Ongoing research and development in advanced technology is just one of the many ways Dish Network attempts to meet the needs of their customers. They provide their subscribers the latest in improved digital satellite television services. This is one of the main reasons there are over 12 million satisfied and happy subscribers. Dish Network often updates their packaging with new channels as well as improves others to maintain, as well as entice new customers, to their growing number in viewing audiences. Recent additions to the Dish Network channel packages include the Bridges television channel, Voom High Definition channel, and the soon to arrive Karaoke channel. It can be said now that Dish Network ignores no one in their line up of diverse digital satellite television programming.
A review of their current programming shows Dish Network now offers over 250 channels of digital satellite television programming with the availability of High Definition or Standard resolution giving you perfect viewing through digital format with little or no imaging being lost. The detail provided by High Definition programming is essential if you are a sports enthusiast or an avid movie fan. It allows you to see more of the surrounding area/location as the camera is pulled back from the objects being filmed, and this advanced technology has changed the way programming is produced. Accompanying sounds are more clearly audible, and you feel like you are physically present on location. In addition to the expanded channel coverage, Dish Network also provides 50 channels of Sirius music, with sports and educational programming, children’s and adult’s programming, 500 commercial-free movies each month, interactive gaming, weather and traffic updates, and international programming. Dish Network offers promotions of free equipment, including several models of Digital Video Recorders, free installation, and some services free for a limited time. Your DVR will enable you to record and store up to 100 hours of programming as well as fast forward, pause (including live programming), and playback, giving you control of replay action. All these services and more are available, and this article will inform you of recent updates to Dish Network’s diverse programming lineup.
Dish Network added Bridges TV to their multi-cultural lineup of channels providing programming relevant to the Muslim culture. There are now more than seven million Muslim Americans, giving this channel the potential of a large audience of Muslims as well as providing a greater understanding of this religion. Bridges TV is now available nationwide, and shows movies, news programs, sitcoms, and children’s programming.
Dish Network’s High Definition digital format allows superior sound and imaging. Voom, a provider of high definition programming no longer in business, sold its satellite to Dish Network to enable Dish Network to provide additional channels showing several original Voom high definition channels. This addition makes Dish Network’s High Definition programming Number One in the nation. Voom’s original channels included RUSH HD, Ultra HD, Animania HD, and others.
Dish Network has a plan to add a karaoke channel to their lineup, and this will be the nation’s first interactive channel of this type. Proposals for this channel include plans to offer a choice of two play lists containing ten songs each that will change twice a month and will differ in genre. Subscribers will be given an opportunity to experience this addition on a trial basis.
These new additions will surely enhance Dish Network’s lineup of programming available to subscribers with ongoing plans for future channel packages.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Satellite Imaging Systems Used By NASA
NASA was established more than 50 years ago and has been a world leader in studies of our home planet. In October 2005 NASA decided to share their series of the stunning 'Blue Marble' images. The satellite photos were divided into 12 calendar months and provided a detailed overview at an entire year in the life of our planet.
Each image took up 10 Gigabytes of hard disk space. To be able to understand how much 10 Gigabytes really is, you can think of that each image consists of 5000 pictures taken with a typical digital camera.
Two years later they are probably still the largest zoomable images ever seen on the Internet. Thanks to advanced zoom technology it is possible for NASA to manage and study our earth by images using any Internet connection.
During the recent years it has become possible to buy expensive products over the Internet. You can buy everything from clothes, cars to expensive furniture. Unfortunately you still have to make a decision for the product based on one or a few images - often in poor quality.
Several studies have shown that the most significant barrier in modern e-commerce is the lack of quality product images - more specific the lack of sufficient image details or resolution. Customers can't "experience and feel" the products in the same way as they were holding them.
The explanation is that high quality images take up a lot of disk space and increase the download time. It is inappropriate to let Internet users wait several seconds for a high quality image each time the user is viewing a product.
Another barrier is the increasing use of mobile devices like PDAs and mobile phones. It is still too hard making a decision for a product on a 240 x 320 pixel display on a mobile phone if the product image is 1680 x 1050 pixels.
But how can it be possible to zoom even large images like NASA's 10Gb satellite images by use of an Internet Connection while webmasters are struggling to limit sizes of their web images?
By combining and re-scaling existing technologies for other purposes and goals, it has become possible to see and almost feel tiny details of any e-Commerce product in the same way as you can study every detail of even large satellite images.
E-Consultant Sonja Jacobsen explains the controversial mix of NASA technology and existing web technology "as a way to move forward in a competitive market" and "almost all e-shops will be able to present their products with zoomable pictures within 2-3 years with similar technologies".
Each image took up 10 Gigabytes of hard disk space. To be able to understand how much 10 Gigabytes really is, you can think of that each image consists of 5000 pictures taken with a typical digital camera.
Two years later they are probably still the largest zoomable images ever seen on the Internet. Thanks to advanced zoom technology it is possible for NASA to manage and study our earth by images using any Internet connection.
During the recent years it has become possible to buy expensive products over the Internet. You can buy everything from clothes, cars to expensive furniture. Unfortunately you still have to make a decision for the product based on one or a few images - often in poor quality.
Several studies have shown that the most significant barrier in modern e-commerce is the lack of quality product images - more specific the lack of sufficient image details or resolution. Customers can't "experience and feel" the products in the same way as they were holding them.
The explanation is that high quality images take up a lot of disk space and increase the download time. It is inappropriate to let Internet users wait several seconds for a high quality image each time the user is viewing a product.
Another barrier is the increasing use of mobile devices like PDAs and mobile phones. It is still too hard making a decision for a product on a 240 x 320 pixel display on a mobile phone if the product image is 1680 x 1050 pixels.
But how can it be possible to zoom even large images like NASA's 10Gb satellite images by use of an Internet Connection while webmasters are struggling to limit sizes of their web images?
By combining and re-scaling existing technologies for other purposes and goals, it has become possible to see and almost feel tiny details of any e-Commerce product in the same way as you can study every detail of even large satellite images.
E-Consultant Sonja Jacobsen explains the controversial mix of NASA technology and existing web technology "as a way to move forward in a competitive market" and "almost all e-shops will be able to present their products with zoomable pictures within 2-3 years with similar technologies".
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