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piperut

Last reply Jun 4, 2005 · posted in Old VOOM CHIT CHAT Archives

Anybody know about USDTV?

I am in an area served by USDTV.

There website lists a few channels in SDTV.
Not really sure if this is a good option.

I think the PQ would be better then Dish or Direct TV.

I get NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS (actually 2 HD stations, and 9 SD PBS stations), Fox, and WB in HD off an OTA antenna.

USDTV lists ESPN, ESPN2, lifetime, Food Network, and a few others for my area. However, the channels list says these are in SD.

Not sure if this is worth looking into or not.

roland

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DarrellP

Apr 13, 2005

DO NOT SUPPORT USDTV. Unfortunatley, the Portland market has already agreed to sell off a portion of their bandwidth to them. I think the FCC should step in and ban this wholesale "sell-off" of FREE bandwidth.

bryan27

Apr 14, 2005

The FCC isn't going to do anything about it. Broadcasting has been renting out bandwidth for decades.

HDTV is not mandated only Digital operation is the mandate. It was known long before the standards were set for digital television that there would be auxillary services provided by the stations. HDTV is nice, but if a station doesn't want to transmit in HDTV they don't have too.

Not all broadcast stations are rolling in the dough to spend funds on the latest digital transmission equipment, some could barely afford to get on the air with standard digital. One of our local stations can't afford HDTV. It can barely afford to stay on the air with analog and having to convert to standard digital has put the station in $8 Million in debt.

We all complain about stations not transmitting in HDTV, but would you rather have a station transmit in SD or ED renting out space to keep the station afloat, or would you rather have the station go out of business and transmit no signal at all. What about some of these small market stations that in lew of airing HDTV have opted to multicast a network not currently available on analong in the market?

It is in the government's best interest that stations rent out space for auxillary services. The stations aren't getting away for free by renting out space. Like I said earlier they must pay the Government 5% of their gross earnings from the auxillary services in addition stations must increase the number of hours they broadcast Educational/Instructional programming for children and increase the number of hours of public affairs programming.

I really don't understand all the complaining with USDTV. The stations airing USDTV aren't major network affiliates with loads of HDTV content anyway. I could see if USDTV was using ABC, CBS, NBC, or FOX affiliates, but they aren't.

tvgirl

May 13, 2005

USDTV is NOT Lite HD

Vurbano couldn't be more wrong. Do your own broadcast homework. What creates Lite HD is a bunch of people sucking off the same signal, like cable. Over the air signal, like USD TV, is a direct signal you recieve, direct from the broadcaster. It's like in the old days before cable, every home had it's on anntena to recieve the TV signal over the air. Be a smart consumer. Do your research.

mdonnelly

May 13, 2005

tvgirl said:
Vurbano couldn't be more wrong. Do your own broadcast homework. What creates Lite HD is a bunch of people sucking off the same signal, like cable. Over the air signal, like USD TV, is a direct signal you recieve, direct from the broadcaster. It's like in the old days before cable, every home had it's on anntena to recieve the TV signal over the air. Be a smart consumer. Do your research.

Do your own. The signal is direct from the broadcaster, but is created by taking bandwidth from that station's OTA channel. There's no free lunch here. Each station is allotted so much bandwidth, and no more.

USDTV is a parasite. In many ways, it's just like cable - too many channels sucking off the same bandwidth.

piperut

Jun 4, 2005

Right now in the Salt Lake Area USDTV is running Fox News and Lifetime in the clear.
The PQ looks better then Dish Network. It is SDTV. Not HDTV.

They only offer 12 channels for $20, and they are not very many channels that I would watch.

For now I am going to stay with the Dish 180 package and the local OTA HDTV and see what happens down the road.

Things keeps changing fairly quickly.

roland

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Scott Greczkowski

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Song Name Game Part 3!

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....

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I Wanna Talk About Me - Toby Keith

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98.6 - Keith

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I'm Easy - Keith Carridine

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It's Easy - Boston

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reubenray

Last reply Today at 10:36 AM · 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

Today at 10:09 AM

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

Today at 10:36 AM

arlo said:
That's all I got.

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

TRG

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Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · 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

Overview of the new Starlink V5 model along with comparison to the previous V4 model along with a recommended setup for mobile internet users.

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Foxbat

Today at 10:27 AM

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.

dishstaller

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Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

I think we could all use a laugh - Rodney Dangerfield on Carson

Good...simple humor. Enjoy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92AtfTLge4

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJy0WnejlF4

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Jimbo

Today at 12:37 AM

Not Rodney, but a laugh ...

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WHEcmortfK0?feature=share

dishstaller

Today at 10:27 AM

Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.

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Last reply Today at 10:17 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

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.

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

www.zerohedge.com

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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

www.zerohedge.com

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

dishstaller

Today at 10:17 AM

Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.

The safest seat to sit on in a train

Safety experts have shared top tips on train safety after a fatal railway crash in Spain killed 69 people, including where the safest place is in an emergency.

www.dailymail.com