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My super expensive Toshiba TRX-2000 had the backlight burn out this evening. The reciever originally cost me a whopping 30$ on ebay. Now I have to decide whether I look for another receiver or try and repair it. Mostly it's an issue of not wanting to reprogram all my actuator positions into...

I just puchased a second Skystar 2 PCI card off of ebay. At first I will place it in my old Mac to play around with it but the permanent home will be the PC which is attached to my TV so I will have two DVB cards in it. The plan is to use one of them as a slave off of the STB which...

Here are the settings I successfully used to stream video from from my PC at home to my work. I'll call the machine at home the server and work machine the client. Software needed on the client: - VLC (free) Software needed on the server: - VLC - TSReader (full version $99) or DVBDream 1.3a...

I noticed something interesting the other day with my setup. I have two receivers connected to two dishes. One controls my Ku dish and the other controls the C band dish. To enable the Ku receiver to also see what the C band receiver is on I connected the C receiver IF loopthrough to one port...

Just out of curiosity, I was wondering if anyone knows who makes the Fortec Star 1.2m dish? I imagine it is an asian OEM of some kind but I don't know for sure. The reason I ask is that yesterday I picked up a new 1.2m dish from a local retailer for a good price which is absolutely identical...

I just purchased a used Fortec Lifetime Ultra for our upstairs bedroom but haven't yet received it. Given how little it cost, I'm thinking about getting a second one to place with the main setup downstairs so I can have separate receivers for my bud and motorized Ku dish. My other DVB receiver...

For the past little while - I won't say how long, it's embarrassing - I've been having issues following the arc with my motorized Ku dish. After being on the roof several times mucking about with both the dish and (desperately) motor elevation and being at a loss to what was wrong, I finally...

I'm wondering if anyone has any advice/experience with decoding of a 4:2:2 HD signal. I belive this is what I'm looking at, although I'm not sure, as I see the same artefacts on the decoded stream as I do on 4:2:2 SD when viewed on a 4:2:0 only receiver (my Pansat). For reference the stream...

A fairly long post. Feel free to comment on or critique it. I thought it might be useful for those looking to put together DVB card based systems to share the details of my setup and some of my initial observations of the software I've used. I spent a couple of months trying to...

I was just given an old, but never used, Chaparral Polarotor feedhorn with attached LNB. This is the first piece of the C-band system that I am trying to put together to complement my Ku system. My question is in regards to the specifications of the LNB that is attached. There is no part number...

I'm about to add a C-band dish to my setup and will need to obtain a feedhorn for it. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with both C/Ku and C only feedhorn performance differences, if any for C-band. As I already have a separate dish (90cm) for Ku, I don't necessarily need a dual band...

For the past month I've been looking into what would be needed to add a PC based sat receiver to my satellite system to allow me to view 4:2:2 feeds as I am a sports wild feed addict (the only thing I really watch on TV these days). I have found some information on other forums (which shall be...