unencrypted DSS channels?

**freezy** · 08-08-2009 10:47 AM

I thought DSS was owned by Hubbard Communication. Wasn't that the premium channel pkg?

**Smith, P.** · 08-08-2009 10:51 AM

Well, that would be interesting to classify the 4DTV method of transmitting digital sat signal:

Standard Encryption Modulation
-------- ---------- --------------
DVB-S, FTA/Iredeto/Nagravision/Conax/etc, QPSK/8PSK
DVB-S2, <same>, QPSK/8PSK/16APSK/32APSK
DSS, FTA/Videoguard, QPSK
DSS-3, Videoguard, 8PSK [Ka]

4DTV(?), Digicipher II, OOPSK, I-PSK/Q-PSK,

If I missed some,please add to that.

**B.J.** · 08-08-2009 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by Iceberg

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Originally Posted by Iceberg

I mentioned what standard they were using (DVB & DCII) and agreed with you that they were scrambled (all the audio on Bell). Don't know what the issue is

BTW, not all the Bell audio is scrambled. It used to be that all the HD stuff had FTA audio, but since it looks like all the HD moved to 8PSK, that isn't available to me anymore, however there are still several SD channels on the remaining QPSK transponders that have FTA audio, and not all of them are even AC3, although mostly it's the AC3 stuff.
I think I saw a bit more than a dozen channels on Nimiq-4, and I remember seeing a few on the other Nimiq last time I went there.

**Iceberg** · 08-08-2009 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by freezy

I thought DSS was owned by Hubbard Communication. Wasn't that the premium channel pkg?

Hubbard owned USSB which had all the premium channels and the Viacom channels (MTV, Nick, etc). So when you had DIrecTV you could have both USSB & Directv

**Iceberg** · 08-08-2009 10:13 PM

BJ
I think we were talking about the audio only channels

**zamar23** · 11-15-2009 12:10 AM

Somebody on the web mentioned the latest clear channel DSS Content Reader
DSSCR 1.0.6b

. DSS-to-DVB 0.3.0 plugin of the same author was mentioned early in this thread to allow watching clear DSS channels with TSReader.

**willie8605** · 11-16-2009 09:05 AM

Awesome. will have to check this out.

**zamar23** · 11-17-2009 05:16 PM

Answering what devices support tuning clear DSS signals,
TSReader Hardware Support

page lists some of these, including device pics.

**willie8605** · 11-18-2009 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by zamar23

Answering what devices support tuning clear DSS signals,
TSReader Hardware Support

page lists some of these, including device pics.

Note that the last update to this site is 1.5 years old, so may not include newer hardware.

**zamar23** · 11-18-2009 09:54 AM

It might be because newer hardware developers offer only BDA drivers, or DSS signal tuning capability in some newer chipsets is turned Off on purpose in their device drivers. But the list of supporting devices above may be incomplete for sure.