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TELE
satellite
TELE-satellite
International
The World’s Largest
Digital TV Trade Magazine
since 1981
Alexander Wiese
Publisher
alex@TELE-satellite.com
HQ in Munich, Germany
Address
TELE-satellite International, PO Box 1234, 85766 Munich-Ufg, GERMANY/EUROPE
Editor-in-Chief
Alexander Wiese, alex@TELE-satellite.com
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TELE-satellite Medien GmbH, Aschheimer Weg 19, 85774 Unterfoehring,
GERMANY/EUROPE
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© 2012 by TELE-satellite
ISSN
1435-7003
TELE-satellite was established in 1981 and today is the oldest, largest and most-read digital tv trade
magazine in the world. TELE-satellite is seen by more than 350,000 digital tv professionals around the
world and is available both in printed form and online.
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Dear Readers,
Everything is getting smaller and more compact. In this
issue we’re introducing two new entries into the mini
receiver class: receivers that are so small you can easily
hide them behind your TV yet they come without any
loss in user-friendliness or functionality. An additional
chapter in this trend towards miniaturization can be
seen in another way in those larger “true” receivers:
they are becoming ever more complex and offer ever
increasing possibilities.
Examples of these complex receivers are two additional
models that we are introducing in this issue of TELE-
satellite. Receivers that you can ideally use to receive
TV channels via the Internet or that can be consistently
improved with software updates.
Receivers are becoming more and more boxes that can
do it all - it only makes sense: as a TV viewer you
don’t want to be concerned with how the TV channels
get to your TV’s screen. The result is: receivers should
be able to receive all the different variants, whether
it’s transmissions via satellite, via cable, terrestrially
or through the Internet. And, of course, they should be
able to record all of these programs (PVR).
The big challenge for receiver manufacturers is to do
all of this and yet make their receivers easier to use.
TV viewers still have to decide whether they want to
watch TV via satellite or through the Internet; the user
menus in the receivers are totally different for satellite
TV channels and Internet TV channels.
Logically, from a TV viewers point of view, he should
be able to put whatever channel he wants in each and
every receiver channel memory location; it shouldn’t
matter if the TV channel is received via satellite, via a
terrestrial antenna, via the cable connection or over the
Internet.
We are only at the early stages of this integration. The
different distribution methods still require different user
interfaces. This is going to change. The miniaturization
will bring together the different methods into one
receiver and as a result the operation of the receiver
will also become unified.
What’s true in the real world for the hardware is also
true in the virtual world with the software.
Alexander Wiese
Editor-in-Chief TELE-satellite International