Recent content by rangers00

For the sake of one channel, no sane person would buy the $180 Globecast brand new equipment! Again, that's a very piss poor excuse for not doing any research for $60 used Globecast equipment. Of course, such research should be done months before the EPL season began. I did mine last summer, in...

That is not true. Western South America (Chile, Peru) has the same longitude as Eastern U.S., but they cannot receive Dish Network signals either, because Dish signals are spot beam to Conus, with only a little spillover to Mexico and Canada. That said, I have heard of people in Venezuela...

I really don't understand you guys. You are scrambling to get Setanta Sports. You are a Dish Network sub. Yet you whine about why it's impossible to switch to DirecTV. You even ponder the possibility of watch Setanta over your broadband (ITVN). Yet Setanta can be had a la carte, with just a...

If you are into MLB or NBA, I strongly recommend it. The backhauls of MLB and NBA on C-band IA6, IA5 and G4 are easily receivable, using an analog receiver, 1.2M dish and a C-band LNBF for offset dish (from EITS). I managed to get a few games at the end of the past NBA season. Too bad I...

There is something funny about the Globecast receiver. Among all the FTA receiving device I have (DMT 1000, Globecast, Twinhan 1050A), the Globecast receiver is the only one that gets me Azteca 7 & 13 on IA6. None of the other devices can lock the signal.

Just to get analog sport backhauls, a 4" (1.2M) is adequate. I hooked up the C-band LNBF on my 4' back in April, and just managed to get some NBA backhauls on IA-6 C-band before the end of the season. The video has a few sparkles, but definitely watchable.

You would be very disappointed by Setanta. Setanta's commentators for the World Cup are probably very knowledgeable about fussball, but they'll deliver it in German. ESPN/ABC owns the English rights in the U.S. Setanta owns many other languages, and they choose to broadcast the German one...

Since when did DirecTV Mexico become a merger? merged with whom?

How did you get your receiver? I presume you activated service in Costa Rica. When you did that, didn't they install a dish and an LNBF for you? That's the LNBF you need. If that LNBF cannot be removed (e.g. someone else need it to get signals in Costa Rica), I suggest you go to the local...

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...

Folks, DirecTV Latin America works in the USA. Just take the LNBF you have from Costa Rica, you can get signal in the U.S., except you need a bigger dish. The standard dish they use in Costa Rica, the 18", won't work in most of America, except in Miami. I live in the Bay Area. I can get...

Ooops, me bad. I subbed to Dish 6 years ago, and my knowledge to Dish is still at the SWxx, Dish 500, dual LNB level... I haven't kept up with the latest and greatest equipment from Echostar, since I am subbing to Starchoice right now...

Check out Ebay, an SW44 costs as low as $32 for "buy it now", plus $13 shipping. If I were you, I would rather have eaten the cost of the SW44, bought it from Ebay, and got this thing over with, instead of spending 3 months arguing with Dish Network over the phone... You have been paying for...

I've watched games involving ALL the SPL teams. All the teams you mentioned, I've watched in SPL coverage: Aberdeen X Celtic, Aberdeen X Rangers Hearts X Celtic, Hearts X Rangers Dundee United X Celtic, Dundee United X Rangers Kilmarnock X Celtic, Kilmarnock X Rangers Hibernian X Celtic...

I would be very ticked if ESPN shows both games on the semi-final. I pay $12/month for Setanta USA exactly for the privileges of watching Barcelona X Milan that you guys can't watch it for free on ESPN2 (after paying your cable bill). If Setanta charge us $12/month but everyone with basic...