What is TVRO?

TVRO stands for "TV Receive Only", but that really does not give you a good sense of what TVRO is.

The term TVRO is used to describe both Free To Air satellite and paid programming over similar equipment.

Free To Air satellite is unencrypted. TVRO premium analog channels are encrypted using VideoCipher II RS. TVRO premium digital channels are encrypted using Digicipher II.

TVRO programming is encoded with MPEG-2.