It will be a revenue model similar to compact discs or MPEG-2, the standard for digital satellite communications.
In Britain, BSkyB , getting ready for the launch of its 200-channel digital satellite services, ordered 1m decoder boxes.
In America, where digital satellite television is well-established, one of the providers is shortly to offer programming in Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, Ukrainian and Hindi.
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In addition, the threat to cable systems from digital satellite broadcasters has receded in America (partly because Mr Murdoch has bowed out of the satellite business there).
Members of all parties in parliament agree that both need to change in the light of the explosion of digital and satellite media.
All five terrestrial channels - BBC One and Two, ITV, Channel Four and Channel Five - have made the shortlist as well as six digital or satellite channels.
In addition to BBC One's offering, digital , satellite and cable viewers can follow uninterrupted coverage of both the men's and women's races through the BBC interactive service.
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And about 40% more will be able to view the digital signal through a digital cable or satellite set-top box on an analog TV they already own.
The regulatory structure was already creaking before New Labour entered office, struggling to deal with such complex gatekeeper issues as fair access for broadcasters to digital cable and satellite systems.
Press the green button with the little flag and you'll be propelled into a world of expensive sophisticated dual core processors, pricey aluminum enclosures with vacuum fluorescent displays, redundant functionality and slowly evolving integration with digital cable and satellite.
The FCC is even asking if radio should still be considered a discrete market, in which ownership restrictions are evaluated as if consumers didn't have access to the Internet, digital cable and satellite, wireless Palm handhelds and the myriad other noisy forms of media that intrude on their daily existence.
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The big hope was that it would come from digital television distributed by satellite.
With the growth of cable, satellite and digital media, the number both of media outlets and of owners has increased almost everywhere in America.
With cable, satellite and digital all bidding to get their piece.
The transmission from the Lyttelton theatre on the south bank of the Thames can be received in cinemas that have a digital projector and a satellite dish.
It stuffs a hard drive that can store music, photos and video into a box with a DVD player, Internet access and a satellite or digital cable decoder.
Murdoch sells a competing digital recorder to his satellite customers.
Since Mr Baker was last in charge of Sky One there has been a proliferation of satellite, digital and cable entertainment channels, including BBC Three, Channel 4's E4 and ITV2.
The hype declared this: When the kinks are worked out, theaters will be able to download movies to hard drives from DVD-ROMs or digital files received via satellite or fiber-optic lines.
But without a digital TV tuner, or a cable or satellite set-top box that can convert a digital signal, consumers won't get any TV at all by 2009.
Despite this, the main radio stations will still be broadcast on FM and medium wave as usual while the digital stations - such as 1 Extra and BBC7 - will still be available on satellite, cable, through digital radios and online.
In September 1991, the Internet, satellite radio, digital downloads, iPods and tablets weren't factors.
New, more highbrow channels, whether from Sky Italia's satellite platform or digital terrestrial channels, are slowly fragmenting Mediaset's audience.
All three perform the same basic function -- they let you stream TV from your cable box (digital or analog), satellite receiver, or DVR to a computer or mobile device -- it's just that each is aimed at different segments of the market.
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