Betekenis van:
satellite tv
satellite tv
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- a television system in which the signal is transmitted to an orbiting satellite that receives the signal and amplifies it and transmits it back to earth
Synoniemen
Hyperoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- switch to digital satellite TV, with or without purchasing pay-TV services;
- access to ICT devices at home: TV (to be reported separately: satellite dish, cable TV, digital TV)
- Sky Italia is a pay-TV company that broadcasts via satellite, owned by News Corporation.
- The network operators in the satellite TV sector are not, however, integrated with the broadcasters.
- SES/ASTRA is the largest satellite operator in Germany and publishes, every year, the German Satellite Monitor on the importance of the different TV transmission platforms.
- Penetration of satellite TV is limited — around 16 % of households (4,8 million) had a parabolic antenna in June 2005.
- Pay-TV on the terrestrial, cable and satellite platforms are paying options that provide premium content to viewers.
- At present, before the transaction, the Vivendi group distributes pay TV in France direct by satellite and by terrestrial transmission.
- In December 2005, there were some 4,8 million satellite TV viewers in Italy but only 3,5 million subscribers to Sky.
- The examples of satellite operators, or of one of the complainants, Sky TV, are very clear in this respect.
- As has already been stated, the TV market was once characterised by mass viewing of free-to-air TV in analogue terrestrial mode and by the offer of satellite pay-TV.
- Even if the pay-TV digital terrestrial offer is for the moment not comparable with the pay-TV offer available on satellite, either in terms of type of service (pay-per-view vs. monthly subscriptions) or in terms of economic size (satellite TV collected almost 95 % of revenues from subscribers in 2005), there is a certain degree of substitutability between the two.
- Sky Italia is a satellite pay-TV and has a quasi-monopolistic position on the Italian market for pay-TV satellite broadcasting, but, as has already been pointed out, it cannot operate in Italy as a terrestrial network operator or a terrestrial pay-TV operator.
- However, when this decision is published, the two types of digital TV on offer — terrestrial and satellite — are both expected to have achieved a similar number of viewers (5 million viewers for satellite and 4 million viewers for digital terrestrial).
- In December 2005, there were some 4,8 million satellite TV viewers in Italy but only 3,5 million subscribers to Sky. The remaining 1,3 million viewers were therefore interested in the free-to-air offer available on satellite.