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2 weeks ago I attended a fall fair. Lots of vendors were at the fair selling their wares, and one of the vendors was selling Bell HD TV... I looked at the demo that they had (an HD DVR, playing a pre-recorded show). The "HD" video was less than impressive.. I have an over-the-air...

It's been a while since I've seen a Random Act Of Kindness posted here, so I'm going to do one. I have a Visionsat PVR receiver that I am going to give away. Here are the specifics.. I realize that many people these days are suffering from bad economic times. I would like to give away...

Following is my review of the Manhattan RS-1933 receiver. I am going to start by saying that the 2 main features that attracted me to the Manhattan RS-1933 receiver is the ability to blind scan DVB-S2 signals, as well as the ability to decode AAC audio. The Manhattan receiver delivers very...

Hi Everyone, A co-worker of mine who has given up on "fta" because his eye-patch software no longer will give him free Dishnet has given me his Viewsat Pro PVR receiver. (He paid $200 for it just 3 years ago). I've been trying to play with the receiver a bit to scan the C and Ku...

I know that I will never ever ever catch up to Iceberg, but I finally have reached Post # 1000 What does a person say in Post # 1000? Thanks to Scott G for running the forum. For some of these reasons: 1 - If it weren't for the forum, I would have likely never gotten to know so many...

Does anybody know if the FOX channel that is on 99 West C-Band shows the standard commercials, or if it is a set of commercials that are destined for San Juan, PR? I am located in Canada, and would like to watch the SuperBowl with the US Network commercials, instead of the "CTV" Canadian...

4DTV is in the last hours of it's life. It is going to be sad to see that good friend die. I am going to miss having access to the Master Feeds. I want to publicly say "THANK YOU" to SRL and SkyVision for all of their hard work in getting the X4 option for us to continue to use our 4DTV...

On Wednesday night's Sat-Talk Live, Mike Kohl discussed the idea of doing a master reset, BEFORE December 24th (ish) in order to clean up the TDT count on a receiver. I know that a TDT count of 1920 means that the receiver is FULL and requires a Master Reset. I am toying with the idea of...

On Nov.13 2010 unsuspecting shoppers got a big surprise while enjoying their lunch. Over 100 participants in this awesome Christmas Flash Mob. This is a must see!

Are there Satellite Trade shows any more? I'm talking about the type that Bob Cooper used to organize back in the old days. Somewhere that they show all of the latest receivers and technologies, but are not limited to showing just the commercial DBS services such as Direct and Dish. I...

For months and months I've been struggling with my SuperJack (which I have started calling SuperJunk) actuator. It has been losing counts badly, and I'd cringe each time I'd have to move the dish to G1 to get the guide info, because it likely was going to stall part way down. I was visiting...

I have Rogers Cable internet service. I've used it for years. I am a huge satellite enthusiast and have been watching satellite tv since 1988. Yesterday I received an 'exclusive offer' from the cable company. They are going to GIVE me a free PVR box, and 3 months worth of service...

A couple years ago I bought a model 920 4DTV receiver off of ebay. I was told that the battery had been replaced "a year ago". That would have made the battery 3 years old when it died last night. I'm thinking that the battery was NOT replaced. I'm sitting here this morning, looking at...

Last Friday I was in Sudbury Ontario (Canada) for business.. I was on my way out of town and noticed a shop that had 4 or 5 dishes on the roof with "Free To Air Satellite" and 'Free TV" words on them. Out of curiosity I stopped in, just to see what they had for equipment - I was hoping to...

Not quite "FTA", but close enough that I'm posting this in the Free-To-Air section. Bell proposes new "freesat" service as part of innovative public policy solutions to benefit Canadian consumers and broadcasting industry Quoting the press release -> OTTAWA, April 29 2009 -- Bell...

XM Talk Radio 165 has been playing the same news broadcast for the past 2 days at the top of the hour. Has the person in charge of the news broadcast gone on vacation? Last Christmas I can remember hearing the Dec 24th news on the 25th and 26th.. I wonder how many days they'll let that...

I'm doing some cleaning out of my storage area. One thing that I no longer need is my good old General Instrument 2400 receiver and antenna positioner. One very important note about this GI2400 that I want to be completely upfront about is that it no longer powers the LNB. I had a tiny...

I have a Stab HH90 motor that I have successfully used with a modified Alphastar 31" dish. It worked fine, but I have since given away that dish to a needy family and I'm looking to buy a new dish for myself. Right now I'm using a fixed DirecPC dish for Galaxy 18, but am itching to get...

OK - I just had to share my excitement for an FTA install that I am going to be doing this upcoming Sunday afternoon. It has been in the works for a while and has been delayed by weather, and by me travelling for work for weeks on end, but this weekend the install is finally going to happen...

I've been trying to tune in the PBS channels on AMC3 Ku all evening. I've managed to find The Patient Channel, Tip TV, and The Muslim channels on AMC3, but I can't get signal from 12179 V 30000 Symbol rate. I've tried a different wire and have the same issue. Could somebody confirm for me...

While going through some old boxes, I found this advertisement for the Playboy channel, talking about scrambling and how to continue to receive Playboy. The advertisement was in a box that got damp at one point, that's the reason for the 'stained' look :)

It's been a while since I've posted this request, and I figure it's time to try again :) I am looking for old C-Band Satellite Radio broadcasts. I am doing research for a book on the C-Band industry from 1986 to 1991. In particular I am looking for any Keith Lamonica FM America...

I had a DirecPC dish given to me. It's the 76cm model. Wow - What a cool dish! I bought a multi-LNB holder that I'm mounting to it. I've been able to get good useable signal from 72 to 101 on the dish in a fixed position :) My plan is to get 97, 87 and 72 all on the same reflector - and...

I'd appreciate any sort of feedback as to how well those Sonic Voom headphones work for AC3 decoding. Do they stay in sync with the video properly? Once they're set up and working, is there any tweaking required? The reason I'm asking all of these questions is because I'm looking at the...

I was looking at some stuff on youtube and came upong this video. It shows an animation of the spy satellite being shot down. The computer graphic they show to represent a satellite looks an awful lot like a C-Band dish or an uplink to me :) YouTube - Navy Missile Hits Spy Satellite on...