Programming Sources
Channels that provide programming for broadcast.
The provider doesn't create original programming itself; it pays
other companies (HBO, for example, or ESPN) for the right to
broadcast their content via satellite.
In this way, the provider is kind of like a broker between you
and the actual programming sources.
Broadcast Center
The central hub of the system.
The TV provider receives signals from various programming
sources and beams a broadcast signal to satellites in
geosynchronous orbit.
9. Satellites
Receive the signals from the broadcast station and
rebroadcast them to Earth.
Viewer's Dish
Picks up the signal from the satellite (or multiple
satellites in the same part of the sky) and passes it on
to the receiver in the viewer's house.
Receiver
Processes the signal and passes it on to a standard
TV.
10. Satellite signals have a pretty long path to
follow before they appear on your TV screen in
the form of your favorite TV show.
Because satellite signals contain such high-
quality digital data, it would be impossible to
transmit them without compression .
Compression simply means that unnecessary
or repetitive information is removed from the
signal before it is transmitted.
The signal is reconstructed after transmission.
11. Satellite TV uses a special type of video file
compression standardized by the Moving Picture
Experts Group (MPEG)
With MPEG compression, the provider is able to
transmit significantly more channels
MPEG Standards: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and
MPEG-21
MPEG-4 was originally designed for streaming
video in small-screen media like computers
Satellite TV uses MPEG-4 compression as it
provides high definition of quickly-moving objects
that constantly change place and direction on the
screen
12. At the broadcast center, the high-quality digital stream
of video goes through an MPEG encoder , which
converts the programming to MPEG-4.
Encoding works in conjunction with compression to
analyze each video frame and eliminate redundant or
irrelevant data.
The provider then encrypts it to keep people not
accessing it for free.
The broadcast center beams it directly to one of its
satellites.
The satellite picks up the signal with an onboard dish,
amplifies the signal and uses another dish to beam the
signal back to Earth, where viewers can pick it up.
13. When the signal reaches the viewer's house, it is captured by the
satellite dish.
The standard dish consists of a parabolic (bowl-shaped) surface
and a central feed horn .
To transmit a signal, a controller sends it through the horn, and
the dish focuses the signal into a relatively narrow beam.
To receive a signal, a beam hits the curved dish which reflects the
radio signal inward onto a particular point.
The central element in the feed horn is the low noise block down
converter (LNB) which amplifies the radio signal, filters out the
noise and passes the signal to the satellite receiver inside the
viewer's house.
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15. The end component in the entire satellite TV system is
the receiver
The receiver has four essential jobs:
It decrypts the encrypted signal
It takes the digital MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 signal and
converts it into an analog format that a standard
television can recognize.
It extracts the individual channels from the larger
satellite signal.
It keeps track of pay-per-view programs and
periodically phones a computer at the provider's
headquarters to communicate billing information.
16. Direct live Broadcast From Different places.
Wireless broadcast.
High Definition Audio/Video Signal.
