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My TRIAX SAT>IP Tuner has different LNB Options - Quattro/Quad&DiSEqC/Unicable. My Assumption (and initial playing with the HL input) is that there is internal switching - i.e. LNB1 input is not connected directly to tuner 1 but is infact switched as needed. When in Quad/DiSEqc Mode the LNB ...

With Astra 2F et al due to last for at least another 10 years satellite will be safe for that - but after that will it really be worth the investment for yet another 15 years for Astra 2H, 2I, and 2J? Time will tell of course, but if FTTP(ole) is widespread by then perhaps not. In any case...

Bloody hell the output level thing of this is insane, doing everything possible to weaken the signal is still wiping out the Freeview signal... Output to Spitter, to Splitter, to 6DB attentuator to 6DB attenuator, to Satellite side of a Diplexer on VHF-Channel 5 and it's still wiping out all...

Hence why I was asking about this one as it's one of the few with no specs published. All the boxes I have which definitely support MPEG4 do support VHF tuning thankfully. Aye, the Triax one AT800 sent out fixed reception on the bedroom set thankfully! The Labgear in the lounge, not so much...

What channels can you output on? - trying to find a clean UHF channel here is a nightmare (and 60+ are useless due to LTE even with a filter as the "thud thud thud" and picture interference on the PAL-I Modulators confirms), but all my DVB-T2/MPEG4 boxes can tune to VHF 5 to 12 so 5 to 9 should...

Now reporting 30153.22km and falling. The orbit trail makes it obvious the TLE predection doesn't think it's near geostationary yet - approx 32'W now and heading east. (was 38'W a few hours ago heading west)

Quite a few of the satellites in orbit (Astra 2A and Eutelsat 28A being obvious ones) are now operating well beyond there original design lives - I wonder if this is a combination of factors:- 1) The design life being the period it could operate with it's full complement of transponders in...

The combination of TV Headend and XBMC (now Kodi) is wonderful! My current setup is as follows:- TVHeadend and XBMC 12.2 running on an Acer Revo in my room as the server and also Bedroom TV Tuner. XBMC 13 Running on the Raspberry Pi in the lounge (second generation Model B - the first...

Back in the day NTL used to take the regional channels off-air from the ITV Digital signals*. BBC ONE North on the Nottingham network showed this pretty clearly at times, a little bit of breakup here and there (despite the pretty impressive aerial array they have at their headend). I believe...

Did the Pace DSR210F ever get made? Was supposed to be Europe's first dedicated satellite radio receiver around a decade ago.

On Freeview Channel 8 from the Waltham and Nottingham transmitters. Launches 16:00 Tuesday 27th May.

Indeed - being able to stream BBC ONE HD over your internet connection straight from TVHeadend to XBMC with pretty much no lag is awesome :) (80mpbs down, 20mbps up at home; 100mbps down at work and 13mbps down at my parents)

My particular receiver is at the end of a very long cable run (about 50m half of which is TV coax the other half Sky shotgun cable - and yeas I know how crappy that is, satellite cable won't fit through the gaps under the doors and I can't drill holes) - Eurobird, 1N, and 2F all show 97%+ in...

28 at end of life (about a year ago).

Hmm the 2E UK spot is showing surprisingly low strengths here (East Midlands). The BBC services on 1N were in the high 60's. 2E European - (don't have any channels on this beam) 2E UK Spot - 58% strength (BBC ONE Oxford) 2A North - 63% strength (Kiss) 2F Euro - 65% strength (Motors TV) 2A...