Coolsat 8000

**LoTech** · 03-16-2010 02:36 PM

I have a chance to buy a Coolsat 8000 HD for about $80. Is this a good price?

Does it do DVB, DVB-S2, QPSK, and 8PSK?

Thanks in advance.

LoTech

**brentb636** · 03-16-2010 02:46 PM

Yes , it does all that ! It's a good receiver for that price, but it has NO blindscan, but does handle a motor well. I'm using 2 of them as primary receivers, now.

**pro96** · 03-16-2010 02:52 PM

I paid $20.00 for one last year..

**Davage** · 03-16-2010 03:04 PM

I have a Coolsat 8100 that I paid $100 for. Awesome receiver. It has a built-in over-the-air digital tuner too... I'm pretty sure that the model 8000 has the over-the-air tuner too!

It lacks satellite blind scanning, but it does pull in DVB-S2 / 8PSK / etc..

**LoTech** · 03-16-2010 03:22 PM

Thanks guys.

**guapoharry** · 03-16-2010 06:46 PM

If I recall correctly, it doesn't do 4:2:2 and there's no channel editor program. Also, the user interface takes some getting used to.

But for $80, if it comes with a remote - that's reasonable.

**Kb Cool** · 03-16-2010 08:18 PM

Hey guys, My friend has a Coolsat 8000. He brought it over to my house and the one thing i hated about it was you can't seperate the channel list by sat. I think only Alphabetical or numeric? I don't know what software was on it. So maybe that could the reason. Is it?
Thanks

**Anole** · 03-16-2010 08:49 PM

I did a little research in the dungeon, and -think- the following is true:

- last factory firmware:
Coolsat 8000 HD Default Software(01/28/2009) - CS8000-2025A.zip

- last hacker firmware:
CS8000_xxxx_yyyyy_12062F_20090601.zip - (summer of '09)

So, you should be able to get the firmware version from the receiver, and decide if it needs to be reflashed.

**brentb636** · 03-16-2010 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by kbghdg

Hey guys, My friend has a Coolsat 8000. He brought it over to my house and the one thing i hated about it was you can't seperate the channel list by sat. I think only Alphabetical or numeric? I don't know what software was on it. So maybe that could the reason. Is it?
Thanks

Hit the FAV key, it gives you a sat selection, and then you get only those channels.

**Kb Cool** · 03-16-2010 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by brentb636

Hit the FAV key, it gives you a sat selection, and then you get only those channels.

Thanks, I wonder if my friend has figured that out yet

One more question.
We were trying to watch an S2 Mpeg4 HD feed on AMC 11 Cband and the picture was freezing and restarting every second. I don't want to mention exactly which feed here. But, maybe you can figure out which one i'm talking about and can report if you had similar issues. Or anybody else?