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Last reply Jul 29, 2013 · posted in Free To Air (FTA) Discussion

Golden Media Spark Triplex receiver

Has anyone seen this receiver? It is comparable to the Amiko Alien2. Its got some pretty good features for a multimedia style box.

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[TD="class: data last"]Technical specifications:
• Linux OS
• Dual boot system
• 2 x Conax CA
• 600 MHz Processor
• Spark Portal (VOD services,interactive TV services etc...)
• Spark onlineservice
• HBBTV
• Opera Webbrowser Shoutcast,Picasa,RSS,weather forcast,online user manual,FAQ etc...
• Youtube,Youporn & Kartina TV
• Powerfull Video support (Divx,Xvid,MKV,WMV,AVI etc...)
• WI-FI support
• 3-G support
• Full HD
• 3-D ready
• Plugins
• Network harddisc support
• USB for Personal-Video-Recording (PVR), MP3 , JPEG as well as software update
• USB-Hub support
• HDMI 1.3 output
• 7-Segment Display
• RCA port (Video, Audio, L&R)
• 1 x Scart TV
• RJ45 Ethernet port
• Digital Audio output (coaxial)
• RS 232 interface
• Video resolution Full HD 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 576p, 480p, 576i, 480i
• User optimized, multilingual OSD menu
• Standby < 0,5 Watt power consumption
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[TH="class: label"]HDTV receive[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]DVB-compatibility[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-T[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]DVB tuners[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]1 x DVB-C, 1 x DVB-T, 2 x DVB-S2[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]DVB decoding[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]MPEG2, MPEG4 AVC / H.264[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]Resolution[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]480i, 480p, 576i, 576p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]Aspect ratio[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]16:10, 16:9, 16:9 (4:3 pillarbox), 4:3, 4:3 (16:9 letterbox), Pan&Scan[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]Encryption[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Programmable smart card reader, Conax, NDS Videoguard, CCcam, MGCamd, Oscam[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]CI slots[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]0[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]Viewing card slots[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]2[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]Timeshift[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes (add disk drive)[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]Record[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes (add disk drive)[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]Watch and record on same mux 2 channels[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]Mux record[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]Hard disk and slots[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]NAS (network drive), USB[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]Channels[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Unlimited[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]Favorite channel list[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]Blindscan[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]Manual languages[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]English, German[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]Menu languages[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Finnish, Swedish, English, German, Russian, Estonian, Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, Portuguese, Catalan, Norwegian, Dutch, Danish, Polish, Greek, Czech, Frisian, Ukrainian, Hungary, Lithuanian, Croatian, Icelandic, Slovakian, Slovenian, Latvian, Serbian[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]EPG[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: odd"]
[TH="class: label"]DVB subtitles[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]Teletext[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
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[TR="class: odd"]
[TH="class: label"]RF modulator[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]No[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]DiSEqC compatibility[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 (USALS)[/TD]
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[TH="class: label"]Parental control[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]PiP (Picture in Picture)[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]No[/TD]
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[TR="class: odd"]
[TH="class: label"]Games[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]Linux OS[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
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[TR="class: odd"]
[TH="class: label"]Internet connection[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]RJ-45[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]Internet browser[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
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[TR="class: odd"]
[TH="class: label"]Youtube[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]Web video player[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]Yes[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: odd"]
[TH="class: label"]Web radio[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]No[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]Video play[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]AVI, DivX, mkv, MOV, TS, WMV, Xvid[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: odd"]
[TH="class: label"]Music play[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]MP3[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]Picture view[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]JPEG[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: odd"]
[TH="class: label"]Unicable compatible[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]No[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]12V power supply[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]No[/TD]
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[TR="class: odd"]
[TH="class: label"]Power consumption max (W)[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]No[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]Power consumption stand-by (W)[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]No[/TD]
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[TR="class: odd"]
[TH="class: label"]Software upgrade[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]USB, RJ-45[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TH="class: label"]Channel list upgrade[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]USB, RJ-45[/TD]
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[TR="class: odd"]
[TH="class: label"]Front panel connectors[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]No[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TH="class: label"]Back panel connectors[/TH]
[TD="class: data last"]HDMI out, TV SCART, Composite video out, Digital Audio out (Toslink), Digital Audio out (RCA), Stereo Audio out (2 x RCA), F in, F out, IEC in, IEC out, USB 2.0, Ethernet, RS-232, Modem[/TD]
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Kraven

Oct 25, 2012

IMO, an FTA box should be just an FTA box. If I want multimedia, i'll use my laptop. I rather these companies concentrate on improving boxes (faster scanning, 4:2:2, OTA tuner) rather than overloading them w/ media options which arent necessary.. just my 2 cents.

Cheers, K

rrob311

Dec 5, 2012

I went ahead and picked one of these up so I will be adding much more info once I test it out. Hopefully by next week sometime.

shloime

Dec 15, 2012

helpp
i'm have golden media wizard hd receiver and i'm do upgrade by usb Accidentally i'm put on my usb "ALI360X-upgrade-tool.zip that have abs file" after upgrade The reciever doesn't work it not go into operating system please if u can help tell what to do ? how i'm can upgrade it again !??

rrob311

Jan 18, 2013

Well I picked one of these receivers up and its pretty nice. Similar to the Amiko Alien 2 with the Spark operating system. A few features that I like are WebTV, the Spark Portal, and Webserver TV.

WebTV allows you to watch live internet streams by entering the URL into the menu. I have found many that work, and many that do not. It would be great if more could be done with this as there are many streams available online.

The Spark portal has different applications and games that you can choose from. Not sure who updates the list but there are many foreign apps in this section.

The Webserver TV function is my personal favorite as it allows you to stream most any satellite channel back to your PC provided you have enough internet speed. The great thing about this is you can stream 4:2:2 channels live to your PC! It also allows you to change channels remotely VIA PC.

The channel selection with this receiver is my favorite hands down. The interface is the easiest I have used. It allows you to view a list of satellites and a list of channels for each satellite where pressing the left arrow brings you back to the satellite list. I will have to post a picture to explain it better but it is the most user friendly IMO.

There is a popular Enigma operating system available for these which I have not yet tried which has different functions.

The Golden Media Spark One is basically the same thing but only has 1 satellite tuner.

tdti1

Jan 18, 2013

Kraven said:
IMO, an FTA box should be just an FTA box. If I want multimedia, i'll use my laptop. I rather these companies concentrate on improving boxes (faster scanning, 4:2:2, OTA tuner) rather than overloading them w/ media options which arent necessary.. just my 2 cents.

Cheers, K

I kind of agree, well minus a OTA tuner since all tv's have that built in these days. I would not mind them to have iptv service and able to play free web services though since that is also free and not everyone has a ps3 and I am not a fan off the buggy smart tv's.

rrob311

Jul 29, 2013

remote option

There is a cool app for this receiver that works with android which allows you to use your android device as a remote control. It works great. I also found a feature that allows you to stream 4:2:2 from this receiver to your PC provided you have enough internet speed. '

For instance, you would tune into one of the 4:2:2 news feeds on C-band. You then setup the web tv function with your IP address information and it will stream the 4:2:2 channel to your PC where you can watch it live! The best part is you can change the channels from your PC with the menus.

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Ramy

Supporting Founder

Last reply 26 minutes ago · posted in The Sports Section

2026-27 NCAA College Football

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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Yespage

Today at 4:57 PM

24 team playoff seems to be real close.

Are we really that far from a 64-team tournament?

The benefit of the 24 team playoff:

All the cartel teams that cartels want in playoff are in playoff
- Independent of record too! Bonus.
MONEY!!!!! for the cartels.
I'm out of ideas.

Cons

Regular season really doesn't matter now other than the rivalry games
- Top cartel teams can lose three games and still make the playoff
Going to start resting players?
- The playoff is going to be *checks notes* several games!
- Resting players could make games dumb.
- Maybe even restrict NIL players from games played.
How much are streaming sub costs going up a month to pay for this?!

AZ.

Today at 5:30 PM

Yespage said:
24 team playoff seems to be real close.

Are we really that far from a 64-team tournament?

The benefit of the 24 team playoff:

All the cartel teams that cartels want in playoff are in playoff

Independent of record too! Bonus.

MONEY!!!!! for the cartels.

I'm out of ideas.

Cons

Regular season really doesn't matter now other than the rivalry games

Top cartel teams can lose three games and still make the playoff

Going to start resting players?

The playoff is going to be *checks notes* several games!

Resting players could make games dumb.

Maybe even restrict NIL players from games played.

How much are streaming sub costs going up a month to pay for this?!

One of the pro's I see is in a year with so many undefeated teams they have a good chance of an opening. Few years back you had lower divisions that didnt get a shot. I love collage football and I have no problem with that addition.

We are in what week 5 now? Been two real good ranked games to watch.....Other than that top 25 teams are playing nothing.

Jimbo

Today at 5:45 PM

Yespage said:
24 team playoff seems to be real close.

Are we really that far from a 64-team tournament?

The benefit of the 24 team playoff:

All the cartel teams that cartels want in playoff are in playoff

Independent of record too! Bonus.

MONEY!!!!! for the cartels.

I'm out of ideas.

Cons

Regular season really doesn't matter now other than the rivalry games

Top cartel teams can lose three games and still make the playoff

Going to start resting players?

The playoff is going to be *checks notes* several games!

Resting players could make games dumb.

Maybe even restrict NIL players from games played.

How much are streaming sub costs going up a month to pay for this?!

This will be a SAD DAY when this passes ....

They complained the last year that we had a bunch of Blow Outs in the Playoffs ... heres an idea, lets Double the amount of teams and hope for Closer games ... ya right.

This never should have went past 8 teams, 10 at the most.

Now, I have heard that play in games are being talked about, such as #13 plays #24 and so forth, to cut the field down (why cut it down, just don't expand it.)
I'm not sure exactly how thats going to work out or if it was just someone talking.

They were also talking about starting the Season earlier ...

I really don't like the National Championship game being the end of January ... if the Semi Finals are over New Years, thats fine with the Championship game the next week.

Jimbo

Today at 5:47 PM

AZ. said:
One of the pro's I see is in a year with so many undefeated teams they have a good chance of an opening. Few years back you had lower divisions that didnt get a shot. I love collage football and I have no problem with that addition.

We are in what week 5 now? Been two real good ranked games to watch.....Other than that top 25 teams are playing nothing.

There are 68 Power 4 teams, so eventually they will get there I wouldn't imagine ...

AZ.

41 minutes ago

Jimbo said:
There are 68 Power 4 teams, so eventually they will get there I wouldn't imagine ...

Far from it but you know that....You dont like the larger playoff.....Its ok.....

Jimbo

30 minutes ago

AZ. said:
Far from it but you know that....You dont like the larger playoff.....Its ok.....

Oh, I Hate the idea ...

It would be different if it was a game that you could play 2 or games each week, but when you only play 1 game a week, the larger playoff is Not a good thing ...

The season has how many games now, is it 14 ... then you want to play another 5 (with more to come) against Top 12 (eventually 24 teams) ... remember, the 5 games in the playoffs will be the hardest games all year and back to back.

For example, IF Ohio State should win it all this year ... they play 5 teams in the Top 25, plus they would play 5 more to win it all, depending on how the ranking shake out and if Bye weeks are given.

Thats 10 Ranked teams ... in one year ...
I don't see that happening very often ...
Edit, Bama plays 4, Georgia plays 3, But Ole Miss plays 5 (didn't expect to see that)

That said, I don't see the Buckeyes winning it all this year.

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AZ.

26 minutes ago

Jimbo said:
Oh, I Hate the idea ...

It would be different if it was a game that you could play 2 or games each week, but when you only play 1 game a week, the larger playoff is Not a good thing ...

The season has how many games now, is it 14 ... then you want to play another 5 (with more to come) against Top 12 (eventually 24 teams) ... remember, the 5 games in the playoffs will be the hardest games all year and back to back.

For example, IF Ohio State should win it all this year ... they play 5 teams in the Top 25, plus they would play 5 more to win it all, depending on how the ranking shake out and if Bye weeks are given.

Thats 10 Ranked teams ... in one year ...
I don't see that happening very often ...

That said, I don't see the Buckeyes winning it all this year.

Yes anyone here knows you 100%....Astros failed no posting...Ohio state loses we hear it.....Its ok....Its called an opinion....I have one so do you.....Problem is?

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ppappas

Pub Member / Supporter

Last reply 27 minutes ago · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Newest NCIS recording doesn't allow auto skip

On Tuesday, I recorded the first episodes of the new season's NCIS shows on CBS (Dish provided, not OTA). The new New York series and Origins will both do Auto Skip, but the original, now season 24 does not. What's stranger, when I do a search for NCIS, Origins and New York show the current recording and the next episode it will record, but the original show only shows the current recording and some other channel showing the very first episode of season one. It makes no sense. When I set up the timers, I was able to use search for Origins and New York, but for the original, I had to scroll ahead in the guide until last Tuesday when the show was airing. Then set the timer from there. You can see its timer type is DVR where the other two are Seek. What am I missing?
Thanks!

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Nebugeater

Today at 9:12 AM

It is obviose some people do not know the diffornece between auto skip and FF

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Jimbo

Today at 9:45 AM

Nebugeater said:
It is obviose some people do not know the diffornece between auto skip and FF

IF you were referring to my post ...
Thats why I do all my Streaming Commercial FREE.

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Bobby

Today at 11:22 AM

Nebugeater said:
It is obviose some people do not know the diffornece between auto skip and FF

And there is a difference between fast forward and skip forwad....

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tanman

Today at 11:25 AM

With both CBS and Fox autohop (as we know) is not enabled for a week..But after 24 hours if you mash the FF button until the red kangaroo shows up in the bottom right you wont overshoot the program. No need to try to figure how long the break is.

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Cold Irons

Today at 12:03 PM

tanman said:
With both CBS and Fox autohop (as we know) is not enabled for a week..But after 24 hours if you mash the FF button until the red kangaroo shows up in the bottom right you wont overshoot the program. No need to try to figure how long the break is.

Yep. We do this all the time, but we use the 30-sec skip forward button until the red kangaroo shows up. Love this feature.

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Jim5506

27 minutes ago

I'm a bit confused about the recording methods.
Do you havePrime Time Anytime enabled, by doing that you don't have to set recordings for Prime time programs on ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox stations, it's done daily, 7 days a week.
And only 2 weeks recordings are saved, no deletions either.

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"MysteryMan"

Pub Member / Supporter Cutting Edge

Last reply 44 minutes ago · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Windows 10/11 Download

I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.

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EarDemon

Tuesday at 9:43 PM

If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.

WhiteBeard

Tuesday at 9:59 PM

EarDemon said:
If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.

To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.

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EarDemon

Yesterday at 10:12 PM

WhiteBeard said:
To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.

For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.

I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.

EarDemon

Today at 10:07 AM

I have no OEM bloat, on CTO devices where I can access the drive, I order it with the smallest allowed drive and crack the device open throw the factory drive in the garbage and put in my own WD Black and install Windows from bootable media. For Windows bloat, I install Windows using the English - World option which limits preinstalled MS bloat.

Windows and Office features I wish to block, like CoPilot and Cortana, macro enabled Office files and others are blocked with GPOs.

Between keeping all software up to date, doing firmware updates, putting IoT devices on a separate VLAN, running Symantec Endpoint (say what you want about it, it's been good to me) and practicing safe hex, I'm vigilant but not paranoid about security.

With NVMe SSDs, my cold boot up time on all devices is under 30 secs as well. Fast boot disabled, BitLocker drive encryption enabled.

I have nothing against Linux, been paying with it on and off since 2004ish, it's just not the right solution for me.

HipKat

Today at 10:32 AM

EarDemon said:
it's just not the right solution for me.

As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.

harshness

Today at 11:18 AM

EarDemon said:
I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows.

What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI? By many accounts, it has been going downhill since Windows 7.

There are Linux desktops that offer Windows or Mac UIs, yet you don't hear much chatter about them outside of questions about when the creators might get sued.

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EarDemon

59 minutes ago

harshness said:
What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI?

Because it's what I prefer. I know I've said this a few times, I use Open Shell to give me the cascading start menu a la WIN 95 and NT4.0. The only reason I went from Windows Vista to 7 back in the day was because of Classic Shell. I cannot stand anything other than the OG start menu from 30+ years ago. I'm using ExplorerPatcher to give me Windows 10 UI elements of the taskbar and right click context menus.

If you could take a look at how I set up Windows 95, you'd find many similarities to how I use 11.

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EarDemon

44 minutes ago

I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.

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dfergie

Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU!

Last reply 54 minutes ago · posted in TV Shows

NCIS: Origins

Hard getting used to the new younger Gibbs, Mark Harmons son had the right look but I understand he didn't want the role.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.

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dfergie

Today at 4:38 PM

Really good one with OG Gibbs bookending it...

reubenray

Today at 4:48 PM

dfergie said:
Really good one with OG Gibbs bookending it...

Will the OG Gibbs be on NCIS or will Tony be on NCIS Origins?

dfergie

Today at 6:06 PM

Tony was there at the end of the episode with Gibbs.

reubenray

Today at 7:23 PM

dfergie said:
Tony was there at the end of the episode with Gibbs.

I saw Gibbs walk into the door, but I did not see Tony.

Jimbo

Today at 8:41 PM

dfergie said:
Tony was there at the end of the episode with Gibbs.

Tony was Not in this episode ... you may remember Gibbs walking into the office and those around Welcomed him home, Voices only.

If you also watch the Mothership, Tony has been in that one ...

dfergie

54 minutes ago

Jimbo said:
Tony was Not in this episode ... you may remember Gibbs walking into the office and those around Welcomed him home, Voices only.

If you also watch the Mothership, Tony has been in that one ...

I must have seen that in previews
.

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osu1991

Pub Member / Supporter

Today at 8:54 PM · posted in TV Shows

Frisco King - Paramount Plus

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December 18, 2026 Paramount plus

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Scott Greczkowski

Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU! Cutting Edge

Last reply Today at 8:45 PM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

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

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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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Bobby

Today at 11:19 AM

Kiss - The Art Of Noise

long_time_Dish

Today at 4:45 PM

Beautiful Noise - Neil Diamond

sdfntx

Today at 5:39 PM

White Noise - Jessie Baylin

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dishstaller

Today at 6:13 PM

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

long_time_Dish

Today at 8:45 PM

White Sun - The Doobie Brothers

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dishstaller

Pub Member / Supporter Lifetime Supporter

Last reply Today at 8:25 PM · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum

Hughesnet cancelling email addresses

Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.

I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.

Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.

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Foxbat

Today at 2:37 PM

Doing a Google of the HughesNet Email notice, it seems that HughesNet has been trying to eliminate hosting emails since 2019. And with HughesNet filing Chapter 11 back in August, it would be a smart move to switch to a more stable Email provider. Even AT&T farmed out their Email to Yahoo! years ago.

SpaceX's Starlink and the Cellular 5G Home Internet solutions have pretty much relegated HughesNet and its high latency, low bandwidth Internet service to History. If Earth had shorter days, maybe a Geostationary Internet Solution might have stood a fighting chance…

navychop

Today at 3:16 PM

Foxbat said:
If Earth had shorter days,

Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

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Foxbat

Today at 3:30 PM

navychop said:
Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…

klang

Today at 4:21 PM

Foxbat said:
Even AT&T farmed out their Email to Yahoo! years ago.

I still have one of those although I've been trying to wean myself off it.

JSheridan

Today at 4:51 PM

Among my many email accounts I still have a .netscape.net which AOL assimilated a while back.

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EarDemon

Today at 8:25 PM

Yep, I got the notification a few days ago. I'm not totally surprised.

Never used the address for anything, so no big loss to me.

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meStevo

Lifetime Supporter

Last reply Today at 8:24 PM · posted in TV Shows

The Diplomat (Netflix)

Starting a thread klang !

After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.

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klang

Oct 16, 2025

Probably starting season 3 tonight.

meStevo

Oct 16, 2025

Finished it this evening. General impressions with no story spoilers, but will spoil it anyways as it just came out today.

Not quite as impactful of a finale as past seasons I thought, we'll see how far down the rabbit hole things go as the latest plot twists and turns unravel. Thought this season had a full episode or two too much rom-com style disagreements, but it was more or less paid off later. Ultimately didn't enjoy that being more of a throughline in the stories this season compared to what I remember of the priors.

My least favorite of the 3 seasons, but still very good. Really wonder how far they'll go with things, hard to see a nuclear attack or something ever actually happening. They just had a better story to tell and more meaningful beats in the prior season.

KAB

Oct 17, 2025

Not in a hurry to watch it this time.

klang

Oct 21, 2025

Finished season 3 last night. Still one of my favorite shows.

Anyone else wonder if there might be something else going on with Callum? Seems to me he has too much access to Russian intelligence.

meStevo

Today at 8:24 PM

One episode into season 4 that dropped today...

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Bobby

Supporting Founder Lifetime Supporter

Last reply Today at 8:01 PM · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

4K Events Discussion Thread

This thread is a place to discuss the 4K events that appear on channel 540. We are getting, at this point, one college football game a week. Let's hope there is more coming.

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jsmit86

Oct 7, 2026

Regarding the no sound bug when watching 4K HDR events or DVR recordings with Dolby set to ON:
I got rolled back to H708 last night after getting an email from the support team. It fixed the bug.

The email indicated that they believed they found the issue, and if the fix works, they would roll it out via an update in the coming weeks.

So... we should see that bug exterminated in the near future.

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long_time_Dish

Saturday at 6:31 PM

148-04 says the NASCAR race on at noon on Sunday. Be interesting to see if it is.

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Bobby

Tuesday at 8:48 PM

MLB, Brewers at Dodgers, Thursday 10-15, 6PM PDT, Channel 148-02.

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Foxbat

Today at 6:24 PM

Bobby said:
MLB, Brewers at Dodgers, Thursday 10-15, 6PM PDT, Channel 148-02.

Bobby said:
CFB, Notre Dame at BYU, Saturday 10-27, 4:30PM PDT, Channel 148-03.

Bobby said:
CFB, Ohio State at Indiana, Saturday 10-17, 9AM PDT, Channel 148-01.
CFB, Arizona State at Texas Tech, Saturday 10-17, 12:30PM PDT, Channel 148-01.

Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.

I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.

edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.

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Bobby

Today at 7:31 PM

Foxbat said:
Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.

I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.

edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.

As I recall you have the Flex package. Do you sub to multisport? -02 is FS1 and -03 is ESPN. -01 is Fox so you would get that if you sub to locals.

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Bobby

Today at 8:01 PM

Bobby said:
As I recall you have the Flex package. Do you sub to multisport? -02 is FS1 and -03 is ESPN. -01 is Fox so you would get that if you sub to locals.

As an edit, you need to sub to the National Action Pack at $12 a month to receive those channels.

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