DIRECTV To Use CSS technology To deliver HD programming
DIRECTV has announced that they are implementing Entropic Communications’ Channel Stacking Switch technology to broadcast HD programming. This technology will be incorporated in DIRECT TV’s SWM-ODU dish units. The dish unit delivers the full suite of DIRECTV’s high-definition programming directly to all of the consumer’s set-top boxes in the home via a single wire. Additional benefits of CSS technology include greater customer acceptance due to improved aesthetics, shorter installation times, decreased customer installation wait time, and the ability to easily support upgrades where the consumer can add additional STBs by plugging them in with no new wires or truck rolls needed. Entropic’s core CSS technology supports up to 12 tuners and enables the simultaneous reception of multiple channels from multiple satellites over a single wire.