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It'd be a nice alternative to the HORRIFICALLY over priced 4DTV receivers. A lot of cable channels are DVB now and most FTA receivers have a CAM thing already. Just needs a company like Skyvision or NPS to set it up, but I don't think anyone is doing that yet, or at least not in this country.

Thanks mate, I've found the position but I'm only getting two channels, AMG on C and LATV on Ku, and those are barely coming in at 50% with a perfectly aligned dish and a pretty clear shot. May just be my cheapie receiver acting up again... I'm thinking of getting a new Pansat one of these days.

When I set up my digital FTA system a year ago I didn't really bother scanning Galaxy 25. It was one of the last satellites that dish was pointed at when I stopped using it back in 1999, but there were more interesting things to do and I forgot to check it out. The other day I decided to add the...

This gave me an idea for an interesting project. Since there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a standalone AC-3 decoder, it might be nice to build one. The Texas Instruments PCM1720E IC can handle both AC-3 and MPEG-2 and only costs $4.90, which could make the entire system less than $20. I'm...

I must be one of the lucky ones then. The last receiver I bought from eBay was clean, even though I later found out the fellow who sold it to me was a pirate who had been previously prosecuted by DishNetwork...

Long winded, inaccurate, and annoying. :rolleyes: A new record, even for eBay.

I want this one (but can't afford it right now)... I saw a demonstration of one recently and the features and picture quality blew away every other receiver I've seen. The nearly four hundred dollar price tag is a bit steep though, at least for a tightwad like me.

Sorry then :( <Kicks self in head repeatedly.>

Sorry then :( <Kicks self in head repeatedly.>

I have a cute little 5" CRT that I carry out whenever I need to line something up-it only cost me $10 on clearance at Sears. It works pretty well, runs on batteries or AC, weighs about 2 pounds, A/V inputs. The brightness and contrast are great, even in black and white the signal and quality...

Motorized. One thing that seems to shock people about this hobby is just how many satellites there are. You can have a fixed dish permanantly pointed at one satellite, or you can have a motorized dish that can point itself automatically at any satellite in the sky. If you don't know what...

Lucky! There are probably only about 10 OTA stations in the entire state of West Virginia, there's a repeater for one (WDTV) about 12 miles away, and I can barely get it-on a good day, with a high gain log-periodic antenna, from a hilltop.... May explain the ungodly number of old BUDs in the...

Its kind of sad that a pay TV service can be censored in America-even an adult one, I thought they were only allowed to do that with over-the-air channels?