SeBsZ
Member
- Joined
- Jan 3, 2009
- Messages
- 10
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 0
- Age
- 34
- My Satellite Setup
- SUPER DarkBox Rev 2008 HD
- My Location
- Malta
Hi there,
I have spent all day trying to solve my problem but haven't been able to manage.
Today I bought a "SUPER DarkBox Rev 2008 HD" satellite decoder to connect to my new HD TV using HDMI. NO problems here.
The problem is getting the DarkBox to find my satellite channels. I am a CanalDigitaal member which is Dutch. I live in Malta and receive Dutch TV channels. My previous satellite decoder works fine ('Strong' decoder).
The Dutch TV channels are on the Astra satellite 19.2. My previous non-HD satellite decoder works as we speak, so I imagine the cable is fine as is the position of the dish.
On the DarkBox, when I select the Astra satellite in the menu of satellites, I get a rather low "Power" - around 50% and the "Quality" is 0%. However, when I go up and select HotBird, I get 100% power and high quality. When I scan this satellite, I get around 1000 channels, though these do not include the Dutch channels I am looking for. When I perform a scan on the Astra satellite, I get in total 12 channels, mostly Italian or Spanish - "Vacanze TV" is one channel I remember it finds.
I can not understand what the problem is. I am not very smart with these Satellite settings. The DarkBox only has a few, including Diseqc which I don't know whether to turn off or 1,2,3,4. I have a fixed dish.
In total I have 2 decoders in my house - now 3 including the DarkBox. Both worked fine. I have therefore 2 cables coming from my dish - there are 2 LNBs which seem to cross cables and each go into a little "device" which I guess combines the signals into one cable.
One more thing I noticed is when I am in the transponder menu of Astra, and I scroll through the list, at some transponders the signal strength does shoot up. If I, however, scan just that transponder for channels, it still does not find any.
I have tried to give as much information as possible about my system. Hopefully someone will be able to help me out. I am new here, so I hope I posted this in the right section. I tried to find the one that was the best but forgive me if I made a mistake.
I have spent all day trying to solve my problem but haven't been able to manage.
Today I bought a "SUPER DarkBox Rev 2008 HD" satellite decoder to connect to my new HD TV using HDMI. NO problems here.
The problem is getting the DarkBox to find my satellite channels. I am a CanalDigitaal member which is Dutch. I live in Malta and receive Dutch TV channels. My previous satellite decoder works fine ('Strong' decoder).
The Dutch TV channels are on the Astra satellite 19.2. My previous non-HD satellite decoder works as we speak, so I imagine the cable is fine as is the position of the dish.
On the DarkBox, when I select the Astra satellite in the menu of satellites, I get a rather low "Power" - around 50% and the "Quality" is 0%. However, when I go up and select HotBird, I get 100% power and high quality. When I scan this satellite, I get around 1000 channels, though these do not include the Dutch channels I am looking for. When I perform a scan on the Astra satellite, I get in total 12 channels, mostly Italian or Spanish - "Vacanze TV" is one channel I remember it finds.
I can not understand what the problem is. I am not very smart with these Satellite settings. The DarkBox only has a few, including Diseqc which I don't know whether to turn off or 1,2,3,4. I have a fixed dish.
In total I have 2 decoders in my house - now 3 including the DarkBox. Both worked fine. I have therefore 2 cables coming from my dish - there are 2 LNBs which seem to cross cables and each go into a little "device" which I guess combines the signals into one cable.
One more thing I noticed is when I am in the transponder menu of Astra, and I scroll through the list, at some transponders the signal strength does shoot up. If I, however, scan just that transponder for channels, it still does not find any.
I have tried to give as much information as possible about my system. Hopefully someone will be able to help me out. I am new here, so I hope I posted this in the right section. I tried to find the one that was the best but forgive me if I made a mistake.