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Yep, we have 30 XD300 (or 330?) receivers we now need to get rid of. Tell me, is there *anything* we can do with these other than chuck them out? I'd have thought it's not even worth eBay'ing them...

Antenna1, I just realised I'm talking at cross-purposes ... the problem with trying to talk about work on a Sunday :-p The world cup is of course on Al Jaz Sports which is on 26.0E and is independent of what OSN is doing. But the info about OSN ditching 25.5E is valuable too. Darn, I liked...

Oh dear. Thanks for mentioning this - I had no idea that this was their plan. Any idea on timeframe - specifically, before, or after, the world cup?

Thanks for letting me know about this - I was under the impression this is still up in the air, i.e. nobody knows if one of the MENA networks is going to pick it up? Again we'll fall back to Sky for this if we have to. Hmm, strange, we have no probs with 28.2E, 7.0W or 25.5/26.0E in Mallorca...

Well, speaking of bizarre reception stories, and hopefully not to go off topic too much.... we crossed the Atlantic from Gib to the Caribbean (and back) over the Christmas period and received viewable Sky TV (not on all Astra 2's beams of course) up until 21 deg 53.50 N, 47 deg 33.67 W - more or...

Well, luckily we also have 30x Sky HD receivers, so we'll be OK there hopefully, so long as we don't sail too far west. But thanks for pointing that out. It's tricky for me as I know bugger-all about football, the various leagues, seasons, etc. But I think with Sky and OSN and Al Jaz Sports...

That's a good point - that model doesn't support MPEG-4. The HDCI-5000-S (which I can only find references to if I let Google include dutch-language results) does support MPEG-4, and has 2 x CI slots. I've done some more digging on Satbeams.com and it seems that with both the BADR4/6 and...

Hi there, I do the A/V and IT for a large (133 metre) superyacht and we are about to chuck out our old Orbit receivers (Phillips XD330) and install new receivers for OrbitShowtime. The yacht-owner's family is very football-mad, and as the world cup is going to be happening during the summer...