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    Seeking an EXPERT in Cable-QAM-channels

    TiVo uses the cablecard to map QAM channels to VCT numbers for the guide, and to decrypt encrypted channels. An HD model TiVo can work without a cablecard, but only get celar QAM digital channels (in addition to analog and OTA), and record with manual timers.) You can, or at least used to be...
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    WireLess!!

    With my Engieering Fundamentals hat on, I don't see it as impossible, just not cheap, at least without a consumer scale system. First, it would need powered, maybe by a coax or Class 2 power wiring. You would feed it 24 volts at a few amps. The easier way is to do what SWiM does, which is to...
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    ANGA Cable/Satellite 2011 Show, Cologne, Germany

    Not Ku band I guess, likely terrestrial data.
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    No FTA in Paris Apsrtment.... :(

    IPTV, in the technical sense, is "Layer 2" IP, the Internet we use is "Layer 3". That basically means that you can access that particular IPTV service on participating ISPs. If it is delivered over the general "Layer 3" Internet, then it is not really IPTV...
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    Review: Vbox-X Postioner!

    I don't know if this influenced your grade, but two deficiencies I see are:</br> 1. The RF block is not enclosed in a shield. 2. At least, the transformer is on all the time, or it seems that way. They should at least have had a low power logic supply, which turns on the main transformer. A...
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    Could we campaign Euro FTA providers to transmit here?

    The way I see it, is that in the USA and Canada, after the primary broadcast networks and other local stations, cable TV came before "cable" type channels, and as cable type channels arrived (earlier ones were mostly pay with little advertising), cable providers were the inital and exclusive...
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    How Important is the STB Front Panel Display?

    I frankly don't care. A power/signal LED would be fine, similar to the Motorola DSR410, with a DVR record LED. In menu brightness could be doable. A unit could be easily bench modified to other than red/green. You could include a header to add ones choice of standard character display, and...
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    Compare Shaw service with Direct or E*

    It depends on the package. Some have both. I have Digital Favorites, and get both coasts US networks, in SD and HD. It depends where Shaw thinks you are. If you are within the market of a Canadian station they carry, the station can opt for sim-sub and have the signal of the US channel switched...
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    Some things you may have never seen before!

    Those are mostly British/European receivers, although some might have been American too. I would like somebody to do a museum of American TVRO recevers, or at least a history page.
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    Tuner Questions

    If you are doing it from computer, one possible solution may be to get a USB or PCI DVB-S QPSK tuner card, although a standalone receiver is ultimately simpler. Another option for automation, is to get receiver controllable by serial, or an IR blaster in your automation. Most consumer receivers...
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    History-live on Al Jazeera 97W

    Which providers? I have Shaw Direct, and it is not on it, nor on their cable offering, I think. Bell and Rogers might have it. I think both have Russia Today.
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    Tv in the U.K and we thought we had it rough!

    Actually, the license is mandatory if you want to watch TV at all practically, state broadcaster or not. The only exception is watcing it after it airs, from online or DVDs. You can own a TV receiver without a license, so long as you can prove to an inspector, it is not being used to receive TV...
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    Tv in the U.K and we thought we had it rough!

    Actially, it paid for the TV set itself. Rent-to-own (called Hire/Purchase) has been big on the poorer days of the UK economy, and TVs on H/P were often coin op. Also, it is not uncommon to have coin op electric and gas.
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    FreeHD Canada Delays Launch Date

    CBC encrypts their feeds to protect their and others copyrights. The do sell some programming abroad, carry some US programming, and NHL hockey. CBC NewsNow (current name of Newsworld), is scrambled exactly because it is a cable channel., yes which the providers pay for, even though it is in...
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    Shaw, multiple receivers & phone lines south of the border

    I am in Canada, and have four receivers on my Shaw Direct account and in my home, none connected to phone, with no request from the provider to connect them, nor any interruptions in programming.
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    The Future, The Truth, 4DTV, 410

    Knowing is a small part of it. Doing it is a whole other matter. First, they will gave to get Shaw to collect those receivers an buy them from them, and have them "refurbished" to re-program with C-band firmware (which getting written will cost), and clearing the U/A from the Shaw database...
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    TV Land

    TLC, as aired on Canadian providers, is the US version, probably with some programming substiuted, similar to A&E and Spike. AFAIK, DIY is the US version. The rest of the channels are names licensed from the US owners, except History, which is has no relation to the US channel, except they...
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    Canadian Attempts at an FTA service

    Rogers has nothing to do with either satellite provider. They are cable only (although do have broadcast stations in Toronto and elsewhere). They may have mentioned a free basic cable. Star Choice is now called Shaw Direct, and has since 1998 at least, been a subsiuary of Shaw communications. I...
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    Red Green Show

    Red Green has had at least three production homes. First they were made at CHCH Hamilton, and at CFPL London. I do not know where Global produced their episodes. CBC produced theirs at the CBC broadcast centre in Toronto. When it was produced ad CHCH and CFPL, it was syndicated to other...
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    How Do I Get Local Network from Other Areas?

    As a rule, stations do not broadcast on satellite, let alone FTA. Nor do stations usually stream online. What is up there are from either DBS provider, only for subscription within that market.
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    920 & 922

    In theory, 4DTV reciever could use the trickle guide, since I think that is how the 921 (StarChoce 4DTv model) get is guide data.
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    Von Weise reed switch trouble..

    When I needed a reed switch for my Thompson-Saginaw, I just got an NO magnetic burglar alarm window sensor from what was then my local Radio Shack (now The Source) store, and rigged it so it would open/close with the magnets on the wheel. I got a cheaper one that was in a smaller package and...
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    Time travelling receiver

    My FTA receiver has no real RTC. If I have it to auto set, it goes crazy, due to the wierd times on FTA transponders. I just leave the clock unset. I don't even think my provider receiver does, but they are consistant in sending their time in UTC with marginal error, and fixing an offset...
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    shawdirect/starchoice 4dtv?

    The 319/209 do 8PSK also, but only receive SD channels. Access is still there. I will have to check its Auth status. I heard the 605 will have "plug in DVR", like the Bell 6141.
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    Piece of a satellite cover found on Hilton Head beach

    As they call it at Ariane Space, a "Fairing". It is use for aerodynamics and to protect the satellite as it leaves Earth's atmosphere. When it has reached adequate altitde, it is jettisoned.
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