You can also listen to internet radio via a customized vTuner radio station database or attach an optional Connect-and-Play satellite antenna for XM radio goodness.
Gogo also recently announced that it will partner with AeroSat to deliver the satellite antenna, radome, antenna control and modem unit and high power transceiver to Gogo.
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One more product pick we recently came across that can enable die-hard football fans to catch multiple games on the go is the Dish Network Tailgater Portable Satellite Antenna and ViP 211k receiver.
ViaSat also offers design capabilities and a number of complementary products including monolithic microwave integrated circuits and modules, DVB-S2 satellite communication components, video data link systems, data acceleration and compression, and mobile satellite antenna systems.
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Noji's peek into China comes from 23, 000 heavy-duty vehicles spread across the nation's vastness, each fitted with an antenna that via satellite link tells Komatsu where it is and what it's doing.
If viewers live outside those markets and can't get their local stations using an old-fashioned tv antenna, the satellite companies are legally allowed to sell them feeds from New York or Los Angeles.
The Nielsen Company has monitored TV audiences since 1950, but soon it will expand that definition from solely households with antenna, cable or satellite access, but also those that have dropped those options but still get video over the internet.
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With this technology, the motion of the satellite is used to simulate the large antenna needed to take high-resolution images.
The fact is that HD via ATSC only works in applications where the antenna is stationary, which means that cable or satellite work just as well, but of course aren't free.
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Although anyone with an antenna can pick up a station's signals for free, cable and satellite companies typically pay stations and networks for the right to distribute their programming to subscribers.
Most providers carry both an analog version and the HD Version, and because there are still some cable and satellite providers that don't carry Fox HD, you may need to result to putting up an OTA antenna.
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