jvargasg said:
Are you really sure that people is getting Latinamerican Directv programming up in NYC? because I have been researching a lot about this and I have gave up on the idea because I heard that Directv put some kind of blocking for northamerica because a lot of people is doing it and that seems to be illegal, so they wanted to controll it.
I got the multisatellite dish with 3lnbs, the one needed for the "para todos" programming, and I guess that should work to pick up the G3C satellite, but even though I get good signal the directv receiver still tells me that is searching for satellite signal. Any ideas?
hey tico, alguna forma de hablar por email para que compartamos ideas de como hacer esto? como haces para recibir programacion fta? gracias
People have been getting DirecTV Colombia in NYC with a 1.8M dish. The furthest north that I've heard that can get Latin American DBS signal is Chicago, but I forget whether it's DirecTV Latin America or Sky Mexico (from PAS9).
DirecTV Latin America is different from DirecTV Para Todos. DirecTV Latin America has ESPN Latin America and ESPN DOS. They are meant for people who are crazy about the UEFA Champions League. The two ESPNs from Latin America broadcast 8 games/match day. They used to broadcast 10 games/match day 5-6 years ago. It's like a paradise for UEFA Champions League fans. With ESPN2 in the USA, you can only get 1 game/matchday until this past season, when they increased to 2 games.
That was until ESPN Deportes are available on Dish Network. ESPN Deportes also broadcast 8 games/matchday. ESPN Latin America/DOS has lost all its advantages. However, DirecTV Para Todos still doesn't have anything close to that, because DirecTV refuses to carry ESPN Deportes.
This is what you need to get DirecTV LA programming:
- a DirecTV LA LNBF
- a bigger dish pointing to 95W (G3C). It depends on where you live. In northern California, I can get signals with a 36" dish (marginal), but decent signals with a 48" dish.
- a DirecTV LA receiver
- a gray market subscriptions from Central America or northern South America (Colombia/Venezuela). DirecTV Latin America has two beams: southern beam covers Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and northern beam covers Colombia/Venezuela, Central America and Mexico. That's how the signal gets to USA, spillover from Mexico. So if you get a subscription from Argentina, it won't work, but a subscription from Venezuela will.
It used to be easier to get DirecTV Latin America in the U.S. from gray market subs from Mexico. But that branch went bankrupt last year so one has to go the Central America/Venezuela/Colombia route...