1.What is Free-To-Air ?
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2.What equipment is necessary to receive FTA?
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3.What types of channels are available with FTA?
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4.Who pays for FTA channels?
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5. Will I be able to install FTA myself?
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6.OK, I bought this equipment, Now How Do I Set It Up?
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7.Where can I go to learn more about FTA Satellite reception? ?
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8.How to point a satellite dish?
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9.What are Ku Band and C Band frequencies? How do they differ?
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10.I would like to know the price of a Star track product?
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11.I don't know about the receivers. What's different between FTA and CI?
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12.Is the Motorised DiSEqC or USALS function available on my receiver ?
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13.What is HDTV?
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14.Why HDTV?
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15.Difference between HD Ready and Full HD?
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| 1.What is Free-To-Air ? |
| Free-to-air channels are those channels that are transmitted without encryption, so that any FTA receiver can display them on your television to watch. Most FTA channels are digitally compressed with the MPEG-2/DVB standard, so modern FTA receivers are able to decode that standard. |
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| 2.What equipment is necessary to receive FTA? |
| A FTA receiver, a dish of sufficient size, a Low-Noise Block Filter (LNBF), and the cables to connect them are needed in order to receive FTA. For most FTA channels (those using Ku-band), a 30-inch dish is necessary. Only a few FTA channels are available using smaller, 18-inch dishes. There are even more channels available with a C-band (6-foot) dish, but we will not go over them here. |
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| 3.What types of channels are available with FTA? |
| A wide variety of channels are available, including broadcast channels, public interest channels, and foreign language programming. New channels come and go all the time. For the complete FTA satellite or channel list, please visit lyngsat.com. |
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| 4.Who pays for FTA channels? |
| The broadcasters pay for the FTA channels. Some are using the satellite to send their signal to cable companies. Some foreign countries subsidize television for their citizens living in North America. You can't count on anything in particular being there, but you can always count on something being there. |
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| 5. Will I be able to install FTA myself? |
| Free-To-Air satellite equipment is not plug-and-play. You absolutely need to have knowledge about setting up this equipment or know someone who does. |
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| 6.OK, I bought this equipment, Now How Do I Set It Up? |
| If you are not familiar with setting up your dish, you will need to contact an installer to do it for you. While we do not provide these services, finding a dish installer locally is usually easy, depending on your location. You can visit local service classifieds such as FTAInstall.com, or even look in your telephone book or local newspaper for dish installers |
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| 7.Where can I go to learn more about FTA Satellite reception? ? |
| There are many FTA SATELLITE FORUM sites on the internet that have all of the information that you could ever need. Every question you can think of has already been answered in these forums. Most of these forums are free. We suggest you do a GOOGLE SEARCH for FTA Satellite Forum Sites and do plenty of research. |
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| 8.How to point a satellite dish? |
| Visit DishPointer.com to learn how to install or aim a satellite dish. |
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| 9.What are Ku Band and C Band frequencies? How do they differ? |
| Most Free To Air satellite content is broadcast on either C Band or Ku Band. C Band is the original frequency allocation for communications satellites. C Band uses 3.7 to 4.2Ghz for uplink; 5.9-6.4Ghz for downlink. C band requires a large dish, usually 6 feet in diameter. C band dishes vary between 3 feet and 9 feet in diameter, depending upon signal strength. The higher frequencies of Ku Band are more vulnerable to signal quality problems caused by rainfade than C Band satellite frequencies. The Ku Band uplink uses frequencies from 14 to 14.5GHz; the downlink uses frequencies between 11.7 and 12.7GHz. Ku Band dishes can be much smaller than C Band dishes. Ku Band dishes vary from 2 feet to 5 feet in diameter. Ku Band satellites typically transmit with far more power than C Band satellites. At one time, most Free To Air satellite programming was transmitted via C Band, but FTA programming has now migrated primarily to Ku Band. |
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| 10.I would like to know the price of a Star track product? |
| Star Track products are distributed through a network of distributors and dealers Contact sales@startrackuae.net for the distributor/dealer nearest to your location. |
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| 11.I don't know about the receivers. What's different between FTA and CI? |
| CI stands for Common Interface. It is a standard, agreed to by manufacturers of satellite receivers, to interface a digital receiver to a Conditional Access Module (CAM), where the purpose of the CAM is to decipher encrypted signals. There are various Conditional Access Systems and therefore different CAMs, such as Viaccess, Irdeto, Cryptoworks, Nagravision, Mediaguard, Conax... To view Pay-TV contents |
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| 12.Is the Motorised DiSEqC or USALS function available on my receiver ? |
| The Motorised DiSEqC and USALS function is available on star track receivers |
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| 13.What is HDTV? |
| HDTV stands for High Definition TeleVision. To give you an idea what the difference between HDTV and SDTV (current conventional TV): SDTV broadcasts with a resolution of 720 lines each with 576 pixels. In total, an SDTV screen is composed of more than 400,000 pixels (720 * 576). A full HDTV broadcasts in a resolution of 1080 pixels by 1920 pixels image. In total, a full HD signal consists of more than 2 million pixel image. A full HD television signal broadcasts in a five-fold compared to a resolution analogue PAL television signal. |
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| 14.Why HDTV? |
| Full HD resolution signal has a five-fold compared to a PAL signal. Another major benefit of HDTV is implicitly much improved detail of the colors, something that significantly contributes to the feeling of a real experience. Whether analog or digital broadcasting, there is a five-fold bandwidth to such a high quality image mode also discussion. |
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| 15.Difference between HD Ready and Full HD? |
| The difference between HD (Full HD), HD Ready the number of pixels, also known as pixels. HD has a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels more than HD Ready 1280 x 720. An HD-ready screen should meet the following minimum requirements: - At least 720 lines - Input YPbPr, HDMI / HDCP (or DVI + HDCP) A full HD display must meet the following requirements - Minimum 1080 pixels - Input YPbPr, HDMI / HDCP (or DVI + HDCP) |
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