Best Digiboxes for Fringe reception

[iceman]

No need for a telephone line for recording....SKY+ works OK in Cyprus.(activating the recording function could be a pain tho)

 

[abdou_moh_ahm]

Many thanks

 

[iceman]

@arnizilla
You are posting in the wrong section for help on Technomate!!!

 

[rolfw]

arnizilla's post removed, along with a couple of other duplicates which were splattered across the forum.

 

[maniacop32]

are these same receivers with same tuner?if not is there a great difference between them and which one is best?

 

[steffan_st]

are these same receivers with same tuner?if not is there a great difference between them and which one is best?

Don't know if they have the same tuners,but if they have don't be too shure both of them are good for fringe if that's what you're after.

It also depends on how the rest of the receiver handles the signal,just read about this in one of the latest issues of Tele Satellite .

 

[maniacop32]

Ok , after i did a better search i found that pace 2600c1 and pace ds430n might look the same but have different tuners .Queshion .Is there a great difference or its just a small one.Does it worth the extra money to buy 2600c1 rather than a ds430n ?Please , anybody out there especially from cyprus who tryed both?

 

[Grande_Assiette]

Dear "Ice"

If you have bought a *retail* SKY + and the SKY card is in your name / you have bought from a "sorted" supplier, turning on the record facility without a tel. line in Cyprus is NO problem at all.

I turned on one SKY + 160 and two SKY + Pace 3100's yesterday..

GA

No need for a telephone line for recording....SKY+ works OK in Cyprus.(activating the recording function could be a pain tho)

 

[Grande_Assiette]

Hi Manicop,

IMHO the DS430N isn't nearly as good as the 2600C1 in Cyprus.. but as Iceman says, we *love* the new Thompson SKY + 160..


The old Pace Javlin mini box, was very good, too, but only has one scart socket

GA

Ok , after i did a better search i found that pace 2600c1 and pace ds430n might look the same but have different tuners .Queshion .Is there a great difference or its just a small one.Does it worth the extra money to buy 2600c1 rather than a ds430n ?Please , anybody out there especially from cyprus who tryed both?

 

[Corrigapp]

Ok , after i did a better search i found that pace 2600c1 and pace ds430n might look the same but have different tuners .Queshion .Is there a great difference or its just a small one.Does it worth the extra money to buy 2600c1 rather than a ds430n ?Please , anybody out there especially from cyprus who tryed both?

These links might help:

link 1

link 2

Corrigap

 

[simonskyman]

the 2600 and 430 look the same from the front but if you look carefully behind you will see that the input connector on the 430 is lower than on the 2600.the tuner on the 430 is the new single chip type or zero if.the 2600 is of the old can type.i had both running side by side and when say,bbc was at a level that it was pixellating on the 430,the 2600 was playing fine.This is important over here in cyprus when we have to use 2.7 or 3 metre dishes.This comparison was done when the 430 first appeared on the marketmore than a year ago.I dont know if this years models are better or not.

 

[maniacop32]

cheers simon.

 

[bignick]

Hi

I've now upgraded my dish to 2.4m Famaval with Invacom C120 Quad and adjustable feedhorn (wider feed than my 2.2m dish). I am running both a Pace sky+ 3100 and a Pace minibox on it just now. Ever since I got the sky+ box I have been less than impressed with its fringe reception. This has been particularly noticable now that I'm getting some BBC reception - the minibox completely out performs the Sky plus unit. I realise that I won't get BBC for more than a few hours a day without putting extention petals on the dish, but I don't want to run a minibox just so I can watch some BBC and ITV (Swapping cards all the time is a real bore!).

Has anyone tried the Thompson Sky+ box for astra 2D reception yet?

Will it perform as well (or better than) the Pace 2600 or minibox?

Iceman, what size dish would you normally need to bring in a C4 reception north of the 'Border'? Round these parts I'd expect the kind of reception with nothing less than a 1.8m dish (and a quality one at that)

Cheers

Nick

Just to give an example to prove THOMSON SKY+ 160's excelent tuner.
I noticed it clears channel4 on my 1.5cm motorised offset dish in the afternoons..the picture now & again breaks up but still watchable..
I've tested almost all makes & models of disgiboxes on this same 1.5cm offset Jonsa+0.4dB Sharp LNB...This is the only box clearing channel4..
I am really impressed with this box :-thumb1

iceman

 

[Likvid]

You don't need to hold to just Sky digiboxes, you can choose whatever box you like as NDS works in a dragon cam.

Hi

I've now upgraded my dish to 2.4m Famaval with Invacom C120 Quad and adjustable feedhorn (wider feed than my 2.2m dish). I am running both a Pace sky+ 3100 and a Pace minibox on it just now. Ever since I got the sky+ box I have been less than impressed with its fringe reception. This has been particularly noticable now that I'm getting some BBC reception - the minibox completely out performs the Sky plus unit. I realise that I won't get BBC for more than a few hours a day without putting extention petals on the dish, but I don't want to run a minibox just so I can watch some BBC and ITV (Swapping cards all the time is a real bore!).

Has anyone tried the Thompson Sky+ box for astra 2D reception yet?

Will it perform as well (or better than) the Pace 2600 or minibox?

Iceman, what size dish would you normally need to bring in a C4 reception north of the 'Border'? Round these parts I'd expect the kind of reception with nothing less than a 1.8m dish (and a quality one at that)

Cheers

Nick

 

[maniacop32]

dragoncam and any other satreceiver with ci can play the sky card but won t upgrade keys so you constantly have to insert card back to the "dodgybox" to get new keys.Hey Nick,are you having any regrets for upgrating.....?

 

[Grande_Assiette]

Has anyone tried the Thompson Sky+ box for astra 2D reception yet?

Will it perform as well (or better than) the Pace 2600 or minibox?

Iceman, what size dish would you normally need to bring in a C4 reception north of the 'Border'? Round these parts I'd expect the kind of reception with nothing less than a 1.8m dish (and a quality one at that)

Cheers

Nick

Dear Nick,

Obviously, I'm not Iceman, but I'm a BIG fan of the Thompson 160+ for "pulling in" all channels - not just C4 - so YES it is good as a fringe area unit to "pull in " BBC/ ITV stuff on 2D, but some units perform better than others for some reason I have yet to fathom... "Goods ones" are BETTER (IMHO) than the Pace 2600 or the Javelin Mini box.

All 160's are better than the Pace 3100 in the same way that all 2600's are better than DS430Ns.. WHY did Pace change this unit? :-(

GA

 

[bignick]

None at all maniacop, cheers for all the help :-thumb1

dragoncam and any other satreceiver with ci can play the sky card but won t upgrade keys so you constantly have to insert card back to the "dodgybox" to get new keys.Hey Nick,are you having any regrets for upgrating.....?

 

[jin6x]

Hi

I've now upgraded my dish to 2.4m Famaval with Invacom C120 Quad and adjustable feedhorn (wider feed than my 2.2m dish). I am running both a Pace sky+ 3100 and a Pace minibox on it just now. Ever since I got the sky+ box I have been less than impressed with its fringe reception. This has been particularly noticable now that I'm getting some BBC reception - the minibox completely out performs the Sky plus unit. I realise that I won't get BBC for more than a few hours a day without putting extention petals on the dish, but I don't want to run a minibox just so I can watch some BBC and ITV (Swapping cards all the time is a real bore!).

Has anyone tried the Thompson Sky+ box for astra 2D reception yet?

Will it perform as well (or better than) the Pace 2600 or minibox?

Iceman, what size dish would you normally need to bring in a C4 reception north of the 'Border'? Round these parts I'd expect the kind of reception with nothing less than a 1.8m dish (and a quality one at that)

Cheers

Nick

This may not help you but I'm on a 2.4m Famaval, feedhorn unknown with a 0.3 quad Invacon LNB, using 2 Panasonic DSB30's. Weather permitting, I get BBC 24/7, with an occasional slight drop out around 9-10 pm. Ch4 and others are OK. I live in Peyia. I am about to upgrade to a Pace DS430n as one of the Panasonic's is on the way out.

 

[bignick]

I wouldn't bother with the DS430n if I were you! Reports of its fringe reception seem over stated to me. Just cos it looks like a 2600 it don't mean it acts like a 2600. See if you can borrow one to test first - it may save you some money and hassle!

This may not help you but I'm on a 2.4m Famaval, feedhorn unknown with a 0.3 quad Invacon LNB, using 2 Panasonic DSB30's. Weather permitting, I get BBC 24/7, with an occasional slight drop out around 9-10 pm. Ch4 and others are OK. I live in Peyia. I am about to upgrade to a Pace DS430n as one of the Panasonic's is on the way out.

 

[dxsat]

I wouldn't bother with the DS430n if I were you! Reports of its fringe reception seem over stated to me. Just cos it looks like a 2600 it don't mean it acts like a 2600. See if you can borrow one to test first - it may save you some money and hassle!

I have both the Panasonic 30 and the Pace 430n and their performance is identical, apart from the frequent crashes on the Panasonic.
I tested a 2600 in Madrid recently and was surprised how good it was- slightly slower of course but showing clear picture on a very weak signal, better than you would expect on the current model.