Saletlie Direct

[Stumbo]

This is an advertiser on TV so appreciate can get beaten, whipped, gang buggerred and banned if even suggest they are not the best thing ever by the local SS.

This is a link: Satellite Direct

However does anyone know if this does work, I would have thought the internet connection speeds too slow, seems too good to be true. Perhaps be vague and obtuse in replies. If this gets closed then i guess we know the answer.

[Maizefarmer]

Stumbo

I don;t know what you know about electronics/sat comm's ect ect ..... and I don't know what your living arrangements are regards avaliable space, but the best way to monitor sat news channels is to put together a TVRO setup. Check out "TVRO" on google it's a small but growing hobby in Europe in the USA ..... it's also a very interesting hobby subject if you are so inclined(?). I enjoy it very much .... especially listening to INMARSAT telephone calls!!!! (naughty!).

I have a 2 TVRO dishes at home - a 3.2m diameter dish and a 4.1m diameter dish - with changable LNA's and LNB's for coverage of the different bands (e.g. C, Ka, Ku ect ect ....). This gives me several hundred digital and analouge channels - alot of this is raw news feed and live on the spot reporting- the stuff that reporters film in the field and send back to studio's in the USA and Europe for editing..... so I see alot of stuff that subscribers don't see.

I'll take a complex subject and try and squeeze it into a couple of paragraphs - enough info for you to go away and do some research if you wish: To get/view sat news onto a computer or a TV set, you need over and above the parabolic dish and LNA's/LNB's a desktop box that can be user tuned to diffrent frequencies (i.e. is not tied into just one or other of the subcriber offerings), or even better, a profesional PCI card from designed for the job - that can handle 3 things: rf recption, rf demodulation and transport stream decoding. It works like this:

1) Receive the radio frequency signal: which is what the microwave dish does - the LNA/LNB used with the dish will step the signal frequency down to something that is usulay between 750/900Mhz - 2150Mhz - and sned it along the coax cable to your computer.

2) The card in your computer will demodulate the radio signal i.e. it will recognise the how the radio signal has been modulated (QAM, QPSK and COFDM are common modulatuon techniques - but there are many more types)

3) Then the transport stream has to be decoded i.e. because TV signals contain so much information and data and satelittes can only handle a certain amount, TV signals get compressed for transmission - you've heard of MPEG I'm sure - another common compression technique used nowadays is H.264.

Those are the 3 things your PCI card needs to be able to do ........... now, so long as the signal has not been cyphered (i.e. encrpyted - and 99% of raw digital and analoge news feeds are not encrypted, and about 50% of the edited news channnels are encrypted) you'll be able to watch whatever you want whenever you want......

I can watch BBC Wolrd Service, a lot of Fox stuff, CNBC, ABC, CNN and tons of other European sat channels - just have to know where in the sky the satellite is (and all that info is on the web nowadays), and a few other technical details - but if you do a google search using the abbreviation "TVRO" followed with different words like "satellite", then another search replaing it with "dish", another using "TVRO" with "frequencies", another with "equipment" ... and after a few hours you'll have collated quite a bit of info to work out exactly what you need hardware and software wise to be able to cover satellite news viewing.

The bigger your dish the better and the more you will be able to receive - with my 4 meter dish i can receive some sat channels in Thailand that broadcast only to Europe - and can on occassion watch sat broadcasting that beamed for the South African and Austarlian markets only! I know an ex-pat in Chang Rai who has a 7.2m dish - and the stuff he can watch is really quite amazing!

For suitable PCI types cards check out Advanced Digital Inc and dveo.com ... and there are a few more who make PCI cards for the rf reception and demod and decode of sat TV transport streams.

Have fun ...........

[ballache]

type 'satellite direct scam' into google and you will have your answer, it appears to be a scam