A newbie question

[joray85]

I have decided on RG11 for my cable, now the other questions i have


what FTA receiver can do mpeg2 and mpeg 4 with scanning and has a connection so i can add an external hard drive and turn it into a dvr?

can a large cband dish see programs from SatelliteGuys.US_TheList - TheList in medium listings too ?



what motor and ku and c--band feedhorn / lnb is best ?

[Tron]

RG-11 is great cable, and does very well for long runs, but is not really needed unless you're going to go more than 150 feet or so. It requires special compression fittings, and only some of the compression tools will do RG-11. Not trying to talk you out of RG-11, just pointing out some of the requirements you will encounter.

To answer your question about a receiver, the Solomend (Sathawk) will do both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, and has excellent blind scan. It has a nice price point, but there are some issues that still haven't been worked out with the box regarding display and recording of high bitrate feeds. The AZBox will do MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, but I'm not sure whether the higher models have true blind scan or not. It also has problems with recording high bitrate feeds.

A C-Band dish will receive channels from the medium listings (Ku-Band) if you use a combination C-Ku band LNBF. There have been issues reported by many members with getting both C-Band and Ku-Band aligned correctly at the same time. I would not necessarily recommend such a setup for someone just starting out, however, some have had acceptable results.

I'll let other members tackle the motor and feedhorn question, as my C-Band dish is stationary.

[joray85]

RG-11 is great cable, and does very well for long runs, but is not really needed unless you're going to go more than 150 feet or so. It requires special compression fittings, and only some of the compression tools will do RG-11. Not trying to talk you out of RG-11, just pointing out some of the requirements you will encounter.

To answer your question about a receiver, the Solomend (Sathawk) will do both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, and has excellent blind scan. It has a nice price point, but there are some issues that still haven't been worked out with the box regarding display and recording of high bitrate feeds. The AZBox will do MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, but I'm not sure whether the higher models have true blind scan or not. It also has problems with recording high bitrate feeds.

A C-Band dish will receive channels from the medium listings (Ku-Band) if you use a combination C-Ku band LNBF. There have been issues reported by many members with getting both C-Band and Ku-Band aligned correctly at the same time. I would not necessarily recommend such a setup for someone just starting out, however, some have had acceptable results.

I'll let other members tackle the motor and feedhorn question, as my C-Band dish is stationary.

By compression fittings, do you mean the connectors you put on the ends of the cables used to hook them into the tv and boxes and the dish itself ?

So those 2 boxes are the best ?

Why is it hard to align c band and ku band at same time ? do you mean when you try to have 2 sats aligned to view the material or when try to simlpy move to their orbital locations ?

Also will any boxes have hdmi 1.4 ? i do not care about 3d, i just like having the latest specs.

After viewing the boxes you mentioned, they look pretty good the Solomend (Sathawk) controls the motor too, just to look at other receivers why are their so many different ones ?

[Iceberg]

By compression fittings, do you mean the connectors you put on the ends of the cables used to hook them into the tv and boxes and the dish itself ?

correct...the ends on the cable

As Tron noted, unless you have a long cable run (I usually say more than 200 feet) RG6 will work just fine. RG11 is bigger and you need a special tool to put RG11 ends on

[joray85]

Also with the ethernet allow us to MRV ?

also do any have 10/100/1000 ethernet ?

how does the Streethawk FTA box rate vs theSonicview 8000 HD ?

I wish their was a site where all FTA boxes features ARE listed with check boxes so a person could check the ones they want then click ok then the site matches you to a box that is closest to what the consumer wants

[Iceberg]

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4:2:2 is chroma subsampling...basically the way the signal is sent
4:2:0 is "normal" and all FTA receivers can see 4:2:0
4:2:2 is different. While the channels will scan in unless you have a receiver that does 4:2:2 all you'll see on the screen is a "tearing" on the screen. No picture just sound

Also with the ethernet allow us to MRV ?

also do any have 10/100/1000 ethernet ?

no