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RI-based KVH Industries, Inc., a provider of satellite TV in motion and communication systems, has announced that company’s TracVision HD7′s key innovations is now available for free from the Apple iTunes Store.

According to the company, the HD7 is a new TracVision breaking solution to overcome the challenge raised when DIRECTV moved its HDTV programming to new Ka-band satellites incompatible with existing maritime satellite TV systems.
 
KVH antenna technology uses TriAD to solve this problem, which receives signals from all three main DIRECTV satellites, tracks those satellites even as the boat cruises at high speeds and through rough seas, and provides a DIRECTV HD experience just like at home.
 
The signals received from three DIRECTV satellites are concentrated by the tuned subreflector before reaching KVH’s unique tri-rod dielectric feed, resulting in reception as good as a home dish and outstanding tracking of programming broadcast by Ka- and Ku-band satellites, the company said.
 
“With the TracVision HD7, KVH completely redefined the expectations for what a marine satellite TV system is capable of by offering a compact system with simultaneous reception of signals from three satellites, something other manufacturers said was impossible,” Jim Dodez said, KVH’s vice president of marketing and strategic development.
 
The company has left the serial ports and dedicated technical apps to a powerful and easy to use IP-based system that offers boat owners easy access to their TracVision HD7 directly from their iPhone, iPod touch or any web browser on the boat, Dodez added.
 
In Apple’s iTunes App Store users can download KVH’s free TracVision iPhone app and load it on their iPhone or iPod touch.
 
Once installed and connected to the TracVision HD7′s secure Wi-Fi interface, boaters can then use it to check satellite TV signal strength, switch to secondary satellites, download and automatically install antenna software updates, and send information directly to KVH technical support.