Satellite FTA Receiver
 

Could somebody recommend good satellite FTA receiver-recorder with HDMI, component and USB output?

Thanks,
GB

Satellite FTA Receiver
 

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:28:42 +0000, GB wrote:

Could somebody recommend good satellite FTA receiver-recorder with HDMI,
component and USB output?

http://www.ftasat4less.com/co81hdpvrfta.html

But personally, I'd use a PC.

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On Nov 9, 1:30 am, Wes Newell wrote:

But personally, I'd use a PC.


Wes, please elaborate. You've tweaked my interest, but my knowledge of
free-to-air is almost non-existant.

Satellite FTA Receiver
 

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:29:23 -0800, kastnna wrote:

On Nov 9, 1:30 am, Wes Newell wrote:

But personally, I'd use a PC.


Wes, please elaborate. You've tweaked my interest, but my knowledge of
free-to-air is almost non-existant.

A sat receiver receives signals just like an antenna does or you do off of
cable, just a little different. And like NTSC/ATSC/QAM tuner cards for a
PC you can buy satellite tuner cards for a PC that will work right along
with the other ones if you connect it to a dish. In the US, those cards
would be DVB-S cards. They are supported in mythtv which is a free Linux
app. I assume there's also windows support for them, but I couldn't say
since I don't use windows. I haven't ever used sat of any kind and only
looked into this because a cousin moved out to the sticks where and I
remember about sat from about 20 years ago that you could get for free. It
seems they've come a long way since then and the cost is no more than a
decent ATSC card and antenna setup. A really good dish with motor cost
about $150. the card cost under $100. With that, you could automatically
go from one satellite to another and get everything in the visible sky
which amounts to thousands of channels. or you could use a $50 fixed dish
and get a few hundred channels from one satellite and manually have to
point to another to get those. This may be all one would want. I don't
know. I'm perfectly happy with the channels I get over ATSC so I've only
thought about actually installing a dish for myself and probably won't.
But for people that live in areas where there limited OTA TV available it
seems like the perfect solution to me. There are ways of also getting the
so called premium channels too, but that involves either doing it
illegally, or paying for a subscription. I wouldn't do either, so that's
about all I know about that other than it's easy to do. I know there are
people here that have FTA sat dishes and they should be able to provide
you with much more info than I can. A search for FTA satellite will get
you tons of links. A standalone system would pretty much be plug and play
and cost as little as $150 and probably no more than $550 for a complete
motorized antenna and DVR receiver. A system for a PC would only need the
dish and card(s) and that would be the cheapest most versatile route IMO
if you already have the PC. Some links I've looked at;

http://www.ftasatellitesales.com/

http://www.ftasat4less.com/index.html

http://www.ftavideos.com/

And ebay.

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AMD cpu help http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php

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Thank you Wes,
another question:
If my HDTV -Sony KDL52XBR4 does have build in ATSC tuner, could I connect
satellite dish directly to the TV input?

GB

"Wes Newell" wrote in message
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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:29:23 -0800, kastnna wrote:

On Nov 9, 1:30 am, Wes Newell wrote:

But personally, I'd use a PC.


Wes, please elaborate. You've tweaked my interest, but my knowledge of
free-to-air is almost non-existant.

A sat receiver receives signals just like an antenna does or you do off of
cable, just a little different. And like NTSC/ATSC/QAM tuner cards for a
PC you can buy satellite tuner cards for a PC that will work right along
with the other ones if you connect it to a dish. In the US, those cards
would be DVB-S cards. They are supported in mythtv which is a free Linux
app. I assume there's also windows support for them, but I couldn't say
since I don't use windows. I haven't ever used sat of any kind and only
looked into this because a cousin moved out to the sticks where and I
remember about sat from about 20 years ago that you could get for free. It
seems they've come a long way since then and the cost is no more than a
decent ATSC card and antenna setup. A really good dish with motor cost
about $150. the card cost under $100. With that, you could automatically
go from one satellite to another and get everything in the visible sky
which amounts to thousands of channels. or you could use a $50 fixed dish
and get a few hundred channels from one satellite and manually have to
point to another to get those. This may be all one would want. I don't
know. I'm perfectly happy with the channels I get over ATSC so I've only
thought about actually installing a dish for myself and probably won't.
But for people that live in areas where there limited OTA TV available it
seems like the perfect solution to me. There are ways of also getting the
so called premium channels too, but that involves either doing it
illegally, or paying for a subscription. I wouldn't do either, so that's
about all I know about that other than it's easy to do. I know there are
people here that have FTA sat dishes and they should be able to provide
you with much more info than I can. A search for FTA satellite will get
you tons of links. A standalone system would pretty much be plug and play
and cost as little as $150 and probably no more than $550 for a complete
motorized antenna and DVR receiver. A system for a PC would only need the
dish and card(s) and that would be the cheapest most versatile route IMO
if you already have the PC. Some links I've looked at;

http://www.ftasatellitesales.com/

http://www.ftasat4less.com/index.html

http://www.ftavideos.com/

And ebay.

--
Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org
My Tivo Experience http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/tivo.htm
Tivo HD/S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm
AMD cpu help http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php

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GB wrote:
Thank you Wes,
another question:
If my HDTV -Sony KDL52XBR4 does have build in ATSC tuner, could I
connect satellite dish directly to the TV input?

No.
--
Adrian

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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:44:14 +0000, GB wrote:

If my HDTV -Sony KDL52XBR4 does have build in ATSC tuner, could I
connect satellite dish directly to the TV input?

No. You could connect a regular antenna to it and get all the ATSC
channels. Most of them are HD.

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Tivo HD/S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm
AMD cpu help http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php

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On Nov 9, 5:05 pm, Wes Newell wrote:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:44:14 +0000, GB wrote:
If my HDTV -Sony KDL52XBR4 does have build in ATSC tuner, could I
connect satellite dish directly to the TV input?

No. You could connect a regular antenna to it and get all the ATSC
channels. Most of them are HD.


Thanks. Very informative. Living in "Alabamer" I see alot of those old
3'-5' dishes out in the boondocks. I always wondered what that was
about. I don't think I need to be adding anything to my setup as I am
quite content, but thanks again for the info.