List of direct broadcast satellite providers From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Contents 1 Africa 1.1 Middle East, North Africa and the Levant territories 2 Asia 2.1 India 2.2 Indonesia 2.3 Iran 2.4 Israel 2.5 Japan 2.6 Malaysia 2.7 Mongolia 2.8 Philippines 2.9 Sri Lanka 2.10 Thailand 2.11 South Korea 2.12 Nepal 3 Pacific 3.1 Australia 4 Europe 4.1 Albania 4.2 Austria 4.3 Belgium 4.4 Bulgaria 4.5 Croatia 4.6 Cyprus 4.7 Czech Republic 4.8 Denmark 4.9 France 4.10 Finland 4.11 Georgia 4.12 Germany 4.13 Greece 4.14 Hungary 4.15 Ireland 4.16 Italy 4.17 Netherlands 4.18 Norway 4.19 Poland 4.20 Portugal 4.21 Romania 4.22 Russia 4.23 Serbia 4.24 Slovakia 4.25 Spain 4.26 Sweden 4.27 Switzerland 4.28 Turkey 4.29 United Kingdom 4.30 Ukraine 5 North America 5.1 Canada 5.2 United States of America 6 Latin America 6.1 Argentina 6.2 Bolivia 6.3 Brazil 6.4 Colombia 6.5 Chile 6.6 Ecuador 6.7 Peru 6.8 Paraguay 6.9 Uruguay 6.10 Venezuela 6.11 Mexico This is a list of direct broadcast satellite providers, operating around the world. Africa Middle East, North Africa and the Levant territories Arab Digital Distribution Arab Radio and Television Network Orbit Showtime TopTV Multichoice HiTV Infinity TV, Nigeria ZAP [1] East / West / South Africa DSTV Asia India Airtel digital TV DD Direct + Dish TV Reliance Digital TV Sun Direct Tata Sky Videocon d2h Indonesia Astro Nusantara Indosat Mega Media/IM2 Indovision TelkomVision Iran IRIB Israel yes Japan SKY PerfecTV! Malaysia Astro Mongolia DDishTV_LLC Philippines Dream Satellite TV G Sat Cignal Digital TV Sri Lanka Dialog TV Thailand TrueVisions South Korea Skylife Nepal Dish Home Pacific Australia Austar Foxtel SelecTV UBI World TV Australia TV PLUS Europe Euro1080 Albania Digit-Alb Austria Premiere ORF Belgium TV Vlaanderen Digitaal Belgium Satellite Services Bulgaria SatelliteBG Bulsatcom Vivacom Croatia Digi TV SEEMORE Cyprus NOVA Cyprus Czech Republic SkyLink CSLink Digi TV UPC Direct Denmark Canal Digital Viasat France ABSat CanalSat TPS Finland Canal Digital Viasat Georgia MagtiCom Germany Sky Deutschland Greece NOVA Greece Hungary Digi TV UPC Direct T-home Hello HD Ireland Sky Saorsat Italy Sky Italia Netherlands CanalDigitaal Norway Canal Digital Viasat Poland Cyfrowy Polsat nc+ Portugal ZON TV Cabo MEO Satélite Romania Orange TV Digi TV Dolce Focus Sat Russia Kosmos TV NTV Plus Orion Express RIKOR TV Russian TV Time Tricolor TV Sibir NTV Plus Vostok Tricolor TV Serbia Digi TV TotalTV Slovakia Digi TV Magio Sat Skylink CS Link UPC Direct Spain Digital+ Sweden Canal Digital Viasat Switzerland Satellite Media Switzerland GLOBCOS Switzerland Turkey Digiturk D-Smart United Kingdom Sky Freesat iSat LTD Ukraine NTV Plus Ukraine Viasat Ukraine ВОЛЯ (Cable) Максимум ТВ (MITRIS) Xtra TV North America Canada Bell TV Shaw Direct Spiritcast Glorystar Telus TV United States of America Pittsburgh International Telecommunications DirecTV DISH Network Glorystar Spiritcast Sky Angel GlobeCast World TV Home2US Latin America Argentina DirecTV Antina Bolivia Tuves HD Brazil SKY Brasil Vivo TV Claro TV Oi TV GVT TV Colombia Telefónica TV Digital DirecTV Chile Claro TV Movistar TV Hogar DirecTV Tuves HD Ecuador DirecTV Peru Cable Mágico Satelital DirecTV Latin America Tuves HD Paraguay Tuves HD Uruguay DirecTV Venezuela DirecTV Movistar Venezuela Mexico SKY México Dish México Cablevisión México HD Television.svg This television-related li

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Digital Satellite Service is the assumed initialism expansion of the DSS digital satellite television transmission system used by DirecTV. Only when digital transmission was introduced did direct broadcast satellite (DBS) television become popular in North America, which has led to both DBS and DSS being used interchangeably to refer to all three commonplace digital transmission formats - DSS, DVB-S and 4DTV. Analog DBS services however existed prior to DirecTV and were still operational in continental Europe until April 2012.[1] At the time of DirecTV's launch in 1994, the DVB-S digital satellite system in use in the majority of the world had not yet been standardised, the Thomson developed DSS system was used instead. While functionally similar in DVB-S - MPEG 2 video, MPEG-1 Layer II or AC3 audio, QPSK modulation, and identical error correction (Reed-Solomon coding and Viterbi[disambiguation needed] forward error correction), the transport stream and information tables are entirely different from those of DVB. Also unlike DVB, all DSS receivers are proprietary DirecTV reception units. DirecTV is now using a modified version of DVB-S2, the latest version of the DVB-S protocol, for HDTV services off the SPACEWAY-1, SPACEWAY-2, DirecTV-10 and DirecTV-11[2] satellites, however huge numbers of DSS encoded channels still remain. The ACM modulation scheme used by DirecTV prevents regular DVB-S2 demodulators from receiving the signal although the data carried is regular MPEG-4 Transport Stream. See also[edit source | edit] * direct broadcast satellite References[edit source | edit] 1. ^ "AnalogueSat". Retrieved 2013-05-25. 2. ^ http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=324646 External links[edit source | edit] * DSS, the "Other Other" MPEG-2 system Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_Satellite_Service&oldid=556716023" Categories: * Satellite television * Digital television Hidden categories: * Articles with links needing disambiguation from January 2012 Navigation menu Personal tools * Create account * Log in Namespaces * Article * Talk Variants Views * Read * Edit source * Edit * View history Actions Search Search Navigation * Main page * Contents * Featured content * Current events * Random article * Donate to Wikipedia Interaction * Help * About Wikipedia * Community portal * Recent changes * Contact page Toolbox * What links here * Related changes * Upload file * Special pages * Permanent link * Page information * Data item * Cite this page Print/export * Create a book * Download as PDF * Printable version Languages * Edit links * This page was last modified on 25 May 2013 at 11:39. * Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the

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Nigeria to partner EU, UNESCO to localize solar technology – Minister

Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Ita  Bassey Okon Ewa has said that the Federal Government through its research agency, SHEDA Science and Technology Complex, Abuja has concluded plans to partner the European Union and United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO to enable Nigeria domesticate solar technology in the country.

This he said is part of the ministry’s dream projects to compliment federal government’s effort to ensure steady power supply in the country in line with the realization of the Vision 20 2020 age4nda.

The minister who disclosed this during his facility tour visit at the SHEDA complex in Abuja, expressed satisfaction with the quality of scientific research and achievements recorded by indigenous scientists at the complex, especially in the area of solar energy and agricultural implantation said the issue of power in the country had become very crucial  and believe that Nigeria cannot drive the Vision 20 2020 dream without technology.

He said Nigeria can make breakthroughs if  local scientists are given the right support to commercialise their products and services and also make them available for export.

‘‘We are looking at a situation where we can engage some of the international bodies like European Union, UNESCO to come and partner and drive solar technology here in SHEDA Science and Technology complex. We believe that we cannot drive the Vision 20-2020 dream without technology. Once we have this crucial issue of power,  which is very crucial to technology, the first way out is how to overcome that problem. Once that is captured, power will be an integral part of that drive.

‘‘What we have seen here on ground are seasoned scientists who by their own respects have developed capacities in terms of knowledge in areas of solar technology,  microscopy which is very essential areas of inorganic diets and others.  We have also seen prototypes of solar technology here, in which people are having indebt studies of how solar intensity could be captured.   Ones the solar intensity focusing has been fully developed, that will actually give us a vantage point to capture solar intensity from the sun,’’ he said.

While extolling the works of Nigeria scientists at the complex, the minister promised to support the organization in the area of product processing lines and development  to produce them in  commercialize quantity that would serve the entire Nigerian populace.

‘‘I believe we have the infrastructure on ground but we are limited to the fact that it may not be up to a point it could be commercialised. Commercialization will come in where we look at the processing line and develop products that can actually can serve the Nigerian populace,’’ he said.

Also speaking, Director-General of the agency, Professor Sunday Thomas said the complex is driven by the zeal to domesticate research and industrialize Nigeria in the areas of solar energy and information technology. He noted  that energy had become very important for any technological development, which informed the effort of SHESTCO to domesticate power through agricultural implantation and solar energy development.

‘‘Energy is very important for any technological development. The complex is looking at other areas that affect the overall development in our country; you saw the advanced technology lab in which the culture can be greatly enhanced through agricultural implantation. There are also activities leading to novel drugs which is being tested and development for treatment of cancer because healthy bodies are required for serious economic development in any nation,’’ he said.

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