Satellite television
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Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. The signals are r
A number of satellite dishes
Back view of a linear polarised LNB
A multiswitch made by TechniSat
A DTH Satellite dish from India
Cable television
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Cable television is a system for delivering broadcast programming to viewers by radio frequency signals transmitted through coaxial cable and through fibre-optic cable. Cable television is contrasted
Satellite television
…a wide range of channels and services. It is usually the only television available in many remote geographic areas without terrestrial television or cable television service. Different receivers are required for the two types. Some transmissions and channels are unencrypted and therefore free-to-air, while many other…
A sign warning about a buried CATV cable in the area
A coaxial cable used to carry cable television to the subscribers' premises
A set-top box is an electronic device that receives the cable signal into the television set. Presented unit is a Cisco RNG200N for QAM digital cable television system used in North America.
A cable television distribution box (left) in the basement of a building in Germany (Kabel BW network, now Vodafone), with a splitter (right) which supplies the signal to separate cables which go to different rooms