pizza dish

English edit

A pizza dish

From its similarity in shape and size to a pizza.

pizza dish (plural pizza dishes)

(informal, telecommunications) A K_u-band satellite dish used by direct broadcast satellite systems, ranging from 18 to 31 inches in diameter.
Coordinate term: big ugly dish
- 2006 January 30, Maxodyne, “Re: 4DTV Future 2006”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv‎^[1] (Usenet):
  True, many former C-banders have traded in their BUDs for pizza dishes. […] Most of those programmers are smart: they offer C-band *and* pizza dish programming. So, for every C-band customer lost to pizza, they gain a pizza client. Conversely, it is these pizza dish clients who are enabling programmers to continue to provide C-band programming.