Real Digital is the brand name for a digital satellite television and radio service in the United Kingdom which is transmitted from SES S.A.'s Astra satellites located at 28.2° east (Astra 2A/2B/2D/1N) and Eutelsat's 28A satellite at 28.5°E. Real Digital also plans to launch in Ireland. The service ceased transmitting on 31 March 2012, promising to return in seven days. As of May 2012^[update], this has not yet happened.

Real Digital's main competitors are Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media.

Currently, Real Digital only offer free-to-air channels which have been available on other platforms for several years, however they intend to offer pay television packages by spring 2012 which will include Sky Sports 1 and 2 and a high definition version of Blackbelt TV. Subscription packages will be available on a month-by-month basis, without a contract or minimum subscription period. Additionally, pay-per-view services will be made available. Support for the BBC iPlayer and ITV Player video on demand services has also been announced.

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Wesley Maynor

Real (Spanish pronunciation: [reˈal]), translated from Spanish as "royal", is a title historically used by sports clubs to designate a royal status.

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A digital system is a data technology that uses discrete (discontinuous) values. By contrast, non-digital (or analog) systems represent information using a continuous function. Although digital representations are discrete, the information represented can be either discrete, such as numbers and letters or continuous, such as sounds, images, and other measurements.

The word digital comes from the same source as the word digit and digitus (the Latin word for finger), as fingers are used for discrete counting. It is most commonly used in computing and electronics, especially where real-world information is converted to binary numeric form as in digital audio and digital photography.

When data is transmitted, or indeed handled at all, a certain amount of noise enters into the signal. Noise can have several causes: data transmitted wirelessly, such as by radio, may be received inaccurately, suffer interference from other wireless sources, or pick up background noise from the rest of the universe. Microphones pick up both the intended signal as well as background noise without discriminating between signal and noise, so when audio is encoded digitally, it typically already includes noise.