Although I agree with much of what you said, I'm confused by your statement that the small dishes are not satellite feeds? A satellite feed is one which comes from the satellites. This covers dishnet and directv. You also stated that small dishes are not line of sight like CBand. This statement is also untrue. If you are not line of sight, you wont' get a picture on a small dish either. They are pointed directly at the satellites and get their signals directly from the satellites. The difference is that all small dishes are digital and only some CBand and KU is digital. Small dishes are the same as anything else from a satellite except it is KU only. The only other difference is that dishnet and directv use circular polarization rather than linear. but that is the only difference.
Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "bigfox90210" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:26 PM Subject: [TVRO] Re: Prime Star dish > --- In [email protected], "Stephen Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 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 >> it's good that there is someone out there that believes C-Band, for > I also know that there is plenty of wildfeds and some TV stations as > well. I love the sound and picture quality with c-band and no small > dish company nor CATV will match the quality with C-band or the Over > the air quality given the reason with C-band, I have noted the signal > is more direct "Line OF Site". This isn't the case with CATV nor the > small dishes. For awhile back I have posted about the quality with C- > band and The small dish companies, along with CATV use a backhual > system when it comes to distributing the poor quality of signal to > one's location. I just don't quite understand how these small little > dishes could claim they are a satellite system, to which they are > not.Would someone out there from this group know the kbsp for dish > and DirecTV? Thanks. >> ----- 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 >> > >> > >> > > > > ------------------------------------ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > MPEG2 Charts and Info: http://www.global-cm.net/mpeg2central.html > -----------------------------------------------------------------Yahoo! > Groups Links > > > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.10 - Release Date: 5/7/2008 > 12:00 AM > >
