The Impact of Satellite TV on Home Entertainment Systems
The arrival and development of satellite TV has had a major impact on home entertainment systems
, inspiring a massive overhaul in the quality of home audio and visual technology. Probably the biggest single improvement is the arrival of the flat screen TV. Plasma and LCD televisions have become hugely successful and extremely popular with over 400m being sold worldwide! Indeed television manufacturers have invested vast somes of money into develop ever better and more presentable televisions. Televisions which are now able to replicate cinema quality audio and visuals. With satellite channels now providing movies on demand the home cinema is now also growing in popularity. However some areas of the world are now banning the sale of plasma screens because of their high energy usage in comparison to LCD televisions. This move should result in television manufacturers becoming even more concious of the importance of how environmentally safely their television models are. A large ban on a specific type of television could extremely damaging for pirticular elecrical manufacturers. Not only has satellite television inspired the development of better picture quality it has also seen a massive improvement in audio quality with inbuilt speakers becoming not incredibly thin but also wireless. Yes, wireless speakers have developed so much that now many people are able to install affordable surround sound systems within their homes. So not only do satellite TV viewers have access to on demand movies which can be viewed on high quality environmentally friendly televisions they can also listen to the movie as if they were in the middle of the action! Satellite television is notably more popular because of its ability to stream an almost limitless number of channels which has also seen a massive divergence of content and advertising which companies now able to target specific niches and customer groups. Gone are the days when tens of millions of people watched the same television channel at the same time. People veiwing time is now scattered across a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from extreme sport through live news. What stands next is expected to be even more convergence with 'cloud computing' enabling us to merge the content we prefer to access on the Internet with our televisions!
The Impact of Satellite TV on Home Entertainment Systems