[mythtv-users] Best Sat receiver for Dish Network

Raphael Pooser rpooser at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 21:49:21 UTC 2006


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/08/2006 04:04 PM, Raphael Pooser wrote:
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>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>>> On 03/07/06 23:41, Brian Wood wrote:
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>>>> I'm only looking for SD.
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>>> Good because that's all you'll get from a satellite system (unless you 
>>> feel running a Windows box to convert 169time's proprietary firewire 
>>> output into MPEG-2 that can be fed to your Myth box is actually acceptable).
>>>       
>> Really, you can't get HD from Dish Network?
>>     
>
> Not into your Myth box.  Proprietary, encrypted signals that require a 
> STB for decoding.  169time mods DirecTV receivers to output HDTV via 
> firewire, but it's in a proprietary format that requires a Windows 
> program to decode.  Only people I've heard of who have made it work with 
> Myth had the STB outputting via firewire to a Windows box which output 
> via firewire to the Myth box.  It's a waste of a perfectly-good computer 
> if you ask me...
>
>   
>> I thought these dish 
>> companies did have some HD channels.  Does that leave the only HD stuff 
>> coming through digital cable and OTA (non satellite, like terrestrial)?
>>     
>
> Yep.  And the digital cable is only what's left unencrypted by your 
> cable provider--and they have been known to change the list of encrypted 
> channels at a whim...  It's likely you'll only get high definition on 
> the same channels you can get for free over the air via cable.  (Many 
> claim that the cable provider must provide those channels unencrypted, 
> but that's only one interpretation of the law that was created before 
> high-definition digital TV standards...)
>
> Mike
>
>
>   
Thanks Mike and Brian for the clarifications.  My, HD is not quite what 
I want it to be yet.  Course I'm not saying anything new here anyway.
Raphael



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