DIRECT TO HOME (DTH)

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WHAT IS DTH?

DTH stands for Direct-To-Home television. Defined as the reception of satellite programs with a personal dish in an individual home. DTH symbols the Transmission of digital video channel to home subscribers through small dish antinna

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DTH services were first proposed in India in 1996 but failed with approval. Due to national security, In 1997 Again Ban imposed Rupert Murdoch- owned INDIAN SKY BRODCASTING(ISKYB). Finally Approved & Allowed in 2000. New policy requires all operators to set up in 12 months for license. DTH licenses in India will cost $2.14 million and will be valid for 10 years.

WORKING OF DTH

A DTH network consists of a Broadcasting Centre Satellites Encoders Multiplexers Modulators and DTH receivers

DTH Vs CABLE TV
Satellite TV involves receiving signals from a satellite where as cable TV entails airing programs. The biggest difference between satellite and cable TV is the picture and sound quality. Unlike cable TV, satellite TV programs are excellent quality with some of them being high definition. Here are some guidelines that can help compare Dish Network with cable TV.

Dish tv
 Dish network features, HD, Dolby5.1ch, CD sound, superior picturequality with huge nos of Channelaccess.  Dish tv has remote geographical access with limited instalation

Cabel tv
 Average Accessed quality of sound and picture, Limited numbers of channels accessed.  Cable for subscriber is a limited to wire but major to the supplier with huge installation. Cable TV had manual access with least features but with Cable modem net.

 Special features- recording and play games , study aids for children, and language and home tutorial packages, with movies on demand.

BROADCAST TV VS. SATELLITE TV

 Satellite television is not like a broadcast television. It s a wireless system but both transmit via a radio signal.  Main limitation is range.  In order to receive signals, one must be in the direct line of sight of the antenna.  Reflect radio waves. Small obstacles is not a problem but earth.   Other limitation is, signals are often distorted. The television satellites are all in geosynchronous orbit.

SATELLITE
Geostationary satellite plays an important role for DTH system
GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE:-

Geostationary satellite are located exactly above the earths equator and revolve around the earth in a circular orbit. Geostationary satellites are positioned at an exact height above the earth (about 36000 Km). At this height they rotate around the earth at the same speed as the earth rotates around its axis

MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group, and pronounced m-peg, is a working group of the ISO. The term also refers to thefamily of digital videocompression standards and fileformats developed by the group. MPEG generallyproduces better-quality video than competing formats,such as Video for Windows, Indeo and QuickTime. MPEGfiles previously on PCs needed hardwaredecoders(codecs) for MPEG processing. MPEG compression is accomplished through the use offour basic techniques: preprocessing, temporal prediction,motion compensation, and quantization coding

BROADCAST CENTER

The broadcast center converts all of this programming into a high-quality, uncompressed digital stream. At this point, the stream contains a vast quantity of dataabout 270 megabits per second (Mbps) for each channel.
For DTH system communication channel is air and Band-Width is : Ku Band Uplink : 13.75 to 14.5 GHz Ku Band Down links : 10.95 to 11.2 GHz : 11.45 to 11.70 GHz :12.50 to 12.75 GHz

RECEIVING TERMINALS

Receiver solid Antenna

The receive terminals are basically for the reception of the signals being beamed from the transmission station. The terminal consists of the following: receive type solid offset antenna LNB feed system Interface cables & Set top box The terminal can be placed outside the window of a high rise building, on the ground or a roof mount. The terminals can be used as per the contents being beam by the transmission stations.

LNB
LNB is the part of a satellite antenna which is positioned in front of the dish to receive the signal and converts thesignal to be carried by cableto the receiver . Low noise block down converter is the antenna of what is commonly called the parabolic satellite dish commonly used in satellite TV reception.

set-top box is a device that enables a television set become a user interface to the Internet and alsoenables a television set to receive and decode digitaltelevision (DTV) broadcasts.
DTV set-top boxes are sometimes called receivers. A set-top box is necessary to television viewers whowish to use their current analog television sets toreceive digital broadcasts.

DTH APPLICATION
Doordarshan free-to-air services providing 40 TV channels with no subscription fees is an attractive preposition to people in urban and rural areas. A number has started IP broadcast with return channel on PSTN line and this would be for education and other application.

DTH BENEFITS
Cost effective communication , information and entertainment. DTH services are transparent providing digital quality video, audio, radio, and IP to all at equal prices and other benefits with reliability

CONCLUSION
DTH has made the hopes of the people of ruralareas to come true. It helps to develop and explorethe ignited mind of people of India to think beyondthe scope of imagination. It also helps to developthe economic conditions of a country.

The DTH market in INDIA is relatively increase day -byday, Major competitors like Airtel ,Reliance,TATA, Videocon market clash would managed toovertake Japan as the largest DTH market in Asia.In the next 5 years (by 2014-15) we will be able toadd another 30 million subscribers .(which is aboutthe same as the population of Belgium, Portugaland Greece puttogether.