Digital Satellite System

It uses a digital satellite system and movies on disks.

At its start, the Digital Satellite System will offer only 75 video channels.

And in a more positive light, so does the success of the digital satellite system and its pizza-size receiving dish.

No wonder the digital satellite system has gotten off to the fastest start of any product in the history of consumer electronics.

Technically, it has the potential to deliver a better picture than either the laser disk or the digital satellite system, with superior sound to boot.

The Digital Satellite System came about by cleverly mixing several new technologies.

By contrast, the new Digital Satellite System dish - 18 inches in diameter - is unobtrusive.

The Digital Satellite System is an obvious boon to the roughly 12 million American households beyond the reach of cable.

The Digital Satellite System control box atop the television set will relay the order via the viewer's telephone to a central station in Colorado.

Sparklies do not occur on digital satellite systems; similar problems with digital signals cause MPEG artifacts.

At least in the near term, the most powerful influence of digital technology on video is likely to remain with the Digital Satellite System (DSS).

That leads into another one-page ad that promotes Sony's newer products, like the Digital Satellite System or WebTV.

Digital Satellite Source, an Internet-based retailer of discounted digital satellite systems, awarded its new account to Richards Group in Dallas.

For viewers who receive their signal by national digital satellite systems, DirecTV offers three high-definition channels, and EchoStar's Dish Network carries five.

This service, also known as the Digital Satellite System, not only provides images and sound that are close to laser disk quality but also upward of 100 channels, including pay TV.

Both the JPEG and MPEG systems, common today in digital cameras and digital satellite systems, model a picture as a combination of several cosine waves.

Mr. Magid predicted that Thomson's DSS digital satellite system, which allows users to receive televison channels through an 18-inch satellite dish, will sell well in rural America.

The Genius Theater's sound system, CD-ROM player, modem and connections for telephone line, digital satellite system, cable and standard antenna are housed in an unthreatening maple cabinet.

There are other compelling attractions to the digital satellite system: not only does the picture rival that of the laser disk, but the sound also offers CD quality if you listen through your hi-fi system.

Here are a few of the products that generated excitement at the show: Digital Satellite Getting a lot of attention this year was RCA's digital satellite system, which lets consumers get 150 television channels.

The antenna unit, the Digital Satellite System, is manufactured by Thomson Consumer Electronics under the RCA and General Electric brand names and the Sony Electronics Corporation.

Current owners of the Digital Satellite System will be able to upgrade with a $599 add-on product that will allow them to receive high-speed Internet access 14 times as fast as with a standard telephone line.

In 1981, Hubbard Broadcasting started U.S. Satellite Broadcasting (USSB), and later was instrumental in the development and launching of the first digital satellite system for television in 1994.

Hughes/DirecTV then turned to Thomson Consumer Electronics (under the RCA brand) to develop the digital satellite system for the service that would be capable of receiving 175 channels on a small 18-inch dish.

Backed by the technical and financial clout of General Motors and RCA, the Digital Satellite System will give Americans their first taste of the abundant information technology envisioned by the Clinton Administration.