Recent content by Stefan

Yes. That's bad. Don't call NET. They wouldn't authorize your receiver anyway as it's doubtful they do that for anyone but local affiliates. However, in this case they couldn't even if they wanted to. Therefore you calling them could serve no good and only do harm as they might decide they'd...

I don't know if doing an authorization reset would be a good idea. In fact, if it we me, I think I'd avoid that at all cost because I fear that it might possibly cause the unit to lose it's previously authorized status. If I recall using my 4200, there were 2 different menu items. One was...

No. This is incorrect. FP is not FTA. FP in encrypted. It's more than just a matter of flags or registers set in the receiver. The stream is actually encrypted. If you have a device like the skywalker/genpix device which will tune DCII signals you'll see that the FP streams are actually...

A primestar remote can be used. Other General instruments or motorola remote may work as well, but I'm not sure.

The description doesn't say anything about AC3. It just says it's a digital to analog converter. That would make it just a DAC and not capable of decoding AC3. That fact that it only has stereo outputs would also support this as most AC3 decoders would have mutlichannel outputs. Also it would...

I have the 8920 (regular PCI) and so far I've been quite pleased with it. One of the features of it is it can be used with Tsreader though it only works in a round about kind of way. To use it with Tsreader, you have to also have DVBdream installed along with a special driver for it. You also...

I agree and have had the same experience. After being dissapointed by both the tt-3600 and the tt-3200, there's no way I'd recommend another technotrend product to anyone. I think they were just first. The technotrends products I mentioned above were the first dvb-s2 products you could get...

Bingo! This is the only result any kind of attempt to "do something about it" can possibly have. Sure you can attempt to sue them perhaps if you find a laywer dumb enough to take your case, but in the end the judge will likely laugh you out of his court room. You see in this hobby we're often...

Be careful. Some of them have HSI input only, which makes them only useful with the older Digicipher II receivers like the DSR-4200 and DSR-4400. I think the models with ASI were kinda rare or at least more rare than the ones that only had HSI.

If you buy the tt3600 you'll regret it. I speak from experience here. It has a serious limitation with regard to high data rate feeds. That's because it's a data rate limitation and not a symbol rate limitation. That means the modulation comes into play. On a Qpsk feed you'll not encounter...

No,the satellites in the same location it has always been. You either have some variation in the aiming of your dish or your experiencing interference from signals on adjacent satellites. The interfering signals may not be active all the time, which may explain why the sweet spot seems to move...

But, did you factor in the cost of commercial receiver with ASI out or a $500 ASI PCI output card? You see that's the big piece of the puzzle your missing here. Now, if these units had L band inputs then it would have been a fantastic deal, but since they're ASI in only that significantly...

You guys do know there are other ways to get 4:2:2 SD decoding right? Reportedly the Popcorn hour media players will play 4:2:2 SD. The MyHD ota tuner cards will also playback recorded 4:2:2 SD content as will VLC. 4:2:2 HD is more of a problem, but a modern PC can handle it. These boxes are SD...

Yes, but you have to understand that with commercial receivers like this many things are optional and the original purchaser orders them from the manufacturer with only the "options" they want and/or need. After looking at the manual you linked to, you'll see the location of "RF In" connector on...

For that price you wouldn't lose much anyway but you might want to inquire as to whether these receivers have L band inputs of if perhaps they're ASI only. If they're ASI only you'll need another receiver that has L band input and ASI out and you'll need to feed the ASI out from it into the ASI...