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I would like to get some opinions out there on which Over-The-Air receiver or receivers is best. I know the LG 4200A model receiver used to be one of the best a year or two ago. Unfortunately, this receiver is a rare find on Ebay and whenever it does pop up, it ends up on an auction that closes...

Is there really any difference between using an LNBF and a Feedhorn and LNB assembly that are separated out? Does the LNBF have to still use a servo motor or is that part eliminated in the integrated feedhorn (LNBF)?

I live a short distance from a small community that had a small town cable company in the early 90s. As time progressed, the cable company went under and is no longer in business. Now, Their C-band dishes and equipment lie dormant at the old headend of the cable company. I'm pretty sure that...

In the United Kingdom, a faulty OTA receiver apparently screwed up and sent a distress signal frequency out that was picked up by an emergency rescue satellite. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060115/wl_uk_afp/britaindefencemedia_060115155321 Do you think the same thing could happen with one...

Today around 1:00PM CDST, I noticed on my affiliate NBC station that multicasts the Tube out of Huntsville, AL (WAFF 48) that there were multiple interruptions of music videos for some stupid U.S. Virgin Islands commercial. In the middle of the Ray Charles music video, he was singing and all of...

It seems like there are fewer threads and replies being posted on this forum, since it has already been 25 days since the demise of Voom. Does that mean that changes are in store for this forum? I know that there was talk about eliminating this forum in favor of having one dedicated solely to...

I don't know if this is the place to ask this, but here it goes: Over at the high def forum http://www.highdefforum.com , there is a voom forum that I would like to be a part of. Does anybody know of someone I can contact to be able to post in that forum? I have already registered and I was...

The Lyngsat website has been updated with new information concerning the Rainbow-1 satellite. It shows that transponders 1, 3, 5, and 7 are in use, while 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, and 24 have no data on them. Gallery, Rush and Majestic are on number 1. Rave, Guy, and HDNews are on number 3...

I don't really want to shell out $100 dollars for a DVB receiver to receive only certain channels I want to get like the music channels off of Echostar satellites and the NASA channel. It had been mentioned on the forum somewhere that a deactivated Dish receiver would be able to pick up those...

There's been plenty of speculation that Voom21 may continue to thrive on Rainbow-1 after the shutdown and be in the "clear." It does make sense in some way because of the fact that there have been rumors about Echostar now wanting Voom's programming after obtaining their satellite. It would be...

Wasn't it announced that Cablevision was supposed to have an important board meeting today? Has anybody heard anything about this meeting and if it has something to do in relation to the shutdown of Voom?

I was wondering what it would be like in the final days of Voom. Will there be certain channels going offline line one by one or will it all vanish at once? Will there be certain channels going offline during the last week of April or will they go off one by one on April 29th and April 30th...

I've looked all through the satellite charts and see that all the satellites are arranged at the equator from East to West. Since both the eastern and western directions are blocked by both my house and trees on each side. Could it be safe to say that it's not worth the extra investment until I...

With all the talk and news going on concerning the newer compression technology with Voom, Echostar, and DirectTv making the necessary plans to switch to MPEG-4, is there any possibility that C-band will ultimately head this direction as well. If so, would this also be what eventually takes down...

I just recently got a rotator for my Voom system around the time that the SuperDMA reached my area. Unfortunately, those mapped on my box are far out of reach to get a signal at all. I do receive channels not mapped into my box that I scanned in from different locations. My question is this...

Anybody tried AMC-12 at 67.5 degrees West to see if anything is in the clear? Right now on Lyngsat it is listed in the testing phase. I figured since it was being tested that they might be feeding unscrambled and unencrypted data to the satellite to fine-tune and configure it before shifting it...

I was wondering how Voom is going to add Rainbow 2 to their satellite service if the service stays running and a deal is made to keep programming on Rainbow-1. Since the Lnb on Voom dishes are DSS lnbs that are on a circular polarization for Rainbow-1 being a circular polarization satellite, how...

I was looking on Lyngsat's website and checking out the channels on Galaxy 10R satellite at 123 degrees West. On transponder number 14 at 3992 H it shows Showtime and movie channel promos but it also shows a separate channel for the promos and for Showtime. Is this channel really in FTA on that...

I know that the tuner section on the Voom STB only uses 8VSB decoding for Over-The-Air broadcasts. My question is that will this be able to decode digital signals running through cable tv wire? I'm just wondering since I read some things on the internet about certain cable providers using 8vsb...

As far as I know, C-Band dishes since the 1970's have always been huge dishes. It makes sense to me that a high frequency signal in the upper GHZ range would need more surface to get a usable signal thus requiring a lot of metal surface for to collect the signal and bounce it back into the...