1) Direct-broadcast satellite (DBS) transmits satellite television signals for home reception and involves programming sources, broadcast centers, satellites, satellite dishes, and receivers. 2) Error correction in DBS uses interleaving and de-interleaving to improve burst error correction by distributing errors across codewords. 3) MPEG standards including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 are used for audio and video compression and transmission, with MPEG-2 widely used for digital television broadcast by satellite, cable, and terrestrial television systems.