What the orbit lives for: SES talked about the role of the satellite in modern television

Many of those who read these lines, probably, can recall those already quite distant times when the first satellite dishes began to appear on balconies and roofs of houses in our cities. Each such dish (or parabolic antenna) was, in some way, a landmark of the region – they looked at them with envy, and their owners were considered demigods. For these same owners of such plates had at their disposal a wide open window to another world – the world of multi-channel television. However, people who were not initiated, as a rule, did not really know how many channels the owner of such an antenna could receive, but all the same, they envied and were sure that there were “a lot”.
Years passed – the plates were reduced in size, overgrown with various additional “lotions” such as multifidov, motor suspensions and other gadgets. And cheaper, they grew in clusters on the roofs and walls of buildings, gradually turning from a luxury item into an ordinary household item, into the necessary and only available (for many viewers) television viewing tool. Which also continued to evolve, turning from analog to digital, increasing the number of pixels in the picture and sound quality and transforming into new forms.

In parallel with the technological plan, other means of delivering electronic data from one point to another — cable, terrestrial broadcasting, and the Internet — have also evolved. In particular, the latter. The speeds increased, the Continue reading →