HB13DISH
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There are numerous adult channels on Hot Bird, both FTA and encrypted.
The FTA channels are mostly for telephone services and usually have appalling quality.
The encrypted channels are either part of a package or on it's own.
The dedicated ones can be watched by buying a smartcard with an optimal price for a subscription of 12 months.
Unless one has watched the channels, it is very difficult to decide on which smartcard to buy and a lot of subscribers who bought the 12 months smartcards, discover in the first few hours that they have got a bad deal and that they are stuck with a card that gives low quality channels and lousy programming for a whole year.
The quality of the channels can be easily measured for the Dreambox models, even without opening the channels, by using a plugin called bitrate monitor.
I installed bitrate monitor version 1.3 on DreamBox 7000S.
Below is shown a table of the encrypted channels on Hot Bird with the bitrate for their video and audio so that one can check in advance what to expect from these channels in terms of quality and hopefully it will help to make the right decision on which smartcard to buy.
Use the horizontal and vertical scrolls on the html page to navigate.
Channels with video bitrate below 2000 kb/s should be avoided since the picture would hardly have VCR quality and not what we expect in this modern age a DVD or even HD quality.
Don't be tempted to buy a smartcard which has tens of channels before you can somehow see all the channels in their package.
In fact you would be better of with just one good quality channel than tens of low quality channels.
I dare these operators to open their channels for few days every month so that viewers can see what they would actually get when they part with their money.
Better still to avoid the possibility of minors watching these channels, provide a smartcard for a whole week for testing and after that see if you want to be stuck for a whole year with such quality and content.
Another point to take into consideration is if the package has a good website where one can get a weekly or monthly schedule, with the exact time for each feature film so that one wouldn't miss the begining or the end.
[iframe]http://www.satellite-newbie.co.uk/sat1/adult_bitrate_hb.html[/iframe]
The FTA channels are mostly for telephone services and usually have appalling quality.
The encrypted channels are either part of a package or on it's own.
The dedicated ones can be watched by buying a smartcard with an optimal price for a subscription of 12 months.
Unless one has watched the channels, it is very difficult to decide on which smartcard to buy and a lot of subscribers who bought the 12 months smartcards, discover in the first few hours that they have got a bad deal and that they are stuck with a card that gives low quality channels and lousy programming for a whole year.
The quality of the channels can be easily measured for the Dreambox models, even without opening the channels, by using a plugin called bitrate monitor.
I installed bitrate monitor version 1.3 on DreamBox 7000S.
Below is shown a table of the encrypted channels on Hot Bird with the bitrate for their video and audio so that one can check in advance what to expect from these channels in terms of quality and hopefully it will help to make the right decision on which smartcard to buy.
Use the horizontal and vertical scrolls on the html page to navigate.
Channels with video bitrate below 2000 kb/s should be avoided since the picture would hardly have VCR quality and not what we expect in this modern age a DVD or even HD quality.
Don't be tempted to buy a smartcard which has tens of channels before you can somehow see all the channels in their package.
In fact you would be better of with just one good quality channel than tens of low quality channels.
I dare these operators to open their channels for few days every month so that viewers can see what they would actually get when they part with their money.
Better still to avoid the possibility of minors watching these channels, provide a smartcard for a whole week for testing and after that see if you want to be stuck for a whole year with such quality and content.
Another point to take into consideration is if the package has a good website where one can get a weekly or monthly schedule, with the exact time for each feature film so that one wouldn't miss the begining or the end.
[iframe]http://www.satellite-newbie.co.uk/sat1/adult_bitrate_hb.html[/iframe]
