CBand is not dying. Only some analog on CBand is dissappearing and being replced with digital. There is many many digital feeds on both KU and CBand which can be gotten with an inexpensive FTA receiver. These would be mostly all MPeg feeds but they are all over the place. CBand is excellent for this. Many of the old "wild feeds" such as syndicated stuff is slowly making the shift to MPeg digital. Any cheap FTA receiver will get them just fine on both C and Ku bands. There are still quite a lot of syndicated and news feeds available in analog yet. Ask any engineer at a local television station and they will tell you it is still quite active and will probably continue for a while.
Just my opinion. Steve AB8YY ----- Original Message ----- From: "johanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [TVRO] Prime Star dish > Thanks for the great post Rod. I've been an inactive member of this forum > for way too long. Back in 1981 I installed, yes I installed my first C > band dish in Seattle. I was a rank beginner and had one heck of a time > getting everything to work. The worst mistake I made was ordering a hand > crank to change dish positions. I soon upgraded. Then in the early 90s I > added a DirecTV system to my home. (someone else installed it) Now just > north-west of Seattle is Vancouver Island in BC, CA where I and six other > relatives have a primitive summer cottage and share a Star Choice system, > which is in my name. > > Now that I am retired I come to Mexico during the cold weather months up > North, where as a snowbird I have experimented with a 922 4DTV, DISH > Network and Star Choice. > > My favorite system now that C band is dying is www.starchoice.com but > being a C band dish-head I wont admit it. > > Pete KD7ION > > > From: kb8dns > > Hello all! > A little about myself... I've been a "dish head" for about....... > ....................... > ........................................... > ........................................... > ....................................... > > Rod KB8DNS > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > MPEG2 Charts and Info: http://www.global-cm.net/mpeg2central.html > -----------------------------------------------------------------Yahoo! > Groups Links > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.10 - Release Date: 5/7/2008 > 12:00 AM > >
