Satellite Tv Not As Free As You Might Think

Satellite TV Not As Free As You Might Think if you think you can tune into any station from around the world. The ability to watch satellite TV has been around since the early sixties. We do not know if the main reason the government put satellites in orbit to watch TV but it is certainly making money from it. And also the government can control much of the use of satellite feeds. They were the ones who put them up there after all.

It is remarkable what people have done to get a better television feed. But if there is money to be made then the technology will follow. Before satellite TV was broadcast over radio waves. And before that we listened to radio for news and entertainment. And before radio it was the Morse code driven telegraph that kept people informed.

Now we have in orbit satellites to beam news from one section of the world to the next. And if you have compared satellite with other forms of television you can see a much better image on our set. And also you can hear a better audio feed.

And if you compare the satellite image with that from the cable company you will see a lot better image. This is because of the digital reception the satellite service provides. It is interesting to see your favorite shows in satellite broadcast. You can see some blemishes on your favorite TV stars and the glare off people who have no hair on their heads.

Most homes are set up with a direct home version of satellite reception. And this is a receive only mode not a transmit mode. They signed up with a satellite TV provider like they would if they had gotten a cable television feed. The stations that broadcast the shows make their feed available to the satellite provider.

Customers need a satellite dish on their home to capture the feed from their provider. This means the satellite television provider does not broadcast the programs itself. It merely contracts with the broadcasters of the program feeds. The provider then acts a type of broker. The dish acts as a receiver. The ones that are installed on the homes of those who are satellite TV customers can only act as receivers.

The dish reaches out and brings in the signal. The receiver or satellite box attached to the set is the component that unscrambles the feed and makes the image available on your screen. When some people hear satellite TV they think of unlimited TV channels. They see themselves having thousands of channels from all over the world.

Perhaps when they compare this with most cable providers they might have more channel choices. But the truth is there is a lot of money in this industry. And money controls. There is also a lot of government intervention and control. You may not know that you are very much limited in what far away stations you can tune into. The government controls the providers to the extent that the choices you get are very much limited by the government and the sponsors of TV shows that do not want you straying away from their commercials they know you love to watch in between you television broadcasts. Whether the way it is now was the way the government envisioned it is anyone's guess.