Cable or satellite TV by the antenna. What is better than Pay TV?

 What are the differences between the main TV transmission systems in Brazil, such as the analog and digital systems using satellite dishes or even via cable? See an overview. Among the various services we can have at home, one of the most requested is pay TV. For a long time, the reception of TV signals in Brazil was made by sound waves that were transmitted by antennas of the stations themselves and received by small antennas, the so-called fish scales in homes. This type of service is known as analog TV and the channels that could be captured were those with open signals such as Globo, SBT, Record, Band, Rede TV, Cultura, and others.

satellite dish

Then the new wave was the satellite dishes, the big ones, which actually only improved the signal quality and expanded a little a large number of channels, but continued only receiving open channels, such as the possibility now to include receiving other channels that did not have broadcast by its own antenna in its region, especially public channels such as TV Senado, TV Câmara, among others.

The benefits of using a TV antenna

You may have thought that TV antennas were yesterday's news, but they are still on the market and offer user benefits that cable and satellite television cannot match. They aren't for everyone, but for users who have a good supply of broadcast stations in their locality, antennas can save money and improve signal quality. You don't need to get rid of your cable or satellite service to install an antenna.



Antennas save money

Antennas are, by default, money savers because their job is to receive free TV. If you use cable or satellite service and pay a monthly local service fee to receive local channels, you can save that fee each month by canceling local service and using an antenna. You may also be interested in "Cable TV network" here Tv por Assinatura

Cable and Satellite TV

Finally, the fashion arrived in subscription systems, which is that you pay a monthly fee to receive a certain number of television channels. There are basic packages with few channels and cheaper and packages with many channels and more expensive, not counting the separate packages that you can subscribe to, such as movie channels, sports, international and others.

But pay-TV can be received in at least two ways, which is by a cable that the operator itself needs to take to your home and via satellite, where reception is done through those mini-antennas. In both cases, reception is digital and today we still have the transmission in high definition, the so-called HD, and therefore nothing changes in terms of quality and quantity of channels, as these depend on the package you purchased.

Satellite and cable TV companies have massive networks, carrying hundreds of channels to millions of customers. To serve these customers as efficiently as possible, cable and satellite TV companies use digital compression technologies to reduce the size of the TV channel. This allows more channels to fit into the signal being delivered to the customer. While satellite broadcasting also uses digital compression, there are far fewer channels in the broadcast TV signal compared to cable TV. As a result, less data is lost and the image looks clean and crisp in comparison.

Broadcast TV Antenna

Now that we have available broadcast channels and a TV that accepts a digital signal, we are ready to set up an antenna. As mentioned, it is the television that needs to be digital, not the antenna. That means any antenna will work.

Get peace of mind

Satellite subscribers know that their satellite signal can disappear during bad weather, which is a concern in areas that experience tornado warnings or winter weather. When maintaining a signal is extremely important, an antenna is one way to go.

What is the best

I have already subscribed to an antenna or satellite operator and today I subscribe to NET, which is via cable and I can say that from a practical point of view there is not much to differentiate one from the other. In the Via Satellite system, there is a reception problem on days of very bad weather, but it is rare to happen, we must also consider the difference that it only receives TV signals, while in the cable system it is possible for the same cable to receive TV, internet, and telephone.

The cable system, in turn, has the advantage described above, but its main disadvantage is the coverage area, which is quite limited, in fact, this area is limited to cities, neighborhoods, or streets where the operator passed the cable. More distant neighborhoods, small towns, or more remote locations are generally not served by the cable system and then the satellite system is the only alternative.

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