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Whew... Boy, things sure can get heated in here at times. A few years back, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Bob Cooper (Coop) - the father of TVRO. We discussed the late 80's and early 90's timeframe of the satellite industry. Something that Coop said still is true to...

Macclatom - Where abouts are you located? If there is a "SatelliteGuy" who lives close by, they might be willing to drop by for a coffee and to check out your setup to see what will work for you ;)

Hahaha.. So True.. I don't think that he could watch tv on Direct lately if he wanted to. It sounds like Chicago has had some pretty bad rains.. Our local radio newcast this morning even mentioned the Chicago rain this morning.

Does the receiver ID on screen match what is printed on the back of the receiver? When my model 920 receiver exhibited what you've described, the battery had died and the unit had lost it's ID.

tvropro can elaborate a bit, but I'm getting the impression that the seller is going to stand behind his product. I will be buying one as soon myself.

Tvropro was referring to the USBBDM cable. There may be a quality control issue with current batch.

That looks like a nice dish.. Are there still cables running from the dish into the house? If you are interested in watching some FREE tv (100% legal) , you could definitely make use of that dish to tune into the signals direct from the satellite. Free-To-Air receivers are very...

I have been a "pizza" dish subscriber for quite a few years. Many years before, I was a cable subscriber. The pizza dish (Bell) will go out occasionally, but only in the heaviest of downpours. The C-Band dish never goes out. When cable would go out, it would be for a much longer period...

Maybe I'm a little bit off of topic here, but there IS a set of networks up on C-Band on digicipher in Zero Key mode... Every time I watch them, it messes up the clock on my 922 receiver until I go back to X4, but I don't mind. I can't be the only person who knows about them. I realize...

Me too! Handy little tv with built-in ATSC tuner. I got it for $58 from a surplus store..

Yes.. This is likely the longest running DirecTV discussion in the 4DTV area ever.. By now Iceberg normally would have moved it to the DirecTV area.. :rolleyes:

My 922 time has been messed up a bit lately.. I think that it has to do with the time change within the past couple of weeks. I've watched some of the FP mode channels on the 4DTV and have had the time change by several hours. After I go back to the X4 satellite, it normally corrects...

I'm not quite following the Math. 10800 subs.. 800 were existing H2H subs, 10k were converted from NPS to SRL subs. What about the existing SRL/Skyvision 4DTV subs? It doesn't seem like they were added into the equation here.. If all we've got left is 10800 people using H2H, I...

I have a couple Starchoice receivers here that I've been tinkering with. I haven't put more than 30 mins worth of effort into it yet, but I haven't been able to convert either one. I've manually tuned to the correct freq, etc, left it overnight - still no go.

You will need a 4DTV receiver of some sort. But to answer your question as to whether the 4DTV programming is available to Canadians. The answer is "no". BUT. The SkyVision and SRL 800 #'s work from Canada :) I am subscribed using a US address. I've never had any issues calling...

I get the RTV mux on my 7.5 ft SAMI. Last fall I had to take the wrenches to the dish and get it completely tweaked and focused for the channels to come in. I ended up loosening up the 3 panels and pulling on them until I had the signal focused perfectly on the LNB. I really don't know...

Hello Hutchie, If you go to the SkyVision site, they have a few different sets of instructions on their page for receivers that are in different states of disarray.. skyvison.com Look on the right-hand side of the page, and you'll see some Master Reset instructions. I'm sorry to...

I unfortunately don't really expect to see that happen either. The C-Band industry has been abandoned. The smaller dish crew have done a good job of building receivers with all of those PVR, timer, guide functions in them, and have got the majority if C-Banders woo'd over to their evil small...

The Nebraska PBS stations aren't that strong. My 7.5ft Sami dish doesn't get enough signal to get a constant signal lock. I get broken-up video only. If anybody is hunting for those stations, you likely will need a pretty big dish to get then.

Good Day Robert, I'm a little bit short of time at the moment, so I haven't got time to go through all of the steps required to set it up, but the one step I wanted to make sure you avoid if possible is the "Master Reset". It is possible that your receiver, depending how it is currently...

That does it... That scared me enough. I'm pulling my VC2 board out tonight. I don't need to have an outdated board take out my good 922 receiver. For how few times Espn or Weather go into fixed key, it isn't worth the risk to me.

Today is the 22nd. A lot of people have a billing cycle with The Programming Centre that expires on the 22nd. I'm not at home right now to see if my MTV mini-sub that was supposed to expire today has gone away or not. I checked Websams and it shows as still being valid on my account.

I don't know if everybody wants to participate or not, but I've edited my tagline to show that my 4DTV Model 922 has been converted to the 4160 EMM provider using the alternative method. Maybe people could update their taglines to show that EMM provider they are using, just so that we know who...

I'm using a 7.5ft dish with a 45 degree Echostar brand LNB. tvropro - do you think that I'd gain much by going to a lower temp LNB?

Those channels are a challenge for me on my 7.5ft Sami.. I used to get them a couple years back, but these days the signal is so borderline that I only get glitchy video. It might be dish size coming into play.