TV Programming

[danbouck]

Figured I would start a new thread on this. What's better Sat, cable, FTA? I'm actually getting rid of Bell for $$$ reasons so i'm curious to hear what you think.

[2 tone z71]

FTA ive got Captive Works @ Coolsat damn Coolsat sucks ,CW rocks lil down time,Bells prices are going beyond reasonable for all there services

Edited April 5, 2008 by 2 Tone Z71

[Gerritt]

Wow.... Did realize people were interested....

 

I suppose I should give you a bit of Background.. I started toying with the battery card(DTV), Then came the F, H and HU and now the yet to be publicly available P4 and p5.... and in between all this... there was a whole lotta crap that went on... Bootstraps, to make fried cards work again etc, Emulators, ECM's, Black Sunday...These are just some of the terms from back in the day..

 

I made a decent living in the old days.. had a thriving web business and was doing well... Why? we were in a "Grey Market" The logic was If you could not buy a loaf of bread in the corner store... well then how could you steal it? well we as Canadians could not legally purchase/subscribe to DTV... so therefor how could we steal something in which we could NOT buy.......

 

 

People were winning in court... Some were losing.. Anton Pillar orders were being served... it was not pretty.. I know of one person in particular that was sued for 19 million.... and lost... why? He was dieing of cancer and could not be in the US to defend himself.. this is when I decided enough was enough.. and got out of the game... But at that time it was still technically legal in Canada.. as we were waiting on the Supreme Court Trial... I did not care.. I wanted out.. There are alot of details I have to leave out for obvious reasons.. you can blame the CRTC for the current garbage we have...

 

 

And that is what I did.... enough was enough...

 

this is how I got interested in satellite TV... it was more then just a hobby for me...

 

I am with BEV now as a paying sub.... why? LACK OF OPTIONS!.... Starchoice sucks!

 

 

I do have two FTA receivers as well... Both are Pansats.. I think I have had every pansat model there is up to my present ones.... I run two 3500 SD's

 

I also have brand new STB I was given to test (I am a mod on another forum dedicated to FTA) it is called the ICon it is brand spanking new and supported by blacklist..

 

Dan if you have any questions regarding any further details required please feel free to pm me

 

But Do NOT rely on FTA.... as updates need to happen etc..

 

G

 

 

 

PS. Right now I am running a BEV 6100HD receiver.. Going to the 9000 series PVR shortly.

[2 tone z71]

yep FTA is only good when it works around Xmas it was down for weeks ,always have a backup FTA is a Hobby

[forrest]

Different things will suit different people:

 

OTA:

Pros: Best signal quality, period. Free (aside from basic hardware)

Cons: may not have all the channels you want. No PPV. Weather can interfere, where you live matters.

 

Bell/Starchoice:

Pros: PPV, a lot of channels.

Cons: Signal quality is compromized for business reasons by Bell. $$$. Last I checked it does not get all the OTA stuff. Satellite interference due to weather.

 

 

Rogers/Cogeco/Cable:

Pros: PPV a lot of channels

Cons: Service is spotty, good in some areas, bad in others. Signal quality is compromized. $$$

 

FTA:

Pros: "free", there are actually some free unencrypted channels, US stations

Cons: not exactly legal. Signal quality. units have to be flashed every couple of weeks so its inconvenient and sometimes you can miss your show.

 

 

forrest

[danbouck]

Thanks guys, this is very helpfull!

[Terry]

FTA getting the free channels are fine, but not enough choices for most people

FTA using third party bins to get bell or dish, if you don't mind that it is illegal,then think of it as a hobby at best, because all but one make, is down as much as it is up ..a hobby

 

I have the expressvu 9242 dual tuner dual record HDTV receiver with the big channel package...

[taper]

I have to agree with FTA, but only as an add on. I run a bell sub and FTA to play with. For FTA I am running the Viewsat Ultra version 2, this so far has been a great STB.

[Gerritt]

taper.... TDG is the devil..... Viewsat and TDG are the ONLY FTA peeps to have been served....simply put because he is a horses arse... I know first hand.. would you like a copy ? I would not expect much by the way of service in the near future.... he is not expected to be able to afford his own defence.. just a word of advice

 

 

G

[taper]

Gerritt you lost me, is he the owner of viewsat? So far there support has been fantastic. What would you recomend? By the way how do you like the one you are trying out. Also what do you mean by blacklist.