Thread: New FTA service with 20 english channels

Their web site seems to almost be responding to our posts in a knee-jerk reaction mode.
Plus, this quote, "Receiver requirements are a digital satellite receiver such as one of the older Dish Network Receivers, Pansat or clone or one of the newer free to air digital receivers available on the market."
That left me with a bad feeling last night.
Now I know what it is... and I think they're full of it.

I imagine if enough of us here ask the right questions, they'll either show their colors, or disappear shortly..

Originally Posted by PopcornNMore

Why would the site say that older Dish Network receivers would be able to receive these FTA channels? Something is not right here.

Other than NASA, ION, Angel and the barker channels...that would be all that could be received. Unless the "older" Dish receivers could be reprogrammed for regular FTA...which they can't according to posts I have been reading. Maybe I am missing something here...

Dish receivers only receive what they're authorized to receive, whether it's FTA or not. Dish unscrambled all their channels last October and subscribers didn't get anything extra.

Unless there's something different about really old Dish receivers, but I think anything that old has probably been thrown out long ago because Dish won't even authorize them anymore. I tossed mine when it became useless even for NASA.

It's not even April Fool's Day yet...what makes anyone think that a legitimate "old" DN receiver gets anything other than what is mapped down into it?

Originally Posted by Anole

Their web site seems to almost be responding to our posts in a knee-jerk reaction mode.
Plus, this quote, "Receiver requirements are a digital satellite receiver such as one of the older Dish Network Receivers, Pansat or clone or one of the newer free to air digital receivers available on the market."
That left me with a bad feeling last night.
Now I know what it is... and I think they're full of it.

did some googling and found the below on a hacker site.
they seem to have a lot more info than the web site and the post was the same day that the domain was registered, Hmmmmm smells like barn yard to me.

c/p
FTA channels in the clear and Ad. supported are in the making with former NASA engineer George Metcalf and others that are in the television broadcasting line of work. Would start out with 20 channels including a News channel , Mountain Music channel, Nature channel ,War movie channel , And others.
Would include a guide that would work on most FTA's . Future channel capacity could be as high as 200 channels. All channels would be in the clear except a PPv movie and fight channel that would work with a access card that plugs in the front of Your FTA receiver. Access cards would be on a yearly fee and available from FTA dealers. A larger Dish would be required 22-32 inch for good reception.

FREEDBS is the site name ,you figure out extension. Hope that helps.

If they are going to have encrypted channels too, maybe they could fake a Dish channel map somehow, but I wouldn't bet my life on it. They haven't actually said they're using Nagra, after all, and in fact I don't think most of the receivers on the U.S. market have a Nagra slot.

There are three possibilities here.

1. It's legit (possible but not probable).
2. Somebody living in a fantasy world.
3. Scam artist setting up a penny stock swindle (Get in on the ground floor and make millions offer).

The O/P from the hacker site was asked to name his source but would not.

I wonder if they will be asking for a credit card number to sign up.