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March 2010 Programming Highlights
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The Eclipse
Premieres Wednesday, March 24th at 8:00pm followed by encore presentations at 9:30pm and 11:00pm
Starring: Ciarán Hinds, Aidan Quinn, Iben Hjejle
Directed by Conor McPherson
Tony Award-nominated writer/director Conor McPherson ("Shining City," "The Seafarer") brings his dramatic powers to the
screen in horror-love story hybrid. Ciarán Hinds (Munich, There Will Be Blood) plays a widower living in an Irish seaside
town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. When he volunteers at a local
literary festival, his life converges with an author of supernatural fiction (Iben Hjejle, High Fidelity) and a self-obsessed
novelist (Aidan Quinn, Legends Of The Fall). The love triangle engenders passion and rage, and Hinds' character finds
himself increasingly haunted by apparitions too vivid to be mere nightmares.
The Warlords
Premieres Wednesday, March 31st at 8:15pm followed by encore presentations at 10:15pm and 12:15am
Starring: Jet Li, Andy Alu, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xu Jinglei
Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, WARLORDS stars Jet Li as General
Pang, who barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, and joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu
(Andy Lau) and Wu Yang (Takeshi Kaneshiro). After fighting back attackers from an helpless village, the three men take an
oath to become "blood brothers," pledging loyalty to one another until death, but things quickly turn sour and the three men
become embroiled in a web of political deceit, and a love triangle between Pang, Er Hu and a beautiful courtesan (Wu Jing-
Lei).
SPOTLIGHT FEATURES
Highlighted feature films airing on HDNet Movies
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Amelie
premiers Wednesday, March 17th at 8:00pm
Starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography,
Best Sound and Best Writing
Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film
Dave
premieres Friday, March 12th at 8:00pm
Starring Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella. Directed by Ivan Reitman
Academy Award nomination for Best Writing
Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Motion Picture Film – Comedy/Musical and Best Performance by an Actor in a
Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical: Kevin Kline
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
premieres Saturday, March 13th at 8:00pm
Starring Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughn. Directed by Steven Spielberg
Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects
Maverick
premieres Monday, March 8th at 8:00pm
Starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner. Directed by Richard Donner
Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Thursday, March 11th at 8:05pm
Starring Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sandra Locke. Directed by Clint Eastwood
Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score
Tremors
premieres Saturday, March 13th at 10:15pm
Starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross. Directed by Ron Underwood
The Three Musketeers – premieres Saturday, March 27th at 8:00pm
Starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell. Directed by Stephen Herek
KidScene
A morning block of kids and family films beginning at 9am daily
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The Black Stallion
Starring Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr. Directed by Carroll Ballard
Academy Award winner for Special Achievement in Sound Editing - Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor:
Mickey Rooney and Best Film Editing - Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score
The Black Stallion Returns
Starring Kelly Reno, Vincent Spano, Teri Garr
Clifford
Starring Martin Short, Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen. Directed by Paul Flaherty
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
Starring Steve Irwin, Teri Irwin, Magda Szubanski. Directed by John Stainton
Freaky Friday
Starring Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin. Directed by Gary Nelson
Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Motion Picture Actress: Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris, Best Original Song
Leroy & Stitch
Voices of Daveigh Chase, Tia Carrere, Kevin McDonald. Directed by Tony Craig and Roberts Gannaway
Napoleon
Voices of Jamie Croft, Philip Quast, Susan Lyons. Directed by Mario Andreacchio
Pepple and the Penguin
Voices of Shani Wallis, S. Scott Bullock, Martin Short. Directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman
Puss in Boots
Starring Christopher Walken, Jason Connery, Carmela Marner. Directed by Eugene Marner
The Secret of NIMH
Voices of Dom DeLuise, Shannen Doherty, Wil Wheaton. Directed by Don Bluth
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
Voices of Dennis Alwood, Carmen Argenziano, Daryl Bartley. Directed by Steven Hawn
Tarka the Otter
Starring Peter Ustinov, Peter Bennett, Edward Underdown. Directed by David Cobham
Thunderbird 6
Voices of Peter Dyneley, Sylvia Anderson, Shane Rimmer. Directed by David Lane
Thunderbirds Are GO
Voices of Peter Dyneley, Sylvia Anderson, Shane Rimmer. Directed by David Lane
PROGRAM SPECIAL
A weeklong tribute to Academy Award winning films leading up to the Oscars on March 7th
Marty
Monday, March 1st at 8:05pm
Starring Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti. Directed by Delbert Mann
Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine and Best Writing - Screenplay
The Bad and the Beautiful
Monday, March 1st at 9:45pm
Starring Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon. Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Academy Award winner for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Supporting Actress: Gloria Grahame, Best Costume
Design, Best Writing – Screenplay, and Best Cinematography
The Apartment
Tuesday, March 2nd at 8:00pm
Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray. Directed by Billy Wilder
Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and
Best Writing – Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Pillow Talk
Tuesday, March 2nd at 10:15pm
Starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall. Directed by Michael Gordon
Academy Award winner for Best Writing – Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
On Golden Pond
Wednesday, March 3rd at 8:00pm
Starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda. Directed by Mark Rydell
Academy Award winner for Best Actor: Henry Fonda, Best Actress Katharine Hepburn and Best Writing – Screenplay
Based on Material from another Medium
Dead Poets Society
Wednesday, March 3rd at 10:00pm
Starring Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke. Directed by Peter Weir
Academy Award winner for Best Writing – Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
The Black Stallion
Thursday, March 4th at 8:00pm
Starring Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr. Directed by Carroll Ballard
Academy Award winner for Special Achievement in Sound Editing
The Big Country
Thursday, March 4th at 10:00pm
Starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Caroll Baker. Directed by William Wyler
Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor: Burl Ives
Adaptation
Friday, March 5th at 8:00pm
Starring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper. Directed by Spike Jonze
Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor: Chris Cooper
The Crying Game
Friday, March 5th at 10:00pm
Starring Forrest Whitaker, Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson. Directed by Neil Jordan
Academy Award winner for Best Writing – Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
A River Runs Through It
Saturday, March 6th at 8:00pm
Starring Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, Tom Skerritt. Directed by Robert Redford
Academy Award winner for Best Cinematography
Unforgiven
Saturday, March 6th at 10:15pm
Starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman. Directed by Clint Eastwood
Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Gene Hackman
Doctor Zhivago
Sunday, March 7th at 5:45pm
Starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin. Directed by David Lean
Academy Award winner for Best Writing – Screenplay Based on Material from another Medium, Best
Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Music – Score, Best Cinematography
Gigi
Sunday, March 7th at 9:00pm
Starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan. Directed by Vincente Minnelli - Academy Award winner for Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration,
Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from another Medium, Best Original Song, and Best Music: Scoring of a Musical
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Adam's Rib
Starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday. Directed by George Cukor
Academy Award nomination for Best Writing
Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress: Judy Holliday
The Apartment
Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray. Directed by Billy Wilder
Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and Best Writing
Academy Award nominations for Best Actor: Jack Lemmon, Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine, Best Supporting Actor: Jack
Kruschen, Best Cinematography and Best Sound
Golden Globe Award winner for Best Motion Picture – Comedy, Best Motion Picture Actor: Jack Lemmon and Best Motion
Picture Actress: Shirley MacLaine
Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Motion Picture Director
The Bad and the Beautiful
Starring Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon. Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Academy Award winner for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Supporting Actress: Gloria Grahame, Best Costume
Design, Best Writing and Best Cinematography
Academy Award nomination for Best Actor: Kirk Douglas
Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress: Gloria Grahame and Best Supporting Actor: Gilbert Roland
The Black Stallion
Starring Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr. Directed by Carroll Ballard
Academy Award winner for Special Achievement in Sound Editing
Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor: Mickey Rooney and Best Film Editing
Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score
Gigi
Starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan. Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best
Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Writing, Best Original Song, and Best Music: Scoring of a Musical Picture
Golden Globe Award winner for Best Motion Picture – Musical, Best Motion Picture Director and Best Supporting Actress:
Hermione Gingold
Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Motion Picture Actress: Leslie Caron, Best Motion Picture Actor: Maurice
Chevalier, and Best Motion Picture Actor: Louis Jourdan
Marty
Starring Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti. Directed by Delbert Mann
Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine and Best Writing
Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress: Betsy Blair, Best Supporting Actor: Joe Mantell, Best Art Direction-
Set Decoration and Best Cinematography
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Starring Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sandra Locke. Directed by Clint Eastwood
Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score
Pillow Talk
Starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall. Directed by Michael Gordon
Academy Award winner for Best Writing - Academy Award nominations for Best Actress: Doris Day, Best Supporting Actress:
Thelma Ritter, Best Music and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Motion Picture – Comedy, Best Motion Picture Actress: Doris Day and Best
Motion Picture Supporting Actor: Tony Randall
Unforgiven
Starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman. Directed by Clint Eastwood
Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Gene Hackman
Academy Award nominations for Best Actor: Clint Eastwood, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best
Sound and Best Writing
Golden Globe Award winner for Best Motion Picture Director: Clint Eastwood and Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting
Role: Gene Hackman
Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
In Retro
Memorable Classic movies airing Sunday Nights and throughout the month
Doctor Zhivago
Sunday, March 7th at 5:45pm
Starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin. Directed by David Lean
Academy Award winner for Best Writing, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Music – Score,
Best Cinematography
Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Sound and Best Supporting Actor:
Tom Courtenay
Golden Globe Award winner for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Motion Picture Director, Best Screenplay,
Best Original Score, Best Motion Picture Actor: Omar Sharif and Most Promising Newcomer: Geraldine Chaplin
Gigi
Sunday, March 7th at 9:00pm
Starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan. Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best
Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Writing, Best Original Song, and Best Music: Scoring of a Musical Picture
Golden Globe Award winner for Best Motion Picture – Musical, Best Motion Picture Director and Best Supporting Actress:
Hermione Gingold
Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Motion Picture Actress: Leslie Caron, Best Motion Picture Actor: Maurice
Chevalier, and Best Motion Picture Actor: Louis Jourdan
The Missouri Breaks
premieres Sunday, March 14th at 8:00pm
Starring Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid. Directed by Arthur Penn
The China Syndrome
Sunday, March 14th at 10:15pm
Starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas. Directed by James Bridges
Academy Award nominations for Best Actress: Jane Fonda, Best Actor: Jack Lemmon, Best Writing and Best Art Direction-
Set Decoration
Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Motion Picture Director, Best Motion Picture
Actress: Jane Fonda, Best Motion Picture Actor: Jack Lemmon, and Best Motion Picture Screenplay
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Sunday, March 21st at 6:00pm
Starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach. Directed by Sergio Leone
The Outlaw Josey Wales – Sunday, March 21st at 9:05pm
Starring Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sandra Locke. Directed by Clint Eastwood
Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score
Pillow Talk
Sunday, March 28th at 5:30pm
Starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall. Directed by Michael Gordon
Academy Award winner for Best Writing
Academy Award nominations for Best Actress: Doris Day, Best Supporting Actress: Thelma Ritter, Best Music and Best Art
Direction-Set Decoration
Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Motion Picture – Comedy, Best Motion Picture Actress: Doris Day and Best
Motion Picture Supporting Actor: Tony Randall
Send Me No Flowers
Sunday, March 28th at 8:15pm
Starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall. Directed by Norman Jewison
Lover Come Back – Sunday, March 28th at 10:05pm
Starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall. Directed by Delbert Mann
Academy Award nomination for Best Writing
Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor: Tony Randall
The Thrill of It All
late night Sunday, March 28th at 12:00am
Starring Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis. Directed by Norman Jewison
ART HOUSE CINEMA
Independent films, foreign films and documentaries airing throughout the month
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Amelie
Starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography,
Best Sound and Best Writing
Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film
Adaptation
Starring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper. Directed by Spike Jonze
Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor: Chris Cooper
Academy Award nomination for Best Actor: Nicholas Cage, Best Actress: Meryl Streep and Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay
The Company
Starring Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco. Directed by Robert Altman
The Crying Game
Starring Forrest Whitaker, Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson. Directed by Neil Jordan
Academy Award winner for Best Writing – Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor: Stephen Rea, Best Supporting Actor: Jaye Davidson,
and Best Film Editing
Danny Deckchair
Starring Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Justine Clarke. Directed by Jeff Balsmeyer
District B-13
Starring Cyril Raffaelli David Belle, Tony A'Mario. Directed by Pierre Morel
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Starring Bob Geldof, Bob Hoskins, Christine Hargreaves. Directed by Alan Parker
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Must've been more than a few months ago...I've been waiting to get JP II to complete my collection in HD (without commercials) for over 6-7 months and haven't seen it on any of the premiums since I and III started in rotation a month or so after HDNet Movies aired them...
Hello everyone, new guy here. I'm trying to solve problem I'm having with Dish bonus view channels. When I'm watching the bonus view channels then I switch back to regular dish channels, after few minutes the screen flips to black and after 30 seconds flips back to regular channels and continues to flip back and forth until I turn off TV. After I wait 30 minutes and turn back on , I can use regular channels again. So, its after I switch from bonus view channels to regular dish channels the problem starts. Been trying to fix this for a month, but no luck
Here what I've done.
i contacted Dish support and they sent me a new Joey3, but no help. Switched to a different HDMI input on TV, no help. Used different HDMI cable , no help. Used different electrical wall plug, no help.
Finally got a Dish tech to check it. He ran all systems check and was OK. Finally he brought in a small TV and plugged in the HDMI out from the Joey to the small TV. He could not get the problem to occur on his small TV, so the new Joey was working OK. So, then the problem must be myTV. He made some phone calls and came back with the answer that there must be a problem with the analog to digital switch in my TV. Has anyone ever heard of a problem like this, or is it time to be looking for a new TV? My tv LG OLED65C8PUA. TV has been trouble free til now. Thanks
Here what I've done.
i contacted Dish support and they sent me a new Joey3, but no help. Switched to a different HDMI input on TV, no help. Used different HDMI cable , no help. Used different electrical wall plug, no help.
Finally got a Dish tech to check it. He ran all systems check and was OK. Finally he brought in a small TV and plugged in the HDMI out from the Joey to the small TV. He could not get the problem to occur on his small TV, so the new Joey was working OK. So, then the problem must be myTV. He made some phone calls and came back with the answer that there must be a problem with the analog to digital switch in my TV. Has anyone ever heard of a problem like this, or is it time to be looking for a new TV? My tv LG OLED65C8PUA. TV has been trouble free til now. Thanks
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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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House of the Dragon, the prequel to Game of Thrones, premieres on HBO Max on 8/21. I will be warching
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'Game of Thrones' spinoff 'House of the Dragon' fires up release date at HBO, drops new character pics
The wait’s felt a little like watching for a dragon egg to hatch, but HBO’s hugely anticipated Game of Thrones prequel series finally has a release date. House of the Dragon will debut the first of its initial 10-episode season this summer, the network revealed today in a series of tweets that...
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Hi all, I recently inherited a FTA system off Craiglist and have been trying to get it set up. What I got was a Glorystar-branded ~90cm offset dish with a ground mount (/flat roof) frame, and GEOSATpro DSR200c receiver. From that initial equipment, I've replaced the old LNBF with a (cheap!) new one and also splurged on an SG-2100 H-H motorized rotor which does respond from the receiver's USALS menu.
The previous owner had it set up for religious programming on Galaxy 19 and I've been trying to start by finding that same bird at least. After a couple sessions I'm not sure I have, but I've found *something* at least! A handful of motor ticks further than the dish wants to be for 97W after starting from motor 0 pointing as much south as I can guess at. (I don't have great references to aim for and it's really hard to sight where exactly the dish is pointing anyway….)
Anyway, so far there's only one transponder that I've ever been able to catch as I search. It's 12146 V and when the receiver scans it I get this list of video channels:
but it's a long-winded spiel about "you know us as an industry-leading satellite solutions provider with over a quarter million sites" and to call them For All Your Every Needs™ type thing.
While I get little blips from other frequencies, this is the only strong transponder I've been able to come across. My receiver shows it as S 75 and Q up to 85 when I adjust it. It actually seemed to get better as I **un**skewed my LBNF — iiuc G19 was supposed to be -20º for me but however I'm supposed to be reading/referencing the angles the puck is now basically at 0º relative to the dish/arm got the strongest on this transponder.
Anyway sorry this is so long winded already… my question is, do I even have the right satellite? None of the other transponders that are supposed to be active on G-19 seem to come in. And if not the right satellite does anyone happen to recognize which one I might have found instead? I think knowing that would help me then adjust for a truer south aim and then hopeful the USALS will work automatically once I can get it dialed in.
The previous owner had it set up for religious programming on Galaxy 19 and I've been trying to start by finding that same bird at least. After a couple sessions I'm not sure I have, but I've found *something* at least! A handful of motor ticks further than the dish wants to be for 97W after starting from motor 0 pointing as much south as I can guess at. (I don't have great references to aim for and it's really hard to sight where exactly the dish is pointing anyway….)
Anyway, so far there's only one transponder that I've ever been able to catch as I search. It's 12146 V and when the receiver scans it I get this list of video channels:
- 1.1 Srv_1
- 2.84 OU_Chan
- 3.2 Srv_2
- 4.5 Srv_5
- 5.3 Srv_3
- 6.4 Srv_4
- 7.6 Srv_6
- 8.7 Srv_7
but it's a long-winded spiel about "you know us as an industry-leading satellite solutions provider with over a quarter million sites" and to call them For All Your Every Needs™ type thing.While I get little blips from other frequencies, this is the only strong transponder I've been able to come across. My receiver shows it as S 75 and Q up to 85 when I adjust it. It actually seemed to get better as I **un**skewed my LBNF — iiuc G19 was supposed to be -20º for me but however I'm supposed to be reading/referencing the angles the puck is now basically at 0º relative to the dish/arm got the strongest on this transponder.
Anyway sorry this is so long winded already… my question is, do I even have the right satellite? None of the other transponders that are supposed to be active on G-19 seem to come in. And if not the right satellite does anyone happen to recognize which one I might have found instead? I think knowing that would help me then adjust for a truer south aim and then hopeful the USALS will work automatically once I can get it dialed in.
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Done and done and done! I ended up doing a bit more iteration (back and forth between the left-right and up-down adjustments) but I've now got it landing on G19 at its default position for 97W.
Yep, ended up with a page or two full on my receiver's search. Didn't double-check that my receiver has all six of the right transponders but I can mess with that later if it turns out I'm missing something interesting but still DVB-S / MPEG-2 compatible.
Yep, can see definite signal degradation as soon as I skew the LNB either way from "straight" (seam on the LNB lined up with the clamps on the mounting bracket). Will make setup easier if I want to try swapping anything else in!
I don't know if there's any good (unencrypted, DVB-S) satellite farther away to really check the sweep against, but I was at least able to program in my original find at 101.0 W back in (now at the correct "12000 V 20000" setting) and can get both birds automatically.
Shouldn't be *that* exciting since it's just an ad, but still really fun to choose channels on the other one and have it jog over and lock on
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beside 123W, another one to try (if it's above the horizon at your location) is Hispasat @30W. It has at least 2 DVB-S transponders with SD/Mpeg2 channelsDone and done and done! I ended up doing a bit more iteration (back and forth between the left-right and up-down adjustments) but I've now got it landing on G19 at its default position for 97W.
Yep, ended up with a page or two full on my receiver's search. Didn't double-check that my receiver has all six of the right transponders but I can mess with that later if it turns out I'm missing something interesting but still DVB-S / MPEG-2 compatible.
Yep, can see definite signal degradation as soon as I skew the LNB either way from "straight" (seam on the LNB lined up with the clamps on the mounting bracket). Will make setup easier if I want to try swapping anything else in!
I don't know if there's any good (unencrypted, DVB-S) satellite farther away to really check the sweep against, but I was at least able to program in my original find at 101.0 W back in (now at the correct "12000 V 20000" setting) and can get both birds automatically.
Shouldn't be *that* exciting since it's just an ad, but still really fun to choose channels on the other one and have it jog over and lock on
No luck finding this one. I motor over and it seems like a pretty dead spot of sky. I did get a slight blip (Q up to 1% or 2%) if I lowered the dish slightly. So I wonder if my polar mount itself maybe needs a bit of fine tuning?
Even when loosening the bolts and manually nudging the dish up/down/left/right nothing seemed to really wake it [new receiver, see below!] up and never saw anything more than 4% or 5% which I don't know is even real or could have been just noise?
I'm in Washington state (northwest CONUS) so this one's not an option for me.
I now have a V8 Finder 2
I've been able to scan in more now on G-19, and as well as watching the ad on SES 1 and getting some PBS stations there and G-16 both. So three satellites kinda in the general vicinity of each other (97W/101W/99.1W) programmed and able to rotate between.
Is G-18 at 123W as strong as the others? According to Satbeams I should be at least somewhat in its footprint although it looks like it's maybe focused more on Alaska.
Now that I'm back at my computer waiting for the Finder to charge back up looks like the Eutelsat(s) 117W have a couple Ku transponders I could look for too.
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I'm having trouble finding a for sure answer on this. When I first started diving back into satellite stuff I noticed the GT Media V8 Finder2 which looks pretty cool and relatively low price point. But I can't find an answer, seems like some people (and Amazon's own AI guesser-bot) say it doesn't support motors.
The manual itself (the PDF that I found is named 20220718043903GTMEDIAV8FINDER2.pdf and it's on page 6 of 8) does show on the installation screen a "Motor Setup" menu item and says "If select DiSEqC1.2 or USALS, we can press ◀︎▶︎ to select IF Channel, and use number key to input Center Frequency."
Which…… the USALS part seems promising, but I don't know what IF and Center frequencies have to do with anything? Can it drive the motor off its battery for one, and does it have options for e.g. using the ◀︎▶︎ arrows to change the aim and save adjustments?
The closest I've found to real-world experience here is in Long shot with TBS6909X card where someone is talking about a different rotor and says:
> when I connect my V8 Finder 2, it immediately moves the dish if it's not in the correct position
which seems really promising! Moving the dish is what I'm after here, with something newer than the old MPEG-2 receiver I have now. Even for other receivers its really unclear if motor support is just pretty much a safe assumption that they don't even mention it anymore?
The V9 Prime actually looks pretty nice too and assuming it runs motors maybe that'd be better than the V8 Finder 2 for actual long term use since it has networking. But I'm having trouble finding listings for it (and actually most other receivers I see mentioned here) on Amazon or eBay or even Aliexpress. I'm wanting a DVB-S2 receiver for at least MPEG-4 with H.264/AVC and maybe should just get H.265/HEVC while I'm shopping. Main criteria:
* run my "Goto X"-era SG-2100 rotator
* be able to view most/all modern FTA satellites
* ideally a scheduled DVR feature and/or network would make it more useful
* I don't mind if it has… "alternative" firmwares or features but just for broader compatibility/interest
My main goal is I guess just exploration, seeing what's up there. Honestly not a big TV guy and definitely not into infomercials but if I can time shift the occasional Bob Ross or Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, or catch some world events as they're being uplinked, that sort of thing might be interesting. (Honestly main goal started out as weather satellites but this is kinda a warmup excercise for what will likely be a separate setup due to the frequencies.)
My dish is kinda far from my house and even farther from my "radio shack" so if I could just run a PoE ethernet line to something in a box below the dish, or a coax only to the crawlspace where I have 110V but either way would need it full remote including changing between satellites. To avoid having to buy and pull tons more coax up and down through the house. I'm into open source and real standards, so I'd much rather something that I can say use with VLC or go2rtc via a raw IP address and protocol rather than some convenient but proprietary iOS cloud app thingy.
The manual itself (the PDF that I found is named 20220718043903GTMEDIAV8FINDER2.pdf and it's on page 6 of 8) does show on the installation screen a "Motor Setup" menu item and says "If select DiSEqC1.2 or USALS, we can press ◀︎▶︎ to select IF Channel, and use number key to input Center Frequency."
Which…… the USALS part seems promising, but I don't know what IF and Center frequencies have to do with anything? Can it drive the motor off its battery for one, and does it have options for e.g. using the ◀︎▶︎ arrows to change the aim and save adjustments?
The closest I've found to real-world experience here is in Long shot with TBS6909X card where someone is talking about a different rotor and says:
> when I connect my V8 Finder 2, it immediately moves the dish if it's not in the correct position
which seems really promising! Moving the dish is what I'm after here, with something newer than the old MPEG-2 receiver I have now. Even for other receivers its really unclear if motor support is just pretty much a safe assumption that they don't even mention it anymore?
The V9 Prime actually looks pretty nice too and assuming it runs motors maybe that'd be better than the V8 Finder 2 for actual long term use since it has networking. But I'm having trouble finding listings for it (and actually most other receivers I see mentioned here) on Amazon or eBay or even Aliexpress. I'm wanting a DVB-S2 receiver for at least MPEG-4 with H.264/AVC and maybe should just get H.265/HEVC while I'm shopping. Main criteria:
* run my "Goto X"-era SG-2100 rotator
* be able to view most/all modern FTA satellites
* ideally a scheduled DVR feature and/or network would make it more useful
* I don't mind if it has… "alternative" firmwares or features but just for broader compatibility/interest
My main goal is I guess just exploration, seeing what's up there. Honestly not a big TV guy and definitely not into infomercials but if I can time shift the occasional Bob Ross or Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, or catch some world events as they're being uplinked, that sort of thing might be interesting. (Honestly main goal started out as weather satellites but this is kinda a warmup excercise for what will likely be a separate setup due to the frequencies.)
My dish is kinda far from my house and even farther from my "radio shack" so if I could just run a PoE ethernet line to something in a box below the dish, or a coax only to the crawlspace where I have 110V but either way would need it full remote including changing between satellites. To avoid having to buy and pull tons more coax up and down through the house. I'm into open source and real standards, so I'd much rather something that I can say use with VLC or go2rtc via a raw IP address and protocol rather than some convenient but proprietary iOS cloud app thingy.
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Thanks, great tips and yeah when I'd read how the H/V bias worked I wondered if the higher voltage was ever useful for better power transfer
It was perhaps slightly impulsive (though I guess not too late to cancel) but instead of the Finder unit I ended up going for kinda the opposite: a completely faceless USB tuner box (TBS5930) which should have RF support all the way up through DVB-S2X. If I'm understanding correctly the actual video/audio will then be whatever I can get software/GPU support for so my hope is that any unencrypted MPEG-2/AVC/HEVC feed can be viewed with VLC or whatnot. As well as access to what I assume is pure data like the Blockstream stuff just for example. (They had a lot of good resources for reception of their own signal in lots of various interesting ways and is kinda how I found the TBS options.)
And I think I will be able to control DiSEqC stuff through Linux including motor commands. So the idea is kinda what I mentioned, hoping this can just get chained in to an old thin client PC or if there's any Raspberry Pi that doesn't cost triple digits these days, somewhere physically convenient and then run it all over LAN from my laptop.
All this is somewhat theoretical of course based on what I'm piecing together but at a certain point I usually have to close all the browser tabs and just commit to try *something* that looks promising and go from there.
It was perhaps slightly impulsive (though I guess not too late to cancel) but instead of the Finder unit I ended up going for kinda the opposite: a completely faceless USB tuner box (TBS5930) which should have RF support all the way up through DVB-S2X. If I'm understanding correctly the actual video/audio will then be whatever I can get software/GPU support for so my hope is that any unencrypted MPEG-2/AVC/HEVC feed can be viewed with VLC or whatnot. As well as access to what I assume is pure data like the Blockstream stuff just for example. (They had a lot of good resources for reception of their own signal in lots of various interesting ways and is kinda how I found the TBS options.)
And I think I will be able to control DiSEqC stuff through Linux including motor commands. So the idea is kinda what I mentioned, hoping this can just get chained in to an old thin client PC or if there's any Raspberry Pi that doesn't cost triple digits these days, somewhere physically convenient and then run it all over LAN from my laptop.
All this is somewhat theoretical of course based on what I'm piecing together but at a certain point I usually have to close all the browser tabs and just commit to try *something* that looks promising and go from there.
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