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Hmm I have the elite edition dual tuner and see no problems with anything.Only had it a few weeks so....Sure it 's not freezing because it's a single tuner and cant show and record at same time?Try any third party yet?may fix something ya just never know.I have more luck with 3rd party than factory as they keep up mostly where as the factory don't care.the 3rd party want to keep thier party going so they keep fixing things so they still have a job as long as sales are up.

One thing the Satellite's Names has changed. And almost have to refer to "The List" of locations, then wonder if that is the Satellite you are getting.
Then the AC-3, with the Audio Icons both up, can not get the sound!
I would like to do a 3rd Party, but I have no clue on that.
A fellow member has been trying a 'Channel Master" of converting Coolsat 5000 list into a Sonicview 360 Premier. And He is having a heck of a time getting it to work. So his buddy is trying the 'Channel Master' to work also.

But as far as 3rd party,,, I have looked around, but it is almost a "Become a member" before getting any Idea what you may be getting into. And If is is just a factory stuff, then I just wasted some money that is available with the manufature's own bins.

And I see you have the "Elite Edition" Which could be a whole different configuration.

Same unit just dual tuners.3rd party stuff sometimes fixes issues with factory firmware.Not allways.The sat files thou are still out of date.I plan on emailing them and seing whats up with that.

Robert_W said:

One thing the Satellite's Names has changed. And almost have to refer to "The List" of locations, then wonder if that is the Satellite you are getting.
Then the AC-3, with the Audio Icons both up, can not get the sound!
I would like to do a 3rd Party, but I have no clue on that.
A fellow member has been trying a 'Channel Master" of converting Coolsat 5000 list into a Sonicview 360 Premier. And He is having a heck of a time getting it to work. So his buddy is trying the 'Channel Master' to work also.

But as far as 3rd party,,, I have looked around, but it is almost a "Become a member" before getting any Idea what you may be getting into. And If is is just a factory stuff, then I just wasted some money that is available with the manufature's own bins.

And I see you have the "Elite Edition" Which could be a whole different configuration.

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I hadn't access to the Sonicview 360 Premier the past few days, but researched all the information to convert the Coolsat 5000 (ndf) channel list to a Sonicview 360 Premier (bin) channel list and download to the sonicview via a USB stick.

In the meantime this afternoon I used Channel Master and converted one of my Coolsat 5000 channel lists to a Pansat 2700a (bin) channel list and did a write to stb. It took 5 minutes to download to the Pansat receiver, all the information downloaded correctly to the Pansat, including the proper satellite and channel names, and USALs selection. The only thing that did not transfer was the Longitude and Latitude settings for USALs use, but only took two seconds to enter. I wasn't paying much attention and forgot to edit in the correct switch settings and LNB types for each satellite, so incorect settings information was transfered for a few satellites. That took me a few more minutes to correct.

I then checked out each satellite and numerous channels. It works great! Now I just have to try this on the Sonicview 360P. If that works, then at least you have a quick fix to updating your satellite names, transponders and even a ready made channel list.

One note to make; The export/write-to-stb and convert function of Channel Master limited the active transponders to 500 max, I had twice that so I had to delete a bunch. Also limited the amount of TV channels to 2001, had to delete a lot of my encrypted channels listed from blind scans but that's OK.

Let you know in a few days how I make out for converting and downloading a list for the Sonicview 360 Premier.

Bad news for the Sonicview 360 Premier and Channel Master. I tried everything, using channel master. Yes you can import your channels from the Sonicview 360 Premier, and edit as far as creating favorites list and deleting channels.

However if you add a satellite, transponder or channel, or if you try and change the satellite position or name in Channel Master. Then down load back to the receiver, it crashes the box. You then have to go through a complicated process and load a "clean up" file S/W, then reload the factory firmware to get the box back up and working.

What I did for a couple friends over the past few days was scan in all the FTA channels on 28 satellites using the Sonicview 360 Premier. I created a list of about 300 TV and 100 radio channels that are not encrypted. I sent them the channel list, it will download to the sonicview and not crash the box.

There were many channels that my Coolsat 5000 would get in at 90% quality, but the Sonicview attached to the same dish system would read the transponder and same quality but not scan in these certain channels. KFTL-CA on 72W AMC6 was one of the channels it did not like and would not scan in. I tried to add the channel using Channel Master. But in doing so the new edited file would crash the Sonicview, so were does this leave us.

The only good thing to come out of testing the Sonicview 360P was to create a usable channel list for others to download, but doesn't get all the channels that are availible to other brand receivers.

The Sonicview is also very difficult to work with USALs and the factory firmware. 3rd party firmware fixes the USALs issue, but I wonder about the legality of installing this. I was told it's OK as long as it does not unscramble providers programming. Can anyone comment on the legal issue of using 3rd party firmware??????

For me, I am giving the guy back his Sonicview receiver I borrowed for testing and sticking with my Coolsat 5000, it works for True FTA and its legal.

I would post the TRUE FTA Channel list for the Sonicview 360 Premier. But do not know if there is a section on this forum for zipped file channel lists, or if such things are allowed. It doesn't contain feeds that are not listed at lynsat.