The DTH technology involves individual dish placed outside the home that is able to receive signals from the service provider’s satellite and directs the signal onto the television inside the house. There are 5 major components that enable DTH technology to work.
- Broadcaster or the source of the TV programs. These are the channels that the service provider pays for obtaining the rights to broadcast them to its subscribers.
- Broadcast center that receives signals from different program sources or channels. The center then sends the broadcast signal to the satellite present in its geosynchronous orbit. This is the geostationary equatorial orbit of the satellite. The satellite completes one orbital round of the earth in one day.
- The satellite that receives the signal from the broadcast station. It then re-broadcasts or redirects the signal to the Earth.
- Individual dish attached to the outside of the subscribers house. This dish catches the signal from a single satellite or multiple satellites and passes it to the receiver that is present inside the viewer’s home.
- The receiver receives the signal from the dish and transmits to the television for viewing.
All the six Indian paid DTH service providers provide 24×7 programs that are accessible only on regular DTH recharge. For doing so the viewer needs to visit the online website of the service provider or one of resellers like Phonepe, Mobikwik and Paytm. Alternately one can also download the App of either the service provider or the resellers for timely DTH recharge.
All the Indian operators are required to use satellites commissioned by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Only in case the Indian satellites run out of space, the operators can use leased space from foreign satellites with the condition that these foreign satellites are the ones that ISRO have leased … Read More ...
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