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The measure of sensitivity of a satellite TV system receiver measured in decibels (dB).

LCD technology where each pixel has its own transistor switch. This results in sharper looking colours

A splitter is a passive device (one with no active electronic components) which distributes a television signal carried on a cable in two or more paths and sends it to a number of receivers simultaneously.

The dish is parabolic reflector and serves as a passive amplifier - the first and most important stage of amplification. The signal from the satellite that hits the dish is reflected to LNB at the focal point, about 12 inches in front of the dish.

Better quality TV's generally have an S-Video input jack. All the new Dish Network receivers have an S-Video output. This will provide the highest quality picture.

A superior way of viewing video images compared with the traditional interlaced method. With interlacing, the two fields of each video frame(the odd and even horizontal lines) are shown one after another. With progressive scanning all of the horizontal lines of the frame are displayed in one go. The benefits are lack of 'flicker' and jagg [..]

Allows you to set a password to control access to programming based on channel, rating, or content.

Pixelization occurs due to errors in decoding the MPEG bit stream where areas or patches of color appear instead of the higher resolution image. It might be described as the picture "breaking up". The patches of blocks appear and disappear, and can happen anywhere on the screen but usually are "part" of the image [..]

The television system used in most European Countries.