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What started out as a Neiman Marcus holiday catalog uber gift affordable only to the very wealthy, the private home satellite system costing $36,000 evolved over the years to the familiar 18-inch dish you see on rooftops everywhere. General Instrument VideoCipher Division was one of the early leaders of the industry, propelled to the top by their integrated receiver descramblers (IRDs), which combined precise antenna positioning with signal processing and descrambling. |