Tech insights

Direct-To-Home (DTH) uses some advanced technologies to deliver entertainment to your home directly. Learning about all these technologies is quite daunting. Consequently, most people dread it and happy to treat it as a black-box. However, thanks to advanced technologies and equipment, you don't have to be an expert in setting this up. Hope this guide will help you understand it better and fix small problems on your own rather than depend on call-center executives of your provider. Also, Media reporters use DVB-S technology to stream LIVE feeds to media houses where the feed is recorded and packaged as a TV program. This means one can watch the Live event sans commercials using a STB if it's unencrypted!! Signals, satellites and encryption Initially, TV transmission was Analog . Hence ALL the TVs have built-in analog tuners. However, analog transmission has limited bandwidth which is not sufficient to transmit ever increasing number of channels. This paved the way for Di...

Today, Television (TV) is the most predominant mode of entertainment which is found in almost all homes. While non-linear form of entertainment like Youtube is increasing in adoption, TV holds it's spot for live entertainment and news. More so, with Satellite Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-S), it's possible to enjoy the same programs sitting anywhere in the world. But why on Computer? There are many good reasons for watching TV on Computer which I'm listing below. If you have different reasons, let me know via comments. I'm creating a unified interface  for controlling all electrical devices at home. When I show above demo video, the first question people ask me is "Can I change the TV channels?" IoT is incomplete without the ability to control your TV remotely and automatically record your favourite programs. Did you know you could watch or record multiple channels (almost 20) on a tuned frequency using a single tuner and multiple displays inclu...