DSR-920 Unit ID's for DCII and VCII + RS the same?

[mclovin69]

Seriously? Another thread in the wrong place for the same thing?

Forget the VCRS. Like a poster said in the other thread, unless you have a time machine it's useless. That was a good one. Time machine.

You should probably forget the 920 too, especially since you said you don't have a BUD. Even if you did what you can watch with a 920 is extremely limited. Extremely.

Ahh I got ya, these 920s are made pretty much for the 4DTV standard ONLY (kinda like a commercial STB for cable or DirecTV). It doesn't have all the options that one would want?

 

[primestar31]

I agree, don't worry about the VCII+RS then. I already bought a battery for it, so I will probably try to temp power it / replace it first for practice. I'm in Electronics Engineering so I may find a use for it someday, or just as a museum to demonstrate VCII, NTSC sync suppression / Color burst shifting, or DES. Maybe hook it up to a logic analyzer and dick around with it (well kind of hard without a VCII stream), or use it as a doorstop.

As far as the time machine goes, I'm 32, if I could go back to the 90s for just 24 hours, boy that would be fun. The good old days.

If you ever get that time machine going, please get me the Lotto numbers for that $620 million dollar one from a bit ago.

Thanks!

 

[mclovin69]

Imagine if aliens had a mirror sat say, 15 light years away on their planet? Then, you could get all the channels you used to get (and all the good fights, etc) when you can't find a recording. Plus some alien TV

 

[rsmithwi]

The good old days of analog VCII subscription tv. Had quite a few channels in my package and it was not expensive back then. The picture quality was great

 

[mclovin69]

Or sell it for $95-$100 on ebay:

Is there anything else I should check on this DSR-920 before I sell it? I replaced the batteries in both the DSR mainboard and VC2 (even though it's worthless), and realized that the one on the mainboard was completely dead (0 volts), however the one in the vc2 was OK. The Unit ID and Receiver Number are still there, as well as the original settings by the last user. Maybe something in diagnostics? I'm pretty sure I dodged the bullet, I had it plugged in the whole time, and parallel-swapped the battery. Everything seems OK, but I do not have a dish to test it. Is it OK, or is there a possibility it's toast? Sorry for all the questions, the only time I've touched a C/Ku band was in the media room in high school.

 

[mclovin69]

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The good old days of analog VCII subscription tv. Had quite a few channels in my package and it was not expensive back then. The picture quality was great

If only I knew then what I knew now, i'd have so much fun. Found a spec on VC2 (Dated 2/88 - I was 4). The pic is sync suppressed / color burst shift, and the audio was DES encrypted. There was even a way you could back up your unit, so you could restore it if your battery died.

 

[richyrich]

Where does the time machine go when the guide shows all providers channels; all the new satellite names; all the free mpeg-2 sd formatted broadcasts; and all of the pre-determined frequencies of scpc and mcpc listed into A SATELLITE RECEIVER you get to own? Today one provider will set its accounting of the subscriber channels. If you live in Canada; the numbers of channels available sky-rockets this equipments value. All Commercial carriers of HDTV are on a different platform of timing and Commercialism (dc-2+); same product and line, however.

Those days are gone; the units really do not even need the battery. Skyvision and the rest do because it does. Their newest Micro-sift "thing" is now a PC Motorola does; but with no features like "the alls" it used to have and allow US Citizens access to what it can do (guide, everything, all chn.).

I will still say, however, that if it could; it would! Today, it is only the little train that did; and now it does what it can! Position the best; pol. using servo 90 best; and tuner "in" at very long lengths (350+) of ca"bling"@ net nobody has such sing in sing!