Dynasat Dish And This Box

[MisterMan]

I am living in a house and my roomate has the dynasat dish and the box in the photo but all we get is like Chinese and Indian channels. He is Thai and seems to think this is all we can get as that is what the service person who sold this cr*p to him told him.

I posted a long time ago in the tech forum too but I still dont get it.

Is there someone who can tell me where to go to get some English language channels? Or even how to pay for them legally?

Thanks.

There is no local cable where I live and I refuse to be robbed by UBC

[HDRIDER]

HI

Here you go, Google is your friend

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[MisterMan]

HI thanks for the link .. I was hoping someone here had first hand experience though..

[bellachg]

I am living in a house and my roomate has the dynasat dish and the box in the photo but all we get is like Chinese and Indian channels. He is Thai and seems to think this is all we can get as that is what the service person who sold this cr*p to him told him.

I posted a long time ago in the tech forum too but I still dont get it.

Is there someone who can tell me where to go to get some English language channels? Or even how to pay for them legally?

Thanks.

There is no local cable where I live and I refuse to be robbed by UBC

Look at www.lyngsat.com. Depending on which satellite your dish is directed at. I have my dish looking at Asiasat3S most of the time, and receive on one of the transponders: Deutsche Welle (german), TV5 (french, but most days of the week good movies with English subtitles), Jazeera News channell in English (very good), Russia Today also in English, interesting much of the time, Bloomberg financial. Asiasat3S is almost overhead. A little further East is Asiasat 2 with these interesting channels: Cubavision (spanish), France 24 (english) Deutsche Welle (mostly English), Luxe TV, RAI (italian), RTPi (Portuguese), RTR Planeta (russian station in English) and TVE (spanish). There are other satellites visible, but the above two are the most interesting ones with free channels as far as I am concerned. I watch the TV5 English subtitle movies all the time, a lot better than most of the Hollywood type of stuff on UBC/True

[MisterMan]

Aljazeera and French movies with English subtitles sounds perfect.. but who do I get to move it/ point it in the right direction? And how do I pay for more channels?

[Beacher]

Look at www.lyngsat.com. Depending on which satellite your dish is directed at. I have my dish looking at Asiasat3S most of the time, and receive on one of the transponders: Deutsche Welle (german), TV5 (french, but most days of the week good movies with English subtitles), Jazeera News channell in English (very good), Russia Today also in English, interesting much of the time, Bloomberg financial. Asiasat3S is almost overhead. A little further East is Asiasat 2 with these interesting channels: Cubavision (spanish), France 24 (english) Deutsche Welle (mostly English), Luxe TV, RAI (italian), RTPi (Portuguese), RTR Planeta (russian station in English) and TVE (spanish). There are other satellites visible, but the above two are the most interesting ones with free channels as far as I am concerned. I watch the TV5 English subtitle movies all the time, a lot better than most of the Hollywood type of stuff on UBC/True

Thanks for the low-down on what can be received with these types of dish systems. Since almost none of the channels appeal to me in any way (and these are the best) I'll keep my money and continue to use bit torrents.

[borovik]

I think - you will also receive all Thai tv channels in quality much better,that what comes from

normal terrestial broadcast if it matters to you;it may matter to your wife and Thai relatives.

[bellachg]

Aljazeera and French movies with English subtitles sounds perfect.. but who do I get to move it/ point it in the right direction? And how do I pay for more channels?

You can receive all kinds encrypted channels but there is really no practical way to buy the decrypter decoder facilities unless you buy the specialised equipment that is being sold or rented by the provider such as TRUE/UBC. By the way the UBC encripted channels are on Thaicom 2/3 a little further East at about 78 degrees longitude together with a bunch of other free channels.

To point your dish at Asiasat3S you best get a technician from the company that sold the dish to do it for you. You can do it yourself if you know what you are doing. Basically you point your dish first due south and then raise it up to about 81 degree elevation, then move it about 6 degrees to the left or east. There is a function in your decoder receiver box which lets you measure the strength of the received signal. Just keep moving the dish around in the general vicinity of what I described above until you get the strongest signal, and then leave it there. Then you have to "scan" that satellite for all the transponders which are sending out streams. As I say, unless you have some experience best let a technician do it for you, just make sure you get Asiasat3S at 105.5 degrees East. If you want to watch more than 1 satellite you should get a "rotor arm" and rotor box which will allow you to steer the dish direction automatically.

[MisterMan]

Hi Thanks so much for the info.. makes sense.. now all I have to do is convince the Thai to change from thaicom which is what we have..

How good are the Thai News Channels on Asiasat3?

[cpofc]

yes I have a dynasat dish, with two separate boxes - A Dreambox DM500-S and a Dynasat F1. Originally I could lock into the Sat Providing DREAMTV from the Philippines for free, the UBC/TRUE equivalent here. However piracy in the PI itself finally made them upgrade their encryption technique and it wasn't worth the trouble anymore. Besides it was very subject to rainfade and would be very frustrating through the rainy season.

I had the boys come around and lock it onto the PAS 8 Sat. I really only wanted the Australian Network anyway. It has a few FTA stations, the BBC and some others, it is limited but its ok for me.

Of course you can always get onto JSAT in Bangkok - check out their website and go have a chat to him.

There is heaps of info on the web, as a matter of a fact there is a whole 'sub-culture' of SATTV Enthusiasts and you can get some real good info from some very smart cookies.

[bellachg]

Hi Thanks so much for the info.. makes sense.. now all I have to do is convince the Thai to change from thaicom which is what we have..

How good are the Thai News Channels on Asiasat3?

There is not any. All the Thai stuff is on Thaicom.

[DrDave]

Hi Thanks so much for the info.. makes sense.. now all I have to do is convince the Thai to change from thaicom which is what we have..

How good are the Thai News Channels on Asiasat3?

What size is your dish? If it's a small one (1.2 meter or less), then you can put a rotor on it. These rotors can be controlled automatically by most newer receivers (look for a feature called DiSEqC) so that when you select a channel, it positions the dish to point to the correct satellite. Don't have any experience with the rotors in Thailand, but they're quite popular in the West. Failing the use of a rotor, you could install a second dish point it at a different satellite, and use a DiSEqC switch which allows the receiver to automatically select the correct dish for each channel. Don't know the cost of a second dish, but we just had a complete system installed (receiver, dish, cable and labor) for 2,500 baht - so it can't be very expensive.

[joncl]

I am living in a house and my roomate has the dynasat dish and the box in the photo but all we get is like Chinese and Indian channels. He is Thai and seems to think this is all we can get as that is what the service person who sold this cr*p to him told him.

I posted a long time ago in the tech forum too but I still dont get it.

Is there someone who can tell me where to go to get some English language channels? Or even how to pay for them legally?

Thanks.

There is no local cable where I live and I refuse to be robbed by UBC

This set top box is normally set up on the satellite called NSS6 not Thaicom 2/5, which is on the high band or Ku band. There are now 24 Thai satellite networks across 5 different satellites feeding content to Thailand (not including truevisions) and some like truevisions also have english programming like fox crime, australia network, movies etc...