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The signals of BADR 6, EUROBIRD-2/26° East & EUTELSAT W2A/10° East satellites can be received in India with 12 ft. solid fiber dish. The footprint of this satellite is available in India. The signals of HOTBIRD 8/13° East footprint does not reach in whole India. But some persons of North India have claimed that they got the same. In my opinion, after regular practice, you would be able to catch HOTBIRD signal in our country. There are also Pay possibilities in International or movie channels in HOTBIRD 6/8/9/13° East. But even in these cases, you would still need permission from the channel’s provider. You require some extra signal strength thus making the dish size more like 16 ft solid fiber glass. c) Depending on the satellite want to hit, the size of the dish can differ. Usually people’s can use a prime-focal dish for C-band reception. I recommended to use for C-band at least 16 ft. fiber dish is much more highly recommended.
Also you can buy HD FTA receiver. Unfortunately, a standard MPEG2 FTA receiver will not decode HD signals. Free-to-air or FTA Receiver is a satellite television receiver designed to receive unencrypted broadcasts. Modern decoders are typically compliant with the MPEG-4/DVB-S2/8PSK/HD standard for digital television, while older FTA receivers relied on MPEG-2/DVBS satellite transmissions which have declined rapidly in recent years. Also some Indian channels will inevitably move to incompatible signal formats (such as MPEG 4:2:2, 8PSK, DVB-S2, or MPEG-4), change from free to encrypted, move to different satellite locations (often across bands, where C band reception requires much larger antennae) or shut down entirely. In somcases support for additional standards (such as DVB-S2, MPEG-4 and 8PSK) will also become necessary to receive a viewable signal. The use of newer means of modulation and compression is likely to become more widespread for high-definition television feeds, in order to partially offset the larger amount of transponder space required to deliver high-definition video to television stations. In fact if you also try to tune to an HDTV signal with a standard receiver, in many cases the receiver will be very unhappy with that and lock up on you. It would be necessary to turn the receiver completely off (unplug it) and turn it back on after waiting a short time (30 seconds or so). There are various HD receivers available in the international (Singapore or Bangkok) market. If you want to view MPEG4/DVB-S2HD FTA signals, you need an MPEG4/DVB-S2/HD compatible receiver.
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I am reader of your Magazine. Hope you will guide me clearly on this issue. What is Video Resolution? I will be greatly thankful to you? I am anxiously waiting for your reply to me as soon as possible.
(By Email: Monoj Arora/Allahabad/Uttar Pradesh)
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When you shop for a television, DVD player, or camcorder, your discussion with the salesperson always seems to touch a lot on factors revolving around resolution. It's lines this and pixels that and so forth... After a while, none of it seems to make sense. In the following article, I shed some light on this topic, hopefully making the nature of video resolution more understandable. A television or recorded video image is basically made up of scan lines. Unlike film, in which the whole image is projected on a screen at once, a video image is composed of rapidly scanning lines across a screen starting at the top of the screen and moving to bottom. These lines can be displayed in two ways. The first way is to split the lines into two fields in which all of the odd numbered lines are displayed first and then all of the even numbered lines are displayed next, in essence, producing a complete frame. This process is called interlacing or interlaced scan. The second method, used in digital video recording, digital TVs, and computer monitors, is referred to as progressive scan. Instead of displaying the lines in two alternate fields, progressive scan allows the lines to displayed sequentially. This means that both the odd and even numbered lines are displayed in numerical sequence.
Digital TV Resolution Standards
In current digital TV standards, there are a total of 18 video scan rates that are approved by the FCC for use in the U.S. system. Fortunately, for the consumer, and for this Guide, there are only three that are commonly used. The three vertical scan line systems used in digital TV are 480p (480 lines vertically scanned in a progressive fashion), 720p (720 lines vertically scanned in a progressive fashion), and 1080i (1,080 lines scanned in an interlaced fashion).
Based on vertical scan rates, digital TV has much more capacity for a finer detailed image than that of analog TV. However, In order to display the raw scan lines, a video monitor has to be able to reproduce the full detail of the incoming DTV or HDTV program material. In addition, true HDTV is also dependent on a monitor that displays the image in a 16x9 screen shape. However, there are also HDTV monitors in the traditional 4x3 shape, in which case a 16x9 image is displayed in a letterbox format, with black lines on the top and bottom of the screen. Another factor on how a digital TV image is displayed is the actual size of the screen. Basically you can fit more dots on a 50-inch Plasma Screen than a 27-inch Direct View DTV.
1080p
There is a lot of talk about 1080p being the "Holy Grail" of high definition resolution. 1080p represents 1,080 lines of resolution scanned sequentially. In other words, all lines are scanned in progressively, providing the most detailed high definition video image that is currently available to consumers. As a result of this advance, there are now a growing number of Televisions available that are termed "1080p Compatible". Access to 1080p is determined by whether your HDTV has the ability to access a 1080p signal from a source directly, or your HDTV has to scale and process all signal inputs to 1080p internally.
1080p/60 vs 1080p/24
Almost all HDTVs that accept a 1080p input signal directly accept what is known as 1080p/60. 1080p/60 represents a 1080p signal transferred and displayed at a rate of 60 frames-per-second (30 frames displayed twice per second). This is a standard progressive scan 1920x1080 pixel video signal. However, with the advent of Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD, a new variation of 1080p is being promoted and implemented: 1080p/24. What 1080p/24 represents is the frame rate of standard 35mm film transferred directly in its native 24 frames-per-second from a source (such as a film on a Blu-ray or HD-DVD disc). This means that in order to display this image on an HDTV, the HDTV has to have the ability to display 1080p resolution at 24 frames per second.
Don't Get Confused
If you are still a little confused, you are not alone. Remember, video resolution can be stated either in lines or pixels. However, don't get caught up in all the video resolution numbers. Look at it this way, VHS looks great on a 13-inch TV, but "crappy" on a big screen. In addition, resolution isn't the only factor that contributes to a good TV image. Factors such as color accuracy, contrast ratio, brightness, maximum viewing angle, and whether the image is interlaced or progressive, all contribute to quality of the picture. You can have a very detailed image, but if the other factors mentioned aren't sufficiently present, you have a lousy TV. Even the best TVs can't make a poor import source look good. In fact, ordinary broadcast TV (with its low resolution) sometimes looks worse on an HDTV that it does on a good, standard, analog set.
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