Direct TV and High Definition Television (HDTV)


by David Johnson - Date: 2007-02-20 - Word Count: 374 Share This!

In the Direct TV package you can select, you can also choose to order HDTV. This will increase your number of TV channels, plus it switches on your HDTV capability.

Now that High Definition Television (HDTV) has entered in the entertainment industry, it has also made the advantages of the satellite TV more apparent. Today's cable TV providers also offer digital content, but it is not 100% digital. So if you want your TV to be 100% digital with superb picture quality, then you should go for the HDTV through a satellite provider. Really, you can get the maximum benefit of your HDTV equipment by using Direct TV.

Direct TV rebroadcasts local HDTV stations using the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec to solve the problem of bandwidth due to proliferation. For this they are employing a transmission protocol (DVB-S2) over the SPACEWAY-1 and SPACEWAY-2 satellites. So Direct TV is squeezing more High Definition programming over the older signal, which was using MPEG-2 compression and DSS protocol.

If you want to receive encoded channels in MPEG-4, it requires advanced receivers such as H20 and the 5-LNB Ka/Ku dish. To solve this problem, Direct TV made contacts with manufacturers in Korea and France to manufacture these advanced receivers. The manufacturing company in Korea provides # H20-600 receivers while the manufacturing company in France provides model # H20-100 receivers.

To decode the older signals of MPEG-2, Direct TV provides an HD DVR option, the HR10-250. These days, Direct TV local stations (outside of the NYC and LA network stations) are encoded in MPEG-4, which makes the HR10-250 obsolete in many markets. Direct TV announced that they will introduce100 national high definition channels - all of these high definition channels are expected to be MPEG-4 encoded. NBC, FOX, CBS AND ABC are the local network affiliates of broadcast in HDTV which will be widely available..

Using the advanced Direct TV and equipment of HDTV you can automatically search and record the program of your choice to view afterwards. These programs you can view whenever you want, at your own leisure. This makes the perfect alternative to tapes and tape recording, so you can throw those out. Also, using this method will cut out the time having to reprogram again and again.

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