| Re: Okay, now what???? |
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| Uncle Davey (noway@jose.com) |
2004/10/27 07:36 |
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> I have no experience with a stand alone sat radio receiver, so I don't
know
> what they are capable of, I listen over a Humax decoder and a normal TV.
> When listening to the radio option, the Humax sends a jpg file of some
sheet
> music on an old sepia photograph, with the word "radio" on it to the TV
> screen. I can also switch off the TV and listen through my wife's music
> centre over the SCART
> connection between the two.
>
> I don't know of any advantages in buying a separate satellite radio when
the
> TV decoders are already kitted out for radio.
What I should add is that you can certainly programme the Humax to look for
different frequencies and symbol rates just by selecting the manual
programme finding option. It at once finds names and allocates programme
numbers to all the TV and radio signals it finds on each transponder.
Uncle Davey
>
> Uncle Davey
>
> news:417f1313_4@127.0.0.1...
> > This is interesting. I wonder if this could be used in North America as
> > well. While we don't have the magnitude of FTA radio as Europe, there
> still
> > are a few hundred channels. For example, Bell ExpressVu in Canada's
music
> > channels, Galaxie, are FTA DVB, not even Viaccess. However, they use a
> > circularly polarized LNB like most of the DBS services here, and also
have
> a
> > different LO. With a standalone sat radio receiver such as this Pace
> unit,
> > could you program in different LO frequencies and different symbol
rates?
> >
> >
> > "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
> > news:clm3j2$b93$0@pita.alt.net...
> > >
> > > news:417e4fd9$1@nntp.zianet.com...
> > > > I see the ad for the converter.
> > > >
> > > > What kind of satellite service do I need to subscribe to in order to
> use
> > > > this converter? Sirius? XM? Or something else?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > You can get quite a bit in Europe without subscribibg to anything, if
> you
> > > have a Viaccess decoder. I have 2 dishes pointing at 3 satellites,
> namely
> > > Thor, Hotbird 13E, and Sirius. I get about 400 stations of which at
> least
> > > 60% are free-to-air.
> > >
> > > Uncle Davey
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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