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    New to FTA, Found dish

    I see, thanks Pro96
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    The Dish Documentary

    Yes, that was the coolest part of the show, how they spun the dishes out. The lengths’ they go to undercover to put the dish up. Seems like the police cracks down every once in awhile on them.
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    New to FTA, Found dish

    Welcome Midnight, this is the best place to learn it all from the pro's doing this. Not to change the subject or anything, I noticed Muzak was labeled on the Dish. I've worked with this vendor here on the west coast in one of the hospitals I support. They provide music streaming services for...
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    The Dish Documentary

    Hey guys, it’s been awhile since I posted on Satellite Guys, but I’ve been lurking around from time to time. Has anybody checked out the” The Dish” Documentary, not the movie with Sam Neil at Parks “that one was good also, I also watched that one recently” This is about Satellite...
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    Intelsat Dish Farm Napa

    Hi Sherrel, I'm actually the one who started this thread awhile back. I never realized how big the ABS-CBN network was until now. I've actually seen the ABS-CBN, TFC "The Filipino Channel" studios in Manila many times when visiting relatives. They have some huge Satellite Dishes as well at the...
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    OTA Antenna Poll

    Thats pretty neat Magic Static , so those Antennas from Lava that claim 150 miles, is that just Snake Oil Technology?
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    OTA Antenna Poll

    Larry1 when you talk about Deep Fringe, what do you mean by that term, I've seen that term on the Channel Master 4228 Antenna.
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    OTA Antenna Poll

    Ice Whats the proper term for describing HDTV Antennas?? UHF/VHF Antenna?
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    OTA Antenna Poll

    What are you guys using for HDTV antennas? I'm curious if any of those long range direct antennas work like the ones from Lava, Vortex. I know they claim 150 miles, but what are you really getting max?
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    HDHomerun, DVBViewer Clear QAM and OTA

    Two HD Homerun tuners and Happauge DVB-S running Just my 0.02 cents on how I'm using my HD Homerun tuners with Windows 7, EYETV and VLC I've been running HD Homerun tuner 2nd Gen and the newer Dual ATSC tuner on Comcast QAM signal for about 6 months now. I have the 1st tuner on OTA antenna...
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    Free 6ft fiberglass dish with stand **Sacramento area**

    This is pickup only in the Sacramento area. I'm moving and can't use it. This was supposed to be my project, but never got around to getting it up and running. Free to good home. You will need a pickup truck. The dish measures about 6 1/2 feet, comes with heavy duty stand. I even have the LNB...
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    IVI Review

    Are you doing allot of Torrent downloads by any chance or serving as a host site? being on Comcast, they have a habit of chopping down your bandwidth, bandwidth throttling seems to be popular with Comcast. I would have a QOS "Quality of Service" check done by Comcast to verify things look good...
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    IVI Review

    Interesting site :up Looks like a promising service, I wonder if they are getting the channels via another cable service or over the air, they look to me over the air channels and just feed Silicon Dust style to the customer. I wonder if they will provide international channels in the future...
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    Roku..Need some info..please

    Roku vs Western Digital Media Plus How does the Roku and Western Digital Media player plus stack up against each other, I hear good things on both of these. The Roku seems to have some supported paid streams you can access, and the Western Digital just has Netflix and Pandora only, but supports...
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    New FTA service with 20 english channels

    How to connect to FreeDBS This is funny, finally some real info YouTube - FreeDBS Equipment & broadcast first look! :p
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    Dell Knowingly Sold 11.8 Million Computers with A 97% Failure Rate

    Cap Issues, not just Dell Working in a major west coast hospital, I've seen my share of the Dell Optiplex 270's. some GX280's capacitor issues. We've had sh*t loads, I'm talking at least 400 to 500 GX270's motherboards replaced. Dell actually stepped up to the plate back in early 2000 and sent...
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    Piece of a satellite cover found on Hilton Head beach

    Where's the rest As someone posted on the article in the comment section, what happen to the rest of the Satellite?? did they retire this Sat, was it a communication satellite for TV?
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    G15 troubles

    Gizmodo's Post on the Zombie Sat I like how the media is starting to use the Zombie description of G15. The Attack of the Zombie Satellite - Galaxy 15 - Gizmodo
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    WDTV vs. VLC

    Firmware hacks Since I bought my WDTV Live few months back, been trying to figure out what to do with my First Gen WDTV box. These two sites have Firmware hacks you can do to it to make them network-able via USB Wireless or USB to LAN connector. wdtv_firmware_hacks [WDTV WIKI] B-RAD...
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    US TV Households Cutting Cable cord

    Yea, I think I've seen this guy before in my local stores. they all have the same parrot.
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    US TV Households Cutting Cable cord

    I've noticed this already at my local computer store "Fry's Electronics" here on the west coast, as you enter the store, they have the Comcast guys on one side and the DIRECTV guys on the other side standing around like used car sales men trying to sell you the bundle rates to lock you in for a...
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    US TV Households Cutting Cable cord

    You know, not to promote PlayOn or anything, but I'm actually able to view allot of ESPN Web content, recorded content "non live of course" but ESPN news, features, sports talk shows of the type" Keeps me current with whats what on sports news.
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    US TV Households Cutting Cable cord

    Interesting read this morning on Yahoo, I've done the same from my local cable provider, just using OTA and FTA and PlayOn and Dish Network for the Mrs. with no contract. Nearly 800,000 U.S. TV households 'cut the cord,' report says - Yahoo! News
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    Confirmed Boxing Clottey vs Pacman

    Hummmm Some fight that was..Manny out boxed, out classed Clottey, good thing you guys watched it free. Hopfully the Mayweather and Mosely fight will be also carried on Azteca.
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    Confirmed Boxing Clottey vs Pacman

    Pacman Party I've been doing Pacman parties for awhile, this time a friend of mine is hosting the party, we all just chip in $10 bucks for the HBO PPV fight that covers the $50 PPV fee and food and drinks for the host. But I read on Facebook just now on the Pacman and Clotty member page...