There are MPEG-4 Turbo 8PSK FTA receivers, but were designed to steal Dish signals because they can't get regular DVB-S2 stuff, (if i remember correctly) some months ago there was a heads up adivising users not to confuse the 'fake' DVB-S2 boards that pirates kept selling as the real thing for FTA, and would prove of no use to us FTAers.
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I've never noticed any of those add on boards that the pirates use being advertised as being for DVB-S2. Usually they just say 8PSK, or something like that. I think I asked a question once because one of the official dealers of one of those add on cards advertised that the card as being able to receive several channels that are on DVB-S2 transponders. I asked whether in fact they were somehow capable of getting both Turbo 8PSK and DVB-S2 8PSK. Never got a response from anyone who knew for sure, just people who were guessing. I also asked one of the dealers too, and never got a reply back. It's likely that they can't do DVB-S2, but you never know. I know that some firmware versions of the CS-8100 have some menus that suggest that they were trying to make THAT receiver do both, but it didn't work on Turbo from what I could see.
But I wouldn't call them "'fake' DVB-S2 boards ". They aren't trying to fool anyone into thinking that they are DVB-S2, FTA's aren't their target buyers. I think that just some of the dealers don't know the difference, and saw some 8PSK listings on Lyngsat, and made a mistake.
I also wouldn't say that they are "of no use to us FTAers" either. There are a few FTA channels that can be received with them. It's always good to have the capability to lock any transponder that might eventually pop up a FTA channel.
While not one of the add on boards you're mentioning, my Genpix is a really nice receiver. In addition to the Turbo 8PSK, it does DCII ZK, DSS, and regular DVB. I just wish that it had more FEC choices for the Turbo QPSK.
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Can't imagine why they would want to hang here when there are sites dedicated to just what you are talking about.
