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Been talking a little about this over at Satforums. What do you guys think? Would you want one? If someone could actually get it de-commercialized and to the consumer for home use. A Hdd-200/201/1000 will be required. I myself don't even know it will work. But..........................
Here's a letter i sent to Mike Kohl. Who i heard works for Skyvision. And, we all know Skyvision came up with the Dsr 410 out of the blue. So who knows?
Hello,
We got word that Motorola is building a transcoder to allow cable head-ends still using Mpeg2 set-top boxes to utilize the new S2 DC2 feeds by transcoding the mpeg4 feeds into mpeg 2 . I'm thinking this transcoder could be slaved and intergrated into a 4dtv system seamlessly and with very little headaches. In fact it would operate no different than a current 4DTV system and HDD-200 decoder. Only, the transcoder feeds the data into Hdd-200/201/1000 instead of the 4DTV. Mapping of the channels will still be handled by the 4DTV. So when you land on the S2 channel shown in the 4DTV guide. The transcoder starts feeding the S2 data into the Hdd-200 and then the Hdd-200 displays the picture on the users TV. The AC3 audio can also be outputted by the HDD-200 to the users Home theater system. See this link for more information. http://irdrollout.com/StarzHD/includes/install_guide.pdf A de-commercialized transcoder will be ideal and most likely less expensive as the end users will not need 8 lnb inputs, aux relays for alarms and what not. Most likely it won't even need a front panel or even a on-screen display.
I realize subsciption cband is fading fast due to lost channels and very limited HD. But, the FTA hobby is growing as more and more people turn to Cband for High Quality HD feeds. I think those same people would pay for it too. If there was a means to access the current S2 DC2 lineup. Rather than just settling on Dishnet or DirecTV for their main TV fare. Maybe Skyvision could look into this?
Thank You
If anybody wants to throw around this idea to the programmers like STARZ, HBO, ect.......Feel free to email away.
I think we need the programmers behind this too. They might even collect a higher sub fee from us cband users. Because, i doubt Charlie and DirecTV pays them much per subscriber.
Here's a letter i sent to Mike Kohl. Who i heard works for Skyvision. And, we all know Skyvision came up with the Dsr 410 out of the blue. So who knows?
Hello,
We got word that Motorola is building a transcoder to allow cable head-ends still using Mpeg2 set-top boxes to utilize the new S2 DC2 feeds by transcoding the mpeg4 feeds into mpeg 2 . I'm thinking this transcoder could be slaved and intergrated into a 4dtv system seamlessly and with very little headaches. In fact it would operate no different than a current 4DTV system and HDD-200 decoder. Only, the transcoder feeds the data into Hdd-200/201/1000 instead of the 4DTV. Mapping of the channels will still be handled by the 4DTV. So when you land on the S2 channel shown in the 4DTV guide. The transcoder starts feeding the S2 data into the Hdd-200 and then the Hdd-200 displays the picture on the users TV. The AC3 audio can also be outputted by the HDD-200 to the users Home theater system. See this link for more information. http://irdrollout.com/StarzHD/includes/install_guide.pdf A de-commercialized transcoder will be ideal and most likely less expensive as the end users will not need 8 lnb inputs, aux relays for alarms and what not. Most likely it won't even need a front panel or even a on-screen display.
I realize subsciption cband is fading fast due to lost channels and very limited HD. But, the FTA hobby is growing as more and more people turn to Cband for High Quality HD feeds. I think those same people would pay for it too. If there was a means to access the current S2 DC2 lineup. Rather than just settling on Dishnet or DirecTV for their main TV fare. Maybe Skyvision could look into this?
Thank You
If anybody wants to throw around this idea to the programmers like STARZ, HBO, ect.......Feel free to email away.
I think we need the programmers behind this too. They might even collect a higher sub fee from us cband users. Because, i doubt Charlie and DirecTV pays them much per subscriber.
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As a person who appreciates the beauty of old TV technology, I'd glady bring out the old Dumont.
Those new transcoders from Motorola are the DSR-6050 and the DSR-6030. They are basically Motorola IRDs with DVB-S2 demodulators, mpeg4 decoders and mpeg2 encoders. They can receive DCII encapsulated in DVB-S2, and transcode mpeg4 into mpeg2. The transcoding bitrate and such is controlled completely by the uplink, so the cable operator has no control over the output bitrate. HBO and Starz now uplinks all HD services in mpeg4 DCII encapsulated in DVB-S2, offering 8 or so channels per transponder. The transcoders are the DSR-6050 which can transcode only one service (channel), and the DSR-6030 can transcode up to 3 services. The point of these units are for support for existing STBs or headend equipment that can't decode mpeg4. Since these are commercial, they only are made for one multiplex, and not for the home. NPS can use these units and reuplink as mpeg2, if they wanted to, but of course they won't. Both these transcoders also have gigE output for transport stream output over IP, unicast or multicast, and can output both original mpeg4 and transcoded mpeg2 over IP as well as DVB-ASI.
Motorola also has a multi-decrypt receiver (not transcoder) that can decrypt up to 24 services in a transport stream and output the whole transport stream unencrypted. The older model, the DSR-4400MD, only demodulates DCII QPSK and OQPSK. The newer model, the DSR-4410MD can demodulate DVB-S2 encapsulated DCII transport streams, and also output via gigE IP as well as DVB-ASI, the older DSR-4400MD only supported DVB-ASI. The DSR-4410MD can be used with HBO and Starz too. It'll output a completely decrypted transport stream of mpeg4 services.
I play with commercial satellite receivers as a hobby, mainly from Motorola. I enjoy when broadcasters change to fixed key so my IRDs can decryrpt those services, and I can output them via gigE IP multicast, as the two Motorola IRDs I use are DSR-4530s. I plug them into my Cisco 2960 switch with "ip igmp snooping querier" and can watch the transport streams with VLC and poke around with them with TSreader on my laptop.
I invested a lot of money in this stuff (almost all used ebay deals), but I just think it's so neat. I can talk about commercial IRDs with IP output all day!
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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For quite a while now, people with a VIP211k have been losing their recordings on their activated external HDDs... even when there's nothing physically wrong with HDD. I believe this is an intentional and underhanded tactic that Dish is pulling in an attempt to force users away from the VIP211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
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Has anyone subscribed to NBA League Pass for 2026-27 and try to link their account to NBA.com to stream League Pass? I purchased it for 2026-27, and when I linked, I got a message saying success, but then I receive an error that my linked subscription does not include the preseason games for NBA League Pass. Is that how it has always been? I know satellite doesn't have the preseason games on the NBA League Pass channels, but I thought that I was able to stream the preseason once I linked my account on NBA.com?
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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Nah, you just don't understand how ignore works, which is why you made your own NFL thread thinking there wasn't one
For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. 
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
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wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming youWTF… …What the Foxbat!
I know. Here's what Scott has in store for me if I get out of line:wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming you
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OMG to freaking funny
You're no fun.
I thought I would come here and find lots of complaints about the update to the dish anywhere mobile app, but am not seeing any. It used to look just like the desktop webpage. Now you can no longer filter by sports channels or movie channels. Plus that they made it look like a big button telephone and you see fewer channels in the screen which requires more scrolling. Yes I realize you can look at sports then select which sport you want to look at, I just liked being able to see all sporting events in the guide with all other channels being filtered out. Am I alone in the wilderness on this?
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Apple has finally released their Apple TV 4K with built-in Siri and a microphone so it can respond to your queries even if you don't have the remote. It also increases in price, to $299. I had been planning on updating my current Apple TV 4K streamers, but that's $600 for the two of them, and that's a pass at this point.
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
Apple TV 4K
Apple TV 4K. New Siri AI and hands-free control. Stunning picture and immersive HomePod surround sound. Works with your Apple and smart home devices.
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. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
they all do that anyways.. ever notice your cell phone slows down when you come up for an upgrade..
. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
You should have looked in the APP STORE instead.
