Articles about Satellite Radio
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Broadcasting digital radio via satellite is not something new and concepts of doings this have been with us for a few years. From the early days of satellite radio, companies like Dish Network have offered digital audio channels as part of their programs. The breakthrough in popularity of satellite radio, however, happened just recently, when the technology became more permissive. Satellite radio was very rare on moving locations, such as boats or cars, mostly because there was the need for some expensive equipment – a tracking dish. This was a strong deterrent which kept satellite radio quite unknown by the general public. Today, however, one can receive digital audio satellite broadcasts by using a small, GPS-like antenna. This greatly increased the feasibility of the satellite radio systems and more and more vehicle owners began considering satellite radios as a good source of music and news.
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
With the choice of so many programming providers out there it can be difficult deciding on which is right for you and your family. Of course there are some basic factors that can alleviate this decision based on the type of viewing that is desired in your home.
In large cities such as Houston, Texas there are three major providers. These are Dish Network, Direct TV, and of course, Comcast. To be fair to all three there are distinct advantages to each.
For Comcast they tend to have less chance of signal loss during a major storm. However, when signal is lost due to a down or cut line, repair is longer to achieve. In addition pricing is somewhat higher than Direct or Dish. Quality of picture is also an issue, especially if the house is further on down the line as signal strength weakens. And of course, in February of 2009 all cable customers will need a box for each tv wanting service.
Direct TV like Dish has %100 digital programming unlike cable. Where Direct is possibly a better choice over the other two is in the area of NFL fans. Direct TV is the only provider to have the Sunday NFL Ticket where fans can watch all the games on Sunday. This service is usually an additional $300 or more in addition to the regular programming package fees. Also, unlike Dish, a receiver is needed for each tv.
Where Dish Network distinguishes themselves from Comcast and Direct TV is in their overall product. Dish has %100 digital programming, the NFL Network is in one of their lowest priced packages, each receiver is capable of operating two televisions instead of one, their regular pricing is lower than the rest, and signal loss is only on average two to five minutes in the rare occurrence signal is lost. In addition to the regular cd music available, Sirius Satellite music comes included with their mid to high level packaging at no extra cost. And, when it comes to High Definition programming (HDTV) Dish is the leader.
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Once you have looked into these problems and know the road safety rules regarding a portable satellite TV you will be able to look at the different satellite dishes. These dishes come in many shapes and sizes. You will need to look for one that you can also afford. As this is still a relatively new invention, the price for a portable satellite TV is fairly steep.
However if you can afford to buy such a portable satellite TV there are many benefits to be experienced. The main advantage is that of the hours of entertainment your family will get for long distance journeys. The number of different programs that you will be able to find.
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Sirius satellite radio Inc has Earth based broadcast stations that are used to send up information to the satellites, which is then dispersed through out the world. These channels are fed into the monitors through transmission of the signals received by the ground from the satellites. The signals are then picked up by the radio receiver which it also picks up the channel and transmitted to your Sirius radio by way of your Sirius antenna. Besides all of the music channels, added to that is the array are a multitude of news channels, sports, entertainment, and talk shows. And this is not to mention the many channels of traffic and up-to-date weather channels aired to most of the major cities in mainland United States and Canada. Sirius satellite radio Inc has also partnered with three of the worlds major sports giants - The NFL, NBA and NASCAR.
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Wait until you get across an antenna booster for your Sirius satellite radio. It is the inexpensive solution for this dilemma. Sirius antenna boosters are the latest technology your Sirius satellite radio should not come without. With the Sirius antenna booster, you will no longer needlessly suffer from the sometimes irritating occurrences where signals coming from your satellite are interrupted because they have been beamed to ground repeaters for the listeners in your nearby urban areas. But with the antenna booster, which can be added and easily installed, the signal is maximized to up to more than satisfying signal capabilities.
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
What is Sirius Satellite Radio? Sirius Satellite Radio broadcasts 130 channels of digital quality commercial-free music and talk programming to listeners in cars, trucks, homes, RVs, and boats throughout the continental United States. The music including pop, rock, r&b, hip hop, country, Christian, blues, jazz, classical, latin and more. The talk radio covers it all with news, political opinions, religion, financial news, public radio, international news, weather, and special niche shows. Sirius Satellite Radio also brings you celebrity hosts like Barbara Walters, Howard Stern, Deepak Chopra, Richard Simmons and movie critics Peter Guber and Peter Bart to name a few. In addition to great music SIRIUS Satellite radio brings you exclusive coverage of the NFL®, NBA®, NASCAR® and other great sports.
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Saturday, November 4th, 2006
With a Harrisburg Free Dish Network Satellite service that starts at just a dollar a per day and the fact that you can acquire a totally free satellite TV system I think DISH Network satellite TV is a real bargain for every bargain shopper out there. Click on the following link for more information on Harrisburg Free Dish Network Satellite TV and educate yourself before ordering. We will show you the latest offers and bonuses from DISH Network satellite TV and DIRECTV satellite TV when stop for a visit.
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
You need the best satellite products for your home and business needs, and luckily for you, the market is teeming with the latest and greatest satellite products. Technology has reached levels of achievement only thought possible in your wildest imagination. This includes satellite service for your television, your radio, and even your Internet set up.
Satellite TV is possibly one of the most mainstream and accessible satellite products in the country now. Subscription satellite service has energized the American television like no other technology since the television was invented. With it hooked into your television, you no longer have to rely on the static and interference of rabbit ears, or the cost and inconvenience of cable companies. You get as much programming and choices that you can handle, all of it in digital quality visual and surround sound audio. And all of it, amazingly, comes without commercials…
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Satellite radio tuners receive, along with the actual radio programs, an influx of metadata that consists of information regarding song title, artist, radio program and radio channel. This means that your satellite radio receiver will display all the necessary information about what you are listening to. For instance, if you hear a great song and you want to know which artist sings it, you just look at the receiver‘s display
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Although satellite radio is not just for automobiles, industry sources say that is where the future lies. With a signal being broadcast, not from the highest mountain around but from 22,000 miles in space, you will never lose the signal.
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
The Canadian satellite radio industry received quite a lot of interest and in the end three main applications were filed: XM filed one in partnership with Canadian Satellite Radio and Sirius filed an application with Standard Broadcasting and the CBC.
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Everybody has heard about satellites. But how many people heard about satellite radios? Satellite radio is a subscription radio service. It’s somehow identical to cable television, with the difference that it provides a wider range of stations not available on a standard AM / FM radio. There are many questions to be answered about satellite radios like “How does satellite radios work?”, “What kind of equipment should I purchase?” etc. but in this article I will try to answer a question that first pops up in everybody’s mind: “HOW MUCH DOES SATELLITE RADIO COST”?
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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Another event that rocked the satellite radio world was Howard Stern’s online streaming on Sirius. His appearance on the Sirius Satellite Radio gave a new light on the Sirius company, as one that offers more than radios and broadcasting means – as one that offers genuine content.
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
Broadcasting digital radio via satellite is not something new and concepts of doings this have been with us for a few years. From the early days of satellite radio, companies like Dish Network have offered digital audio channels as part of their programs. The breakthrough in popularity of satellite radio, however, happened just recently, when the technology became more permissive.
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
Satellite radio means pay-radio or it may also be called a subscription radio. It is a little bit like the traditional one, but it has more programs than it. It’s available in Africa, Asia and Europe due to the services provided by WorldSpace and in North America by Sirius and XM Radio.
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
The idea of America’s biggest two satellite-radio joining forces has been up in the air for almost four years. Although XM had a year’s start, Sirius came back on the market, eventually with both companies sharing the market in half. So, what’s to choose? XM or Sirius?
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Any song you hear on satellite radio stars as a recording in a specific format on different recording mediums. In most cases, the recording quality has to be maintained fairly high, usually around 384kb/s, while also being reasonably small enough to be transported on CDs and DVDs.
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Monday, August 14th, 2006
A half an hour of radio news on the way to work might be enough for some people to feel connected to the world, but for me it barely even begins to make me feel in touch. If I do not know all of the important things that are going on in every part of the world all day, right from the convenience of my computer desktop, I might as well be in the middle of nowhere without even wireless internet. And that is where my Fox desktop news ticker comes in.
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Monday, August 7th, 2006
Together with XM Radio, Sirius Satellite Radio is one of the two main providers of digital radio broadcasting in the United States. Sirius Satellite Radio currently broadcasts on over 120 channels with a variety of broadcasts including music, talk shows, news broadcasts and different other forms of audio entertainment.
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Sunday, August 6th, 2006
Satellite radio is often considered one of the biggest improvements in broadcasting since the introduction of the FM band. Satellite radio is also called subscription radio or pay-radio because it is only available trough subscription to one of the satellite radio providing companies. Satellite radio follows a concept similar to cable television by providing a very wide range of programs which are not available in the traditional FM or AM format for a fee.
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Friday, August 4th, 2006
If you are like me, you may live in a part of the country that just doesn’t have a great selection of radio stations, let alone have anything you want to listen to. For less than $13 a month, you can have access to over 125 channels, which are completely commercial free. Whatever you like, Sirius Satellite Radio has it.
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Friday, June 30th, 2006
The road a broadcasted signal takes to get from the broadcasting building to your house is a long and windy one. There are many steps involved and many appliances involved getting it from point A to point B. there are many components involved in this process and I am here to tell you them and what they do!
When a show is filmed the broadcasting service gets that video and uploads it to the TV satellite dish. Now as a subscriber to a satellite service provider, you get access to those uploaded videos. Depending on what type of cable you have, digital or analog. There are certain ways to obtain it.
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Saturday, June 24th, 2006
Techtoolsblog.com gives us a wonderful rundown on Sirius Satellite Radio:
If you are like me, you may live in a part of the country that just doesn’t have a great selection of radio stations, let alone have anything you want to listen to. For less than $13 a month, you can have access to over 125 channels, which are completely commercial free. Whatever you like, Sirius Satellite Radio has it. For a nominal price you can purchase a Sirius Satellite Radio system for your vehicle or your home, or you can buy an extra docking station and use one transmitter and switch them between the two. Sirius Satellite Radio systems can be purchased at many electronic retail stores, including Best Buy and Circuit city.
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
XM satellite radio works basically as the radio version of cable television. For a monthly fee you get access, through your specially-equipped radio, to access a worldwide, satelite-fed radio network. These radio stations are often arranged by genre, and can be heard anywhere across the U.S., even in the mountains.
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
If you are like me, you may live in a part of the country that just doesn’t have a great selection of radio stations, let alone have anything you want to listen to. For less than $13 a month, you can have access to over 125 channels,
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Are you familiar with XM satellite radio? You should be! It may be a well kept secret at this point in time, but not for long!
Between visiting friends and family, going on rock climbing trips, and trying to see the world, I end up going on a lot of road trips. I’ve crisscrossed the country quite a few times, all without any in-car DVD player or sedatives for the passengers.
Music has always been important, and my friends and I usually bring all of our CDs along with us in giant folders and binders. Every time a new driver takes over they choose half a dozen different discs and put them somewhere easily accessible so the rest of us can sleep for another few hours. The time usually passes pretty quickly, though eventually the music usually wears thin.
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
A great article on Howard Stern.
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One school of critics vilifies Howard Stern as a smut slinger; another group sympathizes with Stern as a victim of oppressive intellectual megalomania; still other groups—well, many, actually—imitate the Stern model of ball-breaking other-directed humor…
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
For the one or two of you who don’t yet have satellite radio, shame on you! For oly a few bucks a month you get commercial free music, Howard Stern (Sirius only,) tons of sports, more varieties of music than you can shake an antenna at, and no commercials on the music stations.
What more could you want? Oh yeah, no more channel surfing as youi drive across the state or country. Sounds good to me.
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
XM Satellite Radio has many stations to choose from all for under $13 per month. You can listen to Decades, Country, Hits, Christian, Rock, Urban, Jazz & Blues, Dance, Lifestyle, Latin, World, Classical, Kids, News, Sports, Comedy, Talk, Traffic, and Weather without having to sign a contract binding you to be a customer for a specified length of time. You can even listen to your satellite radio online from your personal computer using your personal user identification and password.
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
An article about Satellite Radio.
The two big players in the satellite radio business, also called digital radio, are XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. Each is offering near CD quality music beamed to your home, office, or car from outer space.
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Saturday, March 25th, 2006
If you’re looking for that home theater system that won’t break the bank, hop online and see what’s out there. While it can be beneficial to check out the products in person, choose to buy them online. I guarantee you will save some bucks. With the Internet you can sort through all of the websites that offer home theater systems and more.
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