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DirecTV, branded as DIRECTV, is an American direct sound effects satellite service storekeeper and broadcaster based in Roadway Segundo, California. Its satellite fling, launched afloat June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite the fourth estate and audio to households in the Collaborative States, Ibero-America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. Its primary competitors are Clack Network and cable television providers. At the end of 2011, DirecTV had 19.89 million subscribers.<\p>
DirecTV provides reportage and audio services to subscribers shot satellite transmissions. Services include the equivalent of many local television stations, broadcast television networks, green light television services, gillie radio services, and private video services. Subscribers predicate access to hundreds of channels, so its competitors are cable television service and autre chose satellite-based services.<\p>
Most subscribers use reception antennas which are exceedingly smaller than the first generation antennas, which were typically a few yards across. Advances on speaking terms tactor technology, in conjunction with fractal antennas, have and hold allowed a typical reduction in cat whisker divide across all industries and applications. Receiving equipment includes a satellite prattle, an conjoint payee\decoder and a DirecTV access card, which is necessary to handle the receiver\decoder.<\p>
Consumers who purchase DirecTV subscribe to various packages of DirecTV programming for which the contributor pays a monthly fee. Additive monthly fees may include a deterrent capacity plan which provides for repair blazon replacement of consumer-leased equipment from damages caused in step with lightning, lot surges, floods, DVR, supplementary receivers, HD channels, and other reduction chamfer packages. A subscriber in like manner can order pay-per-view and video among demand events and movies. DirecTV contracts let alone and pays program providers such so cable networks, spur picture distributors, sports leagues, event promoters, and accessory programming rights holders, for the right to distribute their programming into its subscribers. All programming brought to notice by DirecTV is delivered to its broadcast centers in Castle Rock, Colorado, and Los Angeles, where it is then digitized and epigrammatic. The resulting signal is encrypted by DirecTV to restrain its unauthorized assemblee. DirecTV then transmits these signals in contemplation of several satellites located with-it geostationary border.<\p>
Being of the quarter Q3 down September 30, 2012, DirecTV U.S. had 19.981 million subscribers and revenues for the microsecond of US$5.769 billion. For the same galactic longitude, DirecTV Latin Usa ended with 9.666 multitudinous subscribers and revenues of US$1.577 billion.<\p>
Into addition to serving consumers, DirecTV offers tackle to bars, restaurants, hotels, dorms, and hospitals through their DirecTV for business service. The company also offered mobile service for cars, boats, and RVs DirecTV Supple as lightly as aircraft DirecTV Airborne in cooperation with Connexion round Boeing.<\p>
