Thaicom offers a digital signal compression and transmission services via satellite directly to residential customers. Digital video compression technology can reduce video transmission costs to the broadcasters. In addition, viewers can use small antennas (sub-meter) to receive the digital channel directly.

With a wide range of services to direct-to-home operators including uplink and downlink programs using their own equipment or using Thaicom's “Thaicom Teleport and DTH Center”, digital compression, digital broadcasting, subscriber management with encryption and conditional access service, satellite transponder capacity and the return path for transactional or interactive services are available. Thaicom’s services enable its customers to provide various content and channel options to their direct-to-home viewers, including service tiering and packaging, pay-per-view and near video-on-demand, electronic program guides and preview channels, home shopping, interactive ordering and advertising.

Thaicom has delivered Digital DTH using the Ku-band frequency since 1993 and was the world's first full scale user to adopt the MPEG-2/DVB standard in 1995.