After television, that product of purely Western technology, got onto satellites, by the 1990s a trend had become clear: The transponder on a satellite has increased from 1 to 256 channels.
電視這個純西方的科技產物，登上衛星後，到了九○年代的發展趨勢是，一個衛星的轉頻器已經可以從一個，壓縮成可供二百五十六個頻道使用。