Directv was launched in 1994 by General Motors subsidiary Hughes Electronics. At the time of writing, DirecTV has over 15 million customers in the U.S. and nearly 2 million in Latin America, achieving total revenues of $3.15 billion in year 2005. Although challenged by Dish Network aggressively, DirecTV remain as the largest U.S. satellite TV company and their growing pace had never slow down.

DirecTV was the first high-powered Direct Broadcast Satellite System (DBS) service in the world. As satellite broadcast via DBS system is done in the Ku-Band where the satellite dish size requirement is smaller, DirecTV users normally use a fixed 18