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search   Direct-broadcast satellite television comes to the
general public in two distinct flavors—analog and digital. This
necessitates either having an analog satellite receiver or a
digital satellite receiver. Analog satellite television is being
replaced by digital satellite television and the latter is
becoming available in a better quality known as high-definition
television.   The first satellite television signal was relayed
from Europe to the Telstar satellite over North America in 1962.
The first geosynchronous communication satellite, Syncom 2, was
launched in 1963. The world's first commercial communication
satellite, called Intelsat I (nicknamed Early Bird), was
launched into synchronous orbit on April 6, 1965. The first
national network of satellite television, called Orbita, was
created in Soviet Union in 1967, and was based on the principle
of using the highly elliptical Molni