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Last reply Jul 14, 2008 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Jadeworld (TVB) on Dish?

Anyone knows if the Chinese channels Jadeworld from Hong Kong is on Dish Network? I have to subscribe to DirecTV to get it, but the other day I saw a big ad on the local newspaper (in Los Angeles) saying that it came with Dish Network. I couldn't find it on Dish website. Anyone knows if this is something new? Thanks!

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Need

Dec 6, 2007

Well, my parents only watched TVB channels. We don't live near Chinese communities, so our cable company doesn't carry Jadeworld. I have Dish for everything else and DirecTV only for Jadeworld. I think it was like $36.xx a month. The AD I saw was for $29.95 a month with Jadeworld TVB USA 5 channels (same as the DTV one) on Dish Network.

I don't care if Dish charges the same as DTV, if Jadeworld is on Dish I will get rid of that stupid DirecTV DVR. It was horrible (both software and hardware) compared to the 622.

I don't have the Ad so I can't scan it. Saw it at a doctor's office.

sbsi

Dec 9, 2007

Need said:
Well, my parents only watched TVB channels. We don't live near Chinese communities, so our cable company doesn't carry Jadeworld. I have Dish for everything else and DirecTV only for Jadeworld. I think it was like $36.xx a month. The AD I saw was for $29.95 a month with Jadeworld TVB USA 5 channels (same as the DTV one) on Dish Network.

I don't care if Dish charges the same as DTV, if Jadeworld is on Dish I will get rid of that stupid DirecTV DVR. It was horrible (both software and hardware) compared to the 622.

I don't have the Ad so I can't scan it. Saw it at a doctor's office.

Is it possible to have Dish and Direct at the same time?

Need

Dec 10, 2007

sbsi said:
Is it possible to have Dish and Direct at the same time?

Yes. I got both, but I want to get rid of the DirecTV box. I have the original DVR by DirecTV and it is leagues behind the Dish DVR.

I am also checking out some IPTV option. Anyone got any experience with gektv.com?

aegrotatio

Dec 12, 2007

Several of my relatives in New York City had 36" Ku-band dishes and branded receivers (not generic ones) to receive Jadeworld programming up to the late 1990s.
DirecTV bought out all those Jadeworld customers and converted them to DirecTV systems with Phase-2 dishes.
New customers of course get Phase-3 dishes or Ka/Ku if they want HD.
I don't know the terms of the contract that DirecTV has with Jadeworld but you can find more about it in DirecTV Group's financials.

The old Ku-band Jadeworld service was at least as expensive as DirecTV's new package.

On a side note, you don't need WorldDirect for Jadeworld but you can see WorldDirect dishes all over NYC. It's rare to see a SuperDISH in NYC for some reason--looking in any direction you see hundreds of dishes of all kinds but few, if any, SuperDISHes.
Jadeworld is entrenched in the NYC Chinese viewing market.

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sbsi

Dec 12, 2007

aegrotatio said:
Several of my relatives in New York City had 36" Ku-band dishes and branded receivers (not generic ones) to receive Jadeworld programming up to the late 1990s.
DirecTV bought out all those Jadeworld customers and converted them to DirecTV systems with Phase-2 dishes.
New customers of course get Phase-3 dishes or Ka/Ku if they want HD.
I don't know the terms of the contract that DirecTV has with Jadeworld but you can find more about it in DirecTV Group's financials.

The old Ku-band Jadeworld service was at least as expensive as DirecTV's new package.

On a side note, you don't need WorldDirect for Jadeworld but you can see WorldDirect dishes all over NYC. It's rare to see a SuperDISH in NYC for some reason--looking in any direction you see hundreds of dishes of all kinds but few, if any, SuperDISHes.
Jadeworld is entrenched in the NYC Chinese viewing market.

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That was 1994-2000 something. Those satalite dish only allow you to watch Jade and nothing else. I know someone showing off those satalite dish back in the 90s. They claim those dish get the new new series from HK and it was a BIG LIE, the same old shows from one year ago.

Do you remember how much TVB charge at the time? I guess, $29.99 for two channels, East and West.

aegrotatio

Dec 14, 2007

sbsi said:
That was 1994-2000 something. Those satalite dish only allow you to watch Jade and nothing else. I know someone showing off those satalite dish back in the 90s. They claim those dish get the new new series from HK and it was a BIG LIE, the same old shows from one year ago.

Do you remember how much TVB charge at the time? I guess, $29.99 for two channels, East and West.

Yes I think it was that price.
The dishes appeared to be the cheapest possible Ku-band dishes ever made. The receivers would only pick up Jadeworld. I didn't see the point.
In fact DirecTV did not allow new customers for Jadeworld until every last Jadeworld customer was converted to the DirecTV platform. It took over 3 years in NYC before my in-laws could order new service if I recall correctly. The other family and friends were upgraded slowly.

In the huge NYC Chinese diaspora they went through thousands of videotapes shipped over from HK. It was a huge, undermet market, and those Jadeworld dishes were everywhere in NYC.
Now it's DirecTV Phase-2 and Phase-3 dishes.
Almost no SuperDISH systems to be found, which is bizarre.
Maybe DirecTV made the right decision with Jadeworld?

couchpotato88

Jan 14, 2008

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Need said:
Yes. I got both, but I want to get rid of the DirecTV box. I have the original DVR by DirecTV and it is leagues behind the Dish DVR.

I am also checking out some IPTV option. Anyone got any experience with gektv.com?

Yeah it's really great my parents just got gektv. The programs are much newer than those on Jadeworld. I think they are showing on the same schedule as Hong Kong. I installed my parents with a wireless wall plug- no problems yet!

Need

Jan 14, 2008

couchpotato88 said:
Yeah it's really great my parents just got gektv. The programs are much newer than those on Jadeworld. I think they are showing on the same schedule as Hong Kong. I installed my parents with a wireless wall plug- no problems yet!

Sounds good! Thanks for the info!

kenikole

Jul 13, 2008

I would like to install GEKTV, but don't want to have 2 cable modems ( one for tv and the other for internet). You said, you installed GEKTV for your parents with a wireless wall plug. WHat is that? Is that the same as a wireless router? I have Comcast cable internet, but the cable modem only has one ethernet port. What do you recommend?

Need

Jul 14, 2008

kenikole said:
I would like to install GEKTV, but don't want to have 2 cable modems ( one for tv and the other for internet). You said, you installed GEKTV for your parents with a wireless wall plug. WHat is that? Is that the same as a wireless router? I have Comcast cable internet, but the cable modem only has one ethernet port. What do you recommend?

I installed gektv a few months ago. It is 10 times better than the Directv version and 2 times cheaper. On weekdays, there are like 6 to 8 TVB series on demand so you can watch anytime, and they repeat on the weekends in case you missed them. It also got the current TVB series playing in Hong Kong for $0.55 an episode, but you get $10 to $20 credit per month (depends on which package you subscribe). So every month you get to watch 1 to 2 series from Hong Kong at the same time they play in HK. The news channel is 24 hours live news from HK.

As for internet, you don't really need wireless. We asked about wireless, but tech support said they don't support wireless ethernet adapter. We tried to plug in an old one we got, but it doesn't seem to recognize it. We just run a long ethernet cable from our router to the unit. So you just need to get a router for your modem if you are able to run a long cable to near your TV.

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reubenray

Last reply 4 minutes ago · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Laptop Shutting Off When On Battery?

Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.

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arlo

31 minutes ago

A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.

dishstaller

4 minutes ago

arlo said:
That's all I got.

That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks

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Last reply 13 minutes ago · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Starlink Router question

I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

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b4pjoe

Saturday at 2:12 PM

TRG said:
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.

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HipKat

Saturday at 11:07 PM

TRG said:
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc

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Foxbat

Sunday at 12:44 AM

TRG said:
…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.

harshness

Sunday at 11:46 AM

If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

Starlink V5 Is Here: What RVers Need to Know

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Foxbat

13 minutes ago

Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.

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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.

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At least 64 dead in Spanish passenger train collision

Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:24 AM

dishstaller said:
Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.

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