Orbit Satellite Television and Radio Network was the world’s first fully digital, multi-channel, multi-lingual, pay television service, providing perfect sound and picture quality at all times. With digital technology able to support a total of 39 television and 20 radio channels, Orbit’s premium package of television and radio services offers an unrivalled variety of choices for even the most demanding television viewers and radio listeners. Orbit was created with a sole purpose in mind: to provide a vast selection of world-class entertainment and information in English, Arabic to an audience hungry for greater programme diversity. A digital system is one that uses numbers, especially binary numbers, for input, processing, transmission, storage, or display, rather than a continuous spectrum of values (an analog system) or non-numeric symbols such as letters or icons. ... Pay television, or pay-TV, usually refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by both analogue and digital cable and satellite, but also increasingly by digital terrestrial methods. ... Arabic can mean: From or related to Arabia From or related to the Arabs The Arabic language; see also Arabic grammar The Arabic alphabet, used for expressing the languages of Arabic, Persian, Malay ( Jawi), Kurdish, Panjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu, among others. ...

Orbit uses Nagravision MediaGuard 2 encryption conditional access technology and Humax DVB digital satellite Integrated Receiver Decoders. Orbit broadcasts to the Middle East and North Africa. Its direct competitor in the region is Showtime Arabia. // Nagravision Nagravision is a company which develops conditional access control for Cable and Satellite TV systems. ... In cryptography, encryption is the process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge. ... Conditional access (CA) is the protection of content by requiring certain criteria to be met before granting access to the content. ... Humax is an electronics company. ... DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 270 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... North Africa is a region generally considered to include: Algeria Egypt Libya Mauritania Morocco Sudan Tunisia Western Sahara The Azores, Canary Islands, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Madeira are sometimes considered to be a part of North Africa. ...

The Orbit Satellite Television and Radio Network package is available via DTH satellites Arabsat 2D/3A located at at 26.0°E. A Satellite dish antenna A satellite dish is a type of parabolic reflector antenna designed with the specific purpose of transmitting signals to and/or receiving from satellites. ... For other uses, please see Satellite (disambiguation) A satellite is an object that orbits another object (known as its primary). ... Arabsat is a satellite built by Aerospatiale. ...

See also

• Orbit Online Services
• Showtime Arabia

External links

• Orbit Satellite Television and Radio Network Corporate Website
• Orbit Online Services
• Orbit Satellite Television and Radio Network package
• Nagra France
• Humax
• Arabsat (Arab Satellite Communications Organization)
• Showtime Arabia