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I just finished listening to the recording of Satellite Nation from earlier tonight and was quite interested in a new receiver that was mentioned on the program that sounds like it just might be better than most of the receivers out there. Here are some notes I made about this receiver (I hope...

Some time back I subscribed to an RSS feed from this site before I knew anything about it, anyway today a link came in to this post which I found quite interesting: http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?p=2021770#post2021770 It begins this way: I was just mentioning a day or...

As some of you may know I have been on something of a quest to figure out what would be the best FTA receiver for me to buy when the weather gets a bit nicer, and I have pretty much decided that one of my absolute requirements is that programs recorded off the satellites can be viewed from other...

Here are the top most requested features from that thread. Note that I don't try to summarize things very often and I'm not perfect, so if I miscounted or didn't classify something quite right it was unintentional. If anyone else wants to have a go at summarizing that thread, feel free to...

I was just over at the FridgeFTA site and saw this post: http://www.fridgefta.info/forums/showthread.php?tid=33423 Unfortunately he doesn't say anything about the things I'd most like to know about, such as whether that extra processing power will let it receive 4:2:2, whether recordings...

After reading some of the recent threads about the benefits and drawbacks of certain receivers, I got to thinking that it might not be a bad idea to ask what the "perfect" next-generation FTA receiver might include. One way to think about that is, what does your current receiver NOT do (or do...

I've bean searching for an inexpensive FTA receiver that will actually allow access to recorded programs from other computers on the local network, and I happened to stumble across this new Chinese receiver that (they say) actually runs Linux. I have never heard of it before and as far as I can...

Quick question for anyone that has a working C-band system - Lyngsat's page at http://www.lyngsat.com/Anik-F1R.html shows several high def "see tee vee" feeds in the clear on 4020V and 4140V. Can anyone successfully receive those and if so, to your knowledge is there anything special about them...

I'm full of questions today, but right now I'm wondering if the FTA equipment manufacturers (particularly receiver manufacturers) exhibit at CES, or any other trade show for that matter. Implied in my question is whether we are likely to see any new models of FTA satellite receivers make an...

I'm starting a new thread for this so as not to hijack any other thread - this really is a separate discussion. If you search for Raspberry Pi Power Control in your favorite search engine, you will see that many people are using Raspberry Pis to control power to various devices. If you have...

Here is my situation. I have two C-band dishes (one motorized, one fixed) plus a couple of Ku-band dishes, though I doubt the Ku's will be helpful for what I want. I mentioned what it is I'm trying to receive on the private forum so I won't repeat that here. But what I do want to know is if...

I have been out of the FTA scene since my Diamond 9000HD took a power surge (or something happened) and now it simply will not power up. Now that spring-like weather is almost here (I HOPE!!!) I'm debating on whether to try to get back into FTA. This would be partly so I could record certain...

I just came across an announcement of this device: TBS MOI DVB-S2 Streaming Box The specifications are here. They won't actually be available until March although pre-orders are being taken at one site now. However, I notice that the specifications mention nothing about the use of a...

My old FTA receiver (Diamond 9000HD) recently died, and since I currently have a MythTV backend running on a repurposed Mac Mini (using Mythbuntu Linux as the OS, NOT OS X) and a HDHomeRun Dual that does a pretty good job of receiving and recording OTA programs, I am thinking about extending it...

I am still using a Diamond 9000HD receiver that I purchased many months ago, and it does about half of what I want. I keep watching for something better to come along that would give me the capabilities I have now, but also some others on my "wish list." This is what I'm looking for in a...

In case you don't know what I'm talking about, see this review: Acer AspireRevo Upgraded: Windows 7, Ion Graphics, Dual-Core Atom CPU - Acer AspireRevo R3610-U9012 - Gizmodo It looks just about perfect for a media center computer… small, low power, looks like it would be quiet in operation...

Apparently sometime in the last hour or two, TitanTV revampled their site and in the process they managed to lose the entire custom channel list I had built. Grrrr… Saying you want to import your previous settings apparently does NOT import your custom channel list!

We basically just lost our CBS affiliate here - if you look at the map at http://www.fcc.gov/dtv/markets/maps_report_0609/Grand_Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle_Creek_MI.pdf for station WWMT, we are in one of the "orange diamond" areas - so yes, we SUPPOSEDLY have service from another CBS affiliate...

Excerpt from article at Multichannel news: Rest of article here. I see some call letters I recognize… damn! Does this mean those feeds will go buh-bye?

I'm trying to gather some information now in preparation for the shutoff of analog stations in February. As background, last year some incompetent tree trimmers managed to destroy our TV antenna, as well as a portion of our roof. Since we had to have the antenna replaced anyway we decided to...

I have a friend (not local to me, unfortunately) who found a lady on Craigslist that was giving away a satellite system. He's been hearing me talk about FTA and so he went and got it. From the way he describes it, it's similar to the system described at this link and he got receiver, dish and...

This is a very similar issue to the one in the thread Coolsat 5000 Can't receive CW on G11 but the fix proposed there doesn't work because you cannot edit the frequency or symbol rate of an existing channel, only the name and the PIDS (why, oh why would they not allow you to edit the frequency...

My son got me a new Diamond 9000HD off of eBay - it is brand new, was still in the shrink wrap when he got it. Prior to this I had a Pansat 2500A with several dishes hooked up via a 4 input DISEqC switch and four 22 kHz tone switches, which I guess is a DISEqC 1.0 setup. Anyway, I guess I...

Quick question, was talking to a friend that maybe wants to get an FTA system but would be much more interested if he could get PBS. I found the PBS channels but of course, no sound because they are all AC3. Turns out that he doesn't have an audio system at all (let alone one with a SPDIF...

I am uploading a ZIP file that contains a couple of overlays for Google Earth. tv.kmz contains data for the United States, and can.kmz is data for Canada. When you load these files into Google Earth, it will display every television transmitter shown in this FCC list...