FTA Reliability? Which ones?

[falcon]

Well, for 1 thing you need a tuner. That would mean a card.

They exist! Under the DVB section, those are PCs that act as FTA's with an add-in card.

[dogbitefever]

A good time to get out maybe do some camping or something let the brainy guys do there work turn off the tv listen to some music givem some time its summer enjoy it my 2 cents

[jchev]

very excelient post,i had a feeling that we would have to go to boxes like dream,relook,triple-,ect.but im not going to buy anything yet until it is said for sure that we have to use the linux based boxes. buy the way were do you get support for relook and triple dragon as of right now anyway.i dont see it on rookie and i dont trust any other site but a couple others and they dont have any support for them either.

[theolddog]

I have been running emulation for over 6 years. Just starting to look at the boxes. You have given me a point to start from. Thanks

[teamxbox]

There is only a couple days left for Dreambox deal for 200 ??

[blackbox]

Originally Posted by falcon

So far nothing happened there. Don't forget the slimeballs of the world clone off existing technology give it a cool name (Bumsat, Neusat, Scamsat, what is-this-weeks-flavorsat, etc.) Few survive complicated updates, regardless of how great the hardware specs may seem to be at first.

Sorry for my ignorance but is Neusat just a clone? Of what?

[clue400]

I'm looking for something more durable & reliable.
I have the Armulator in mind.
No more FTA, thanks.

[Sugarol]

.. i haven't started yet. But I will, and for now, I'm collecting as much info I can get as to what is the best receiver for me. I guess if I finally chose one and it worked for a couple of months ... I would be very happy. And if it worked for more than a year ... I will be very happy, same happiness whether couple of months or a year. I just want to have that thing work when I start buying. Hope things will go smooch on mine.

[thrashor]

Ok here is my NOOB question:

I got this awsome computer sitting here, right (duh..) so why can't I use this for the emulation(?) side - or something like that...

Please try to remember that I am a noob (just got this the middle of June 2006 - lol - so I got 2 sweet weeks of tv out of the last bin - lol)

However, the only reason I do have to try and ask something like this - well -
Just as I was getting into computers several years ago now... the person I bought it from was also selling dedicated computer systems (P1 class...) to switch the keys (i think) faster than the it could be hit... thus, ran uninterupted...

so - if these boxes (my Multistar Maximum 2500 - lol) are 2 slow - and it can be hooked up to the computer... then can any amount of computing power sitting here be put to any good use to the cause of FTA?????? Something to may be thing about???
thanks

[gassmann]

A question where does the ariza extreme stand in all this.