Thread: Diamond 9000HD PVR Review

Received my 9000HD today and hooked everything up (36" KU and OTA). Boy, the picture quality is FANTASTIC using HDMI to my 32" Sharp Aquos!

HD OTA looks amazing. PBS HD on 87w is equally good. I like how I no longer need to run the audio through my home theatre receiver to hear AC3 audio. The receiver passes it through to my tv and the audio comes from there.

I find the menu structure and functionality very similar to my Coolsat 5000. Made the learning curve less steep.

Next step is trying out the PVR functionality. I picked up a 160 GB external USB drive and FAT32 formatted it. We'll see how that goes.

Since my car audio system can play MP3s that are on a usb stick I figured out a way to convert recordings into mp3 files:

Let the diamond record a radio station for one hour at night, then copy the .TRP file to PC. First rename "song.trp" to "song.ts", then use "PVAStrumento" to convert it to a MPA, and then use another program to convert it to an MP3. It still sounds good. It is possible to split it into smaller mp3s.

I also have been recording Seinfeld’s every night and move them to my PC collection; Media Player Classic does a great job of playing them... no conversion needed. I have a ton of them!

Hint: I you are going to record a SD show... try to find it on a 480i channel rather than the pillar-boxed local ATSC channel that is in 720 or 1080.... Much smaller file.



Cool Scan Feature
It has a feature to scan multiple satellites... you can tell it to do just a scan (TP scan) of your favorite 7 birds in a row... so you don't have to scan one at a time. You need switches for it to work... have not tried USALS (maybe it will move it and wait... I am not sure)

I'm new to fta and recently purchased the Daimond HD9000. I hooked it up to a single c-band dish that is tuned to anolog channels. I can't get the receiver to pick up any channels. How do you set the receiver? I've tried all the LNB settings

upload this channel list, try c-band satellite 99 first, scan the sat and you should get channels. That channel list has every sat and lots of TPs for each sat. Make sure your switch it setup right... and that you have signal / quality.

How you been able to scan a ATSC channel yet?

Thank You

Originally Posted by tha19

I hooked it up to a single c-band dish that is tuned to anolog channels.
I can't get the receiver to pick up any channels.

It's a Hi Def receiver... I can't imagine that it will receive anything analog.

Originally Posted by Anole

It's a Hi Def receiver... I can't imagine that it will receive anything analog.

It won't.

If you think about it, all sats have dig bands and a few have analog still. Locating a signal on the old analog receiver locked me into a satellite. Once I got the new sat list I was able to set the frequency and get the diamond to work> I'm sure most of are aware of this but the previous replies don't show it.

Another thing I noticed about my 9000HD is how the loop out functions.

I have it going to my Coolsat 5000 (for blindscanning) and I notice the Coolsat won't receive a signal unless the 9000HD is on. This makes things a little annoying because I can only scan TP's that have the same polarity as what the 9000HD is tuned to.

Anyone else notice this?