Editing Television receive-only (section)

{{Short description|Reception of satellite television from FSS-type satellites}}
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'''Television receive-only''' ('''TVRO''') is a term used chiefly in [[North America]], [[South America]] to refer to the reception of [[satellite television]] from [[Fixed Service Satellite|FSS]]-type satellites, generally on [[C band (IEEE)|C-band]] analog; [[free-to-air]] and unconnected to a commercial [[Direct broadcast satellite|DBS]] provider. TVRO was the main means of consumer satellite reception in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] until the mid-1990s with the arrival of [[direct-broadcast satellite television]] services such as [[PrimeStar]], [[United States Satellite Broadcasting|USSB]], [[Bell Satellite TV]], [[DirecTV]], [[Dish Network]], [[Sky Digital (UK & Ireland)|Sky TV]] that transmit K<sub>u</sub> signals. While these services are at least theoretically based on open standards ([[DVB-S]], [[MPEG-2]], [[MPEG-4]]), the majority of services are encrypted and require proprietary decoder hardware. TVRO systems relied on feeds being transmitted unencrypted and using open standards, which heavily contrasts to DBS systems in the region.

The term is also used to refer to receiving digital television "[[backhaul (broadcasting)|backhaul]]" feeds from FSS-type satellites. Reception of free-to-air satellite signals, generally [[Ku band|K<sub>u</sub> band]] [[Digital Video Broadcasting]], for home viewing is still common in [[Europe]] and [[India]], although the TVRO nomenclature was never used there.{{cn|date=October 2024}} Free-to-air satellite signals are also very common in the [[People's Republic of China]], as many rural locations cannot receive [[cable television]] and solely rely on satellites to deliver television signals to individual homes.{{cn|date=October 2024}}