Recent content by ovis

Yup, the easiest way to go and a good price. Great!!

You're right. I've just bought a cam on the off chance it would work in my old 9600s so's to give more receivers a chance to become available. It doesn't work. All channels (fta and scrambled) display as if scrambled. For Vark, the activation includes requests for codice fiscale and an address...

Your dish is probably looking at Astra 1 and Hotbird as the spread of a dual lnb setup is only about 6 degrees. For Switzerland it would also bee logical to receive German,Fench and Italian broadcasts which are abundant on the two satellites you're looking at. The diseqc control is built into...

Thanks Danit, was afraid that was the case. Was just looking at the Humax iCord HD and HD+ models which have a pvr. The + model may be bit of an overkill....

Let me re-phrase that: Any CI equipped rcvr should be compatible with the CAM and its card - that's why it's SUPPOSED to be a Common Interface? Or is that just wishful thinking??

Sure, needs the CAM and card but from what little I have read (understood?) is that the problem lies with the Nagravision being rcvr specific almost, else any CAM equipped rcvr would work? Don't know the ins and outs of it. Anyone help please?

Have been following TiVu sat website and a few weeks back they listed the Fuba ODE820 HD as being compatible. I live in the mountains at the northern end of Lazio and can't see the terrestial signal (which is always hiccupping) so have been looking for an HD set TiVu compatible. Notice however...

Hi Tom. Am located in Lazio where it joins the Marche/Abruzzo borders. Am using an 80cm dish to pick up Astra 2a beams on which you can get bbc news and a number of fta film channels, and a second 60cm dish for Hotbird for local Italian channels and other english news channels. I thought of...

Headintheclouds....Further to this.. bought a FTA rcvr yesterday and downloaded 28.2 channels and was able to watch without reboot. I believe the 9600 was brought out around the time BSkyB kicked off and probably Nokia hoped to be on the spec. list but they weren't. Maybe there is something...

Headintheclouds.. no not fixed- am running firmware CI2.6 and was wondering whether or not to try 3.1. I have downloaded it but the windows computer I have doesn't have a serial port only USB. I know one can get a USB-Serial converter but the software installer is 98 orientated and mine is XP...

First let me say thanks to all those who have tried to help. Have tried different dishes and even loaded just one transponder on Astra 2A south to see what would happen - same reboots with err 5. While hunting around found someone on ********* who reported that he had found that a 9600 with...

Yup, good idea, will give it a try. Looking at the signal quality indicator though the 28e signal is stronger than the hotbird! Any ideas on the "err 5" announcement? tks pete

Am not using dvb 2000

Analoguesat - All channels on Astra 2A South beam. Let me try to give you the picture - when I am watching an Astra channel the receiver works for about 6 minutes or so and then I get an "err 5" on the display and the rcvr reboots. This does not happen on Hotbird channels. I have reduced the...

Ok. Thanks to both for your help and suggestions. The footprint for Astra 2A south appears to cover the centre of Italy easily but then its only indicative and you could well be right on the dish size. Will try with a later software and hope it cures any corruptions that may have occurred and...