Recent content by marco916

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    New to FTA, Found dish

    I see, thanks Pro96
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    The Dish Documentary

    Yes, that was the coolest part of the show, how they spun the dishes out. The lengths’ they go to undercover to put the dish up. Seems like the police cracks down every once in awhile on them.
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    New to FTA, Found dish

    Welcome Midnight, this is the best place to learn it all from the pro's doing this. Not to change the subject or anything, I noticed Muzak was labeled on the Dish. I've worked with this vendor here on the west coast in one of the hospitals I support. They provide music streaming services for...
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    The Dish Documentary

    Hey guys, it’s been awhile since I posted on Satellite Guys, but I’ve been lurking around from time to time. Has anybody checked out the” The Dish” Documentary, not the movie with Sam Neil at Parks “that one was good also, I also watched that one recently” This is about Satellite...
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    Intelsat Dish Farm Napa

    Hi Sherrel, I'm actually the one who started this thread awhile back. I never realized how big the ABS-CBN network was until now. I've actually seen the ABS-CBN, TFC "The Filipino Channel" studios in Manila many times when visiting relatives. They have some huge Satellite Dishes as well at the...
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    OTA Antenna Poll

    Thats pretty neat Magic Static , so those Antennas from Lava that claim 150 miles, is that just Snake Oil Technology?
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    OTA Antenna Poll

    Larry1 when you talk about Deep Fringe, what do you mean by that term, I've seen that term on the Channel Master 4228 Antenna.
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    OTA Antenna Poll

    Ice Whats the proper term for describing HDTV Antennas?? UHF/VHF Antenna?
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    OTA Antenna Poll

    What are you guys using for HDTV antennas? I'm curious if any of those long range direct antennas work like the ones from Lava, Vortex. I know they claim 150 miles, but what are you really getting max?
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    HDHomerun, DVBViewer Clear QAM and OTA

    Two HD Homerun tuners and Happauge DVB-S running Just my 0.02 cents on how I'm using my HD Homerun tuners with Windows 7, EYETV and VLC I've been running HD Homerun tuner 2nd Gen and the newer Dual ATSC tuner on Comcast QAM signal for about 6 months now. I have the 1st tuner on OTA antenna...
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    Free 6ft fiberglass dish with stand **Sacramento area**

    This is pickup only in the Sacramento area. I'm moving and can't use it. This was supposed to be my project, but never got around to getting it up and running. Free to good home. You will need a pickup truck. The dish measures about 6 1/2 feet, comes with heavy duty stand. I even have the LNB...
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    IVI Review

    Are you doing allot of Torrent downloads by any chance or serving as a host site? being on Comcast, they have a habit of chopping down your bandwidth, bandwidth throttling seems to be popular with Comcast. I would have a QOS "Quality of Service" check done by Comcast to verify things look good...
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    IVI Review

    Interesting site :up Looks like a promising service, I wonder if they are getting the channels via another cable service or over the air, they look to me over the air channels and just feed Silicon Dust style to the customer. I wonder if they will provide international channels in the future...
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    Roku..Need some info..please

    Roku vs Western Digital Media Plus How does the Roku and Western Digital Media player plus stack up against each other, I hear good things on both of these. The Roku seems to have some supported paid streams you can access, and the Western Digital just has Netflix and Pandora only, but supports...
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    New FTA service with 20 english channels

    How to connect to FreeDBS This is funny, finally some real info YouTube - FreeDBS Equipment & broadcast first look! :p