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Satellite TV's future
Are you interested in getting satellite TV? Read
this article and find out just exactly what satellite TV's future
holds for everyone.
What would Satellite TV's future be like? That may
seem to be a difficult question, but extrapolating what we know
about the past into the future and some educated guesses, we may
very well end up with a reasonable picture of what the future of
satellite TV looks like. Take into consideration the following:
1. Receive and Transmit
2. Equipment Size and Costs
3. Satellite
Capacity and Coverage
4. New Technologies
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Satellite TV's future include the following:
1. Receive and Transmit: What would be possible if you could not
only receive, but also transmit in the same bandwidth as
you receive? That would change the whole world, while it is possible
now to use the satellite for Internet purposes (but in a very
simple and inefficient way). You receive via satellite, but
transmit via phone, therefore the upload capacity is completely limited by the
dial up connection.
The idea of being able to transmit to a
satellite from your home is new and will probably one day be
reality. At the moment companies can use satellites to connect
offices all over the country via satellite, but because bandwidth is
limited or very expensive, they are also limited in what they can do.
2. Equipment Size and Costs: Your Dish Network or Satellite TV
equipment at home may seem small, the reason for this is because it only
has to receive the signal. Transmitting requires different equipment, not so much in the house, but on the roof at the antenna there
is need for a relative bigger transmitter. Also these are still
pretty expensive and for domestic use just not affordable.
In the future this should change, equipment will get smaller, and
cheaper. Eventually when satellites are able to transmit much more
data than now, having 10.000.000 transmitters on
the ground won't be a problem.
3. Satellite Capacity and Coverage: This will always be the bottle
neck of satellites; how much data can they transmit and how small
an area can they cover? A satellite has multiple dishes and each
dish can cover a part of the earth; small parts like just one
state or big parts like the whole United States.
In the future satellites will be able to relay even more data,
and therefore cover much smaller areas. Having full capacity available for just
a small area means higher bandwidth available for a small amount
of people. Especially in urban areas it will be great to have a
satellite covering a whole neighborhood.
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