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Article: TV down and digitized.(digital satellite systems for yachts)
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- Yachting
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Bonnier Corporation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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IMAGINE BEING ABLE TO VIEW THE BEST OF NATIONAL sports, movies, business and financial news, and listening to CD-quality music, all while anchored in a vacation port, over quiet fishing grounds, or even under way. All you have to do is install a digital satellite system (DSS). This state-of-the-art broadcast method has been around for about a year. Meant to supplant cable TV, DSS uses powerful satellites to beam digitized broadcasts directly to you via tiny receiving dishes. Because the signal is digital, reception is laser-sharp, sound is laser-clear.
DSS began in late 1993 with the launch of a Hughes high-power direct-broadcast satellite (DBS). It has since been ...