Recent content by dishdood

MPEG4 and 8PSK-turbo are not mutually exclusive. MPEG4 & MPEG2 are forms of compression, 8PSK-turbo is a modulation sceme.

VoIP over the satellite really isn't that bad. Anyone with a GSM phone should already be accustomed to a similiar delay, especially when calling another GSM user. 2 sat users calling eachother might be a bit much though...

DishProPlus allows 2 tuners on one cable by giving the lower band (950-1550) to one and the upper band (1550-2150) to the other, essentially creating two channels. Its conceivable that the next step is to further sub-divide, allowing 4,8,16 (etc) tuners per cable. The switchs will have to get...

The odd transponders are where they always were, the evens are flipped above them in the 1650 to 2150 range. the spacing is the same. the lowest number even transponder is the highest frequency, then work your way down. diseqc 2.0 spec can be had from eutelsat...

I think they're confusing it with the 6000. The 811 is blue when displaying sat stuff and amber when displaying OTA programming. Its strange that you see macroblocking on svideo and not on the HD at the same time, I'm not sure how that can happen.