FTA Reliability? Which ones?

[canuck44]

Originally Posted by tuyo

If money is not an issue I would say get the original Charlie receiver and subscription. LOL

Where is the fun in that?


i have not seen very much info about the nfusion, i don't even see any files for them here in the forums.

[tuyo]

I have also wondered about this nfusion. I have seen similar remarks made elsewhere, but I have not been able to find much information about these units. Where is the home site?

[canuckfan]

Originally Posted by tuyo

I have also wondered about this nfusion. I have seen similar remarks made elsewhere, but I have not been able to find much information about these units. Where is the home site?

xxxxxxxx is the site where all the files are first released but you can find info on nfusion right here at rookie under other stb's discussion and the files are there too

[Fonger]

the more people testing it and more it becomes popular, they'll get their own forum.

[MRGOOD34]

ihave apeasat2700a it work great forme

[clownkiller69u2]

Neusat all the way... works good and great support ! @ a fair price .. love the USB for updates !! nice 9 day EPG just all around GREAT !

[warged]

I bought a ViewSat and what a great choice. My neighbors bought a CoolSat 5000 and sorry to say 151 to 152 lasted only hours, their coders do not have what ViewSat has.

[tuyo]

Originally Posted by warged

I bought a ViewSat and what a great choice. My neighbors bought a CoolSat 5000 and sorry to say 151 to 152 lasted only hours, their coders do not have what ViewSat has.

Do you remember how long you had to wait for the Viewsat files when the new keyset was introduced? That same day other reciever Bins were already being posted.

[tuyo]

Originally Posted by tuyo

Do you remember how long you had to wait for the Viewsat files when the new keyset was introduced? That same day other reciever Bins were already being posted.

One more thing, that day the Sonicview files were released before the Viewsat receivers. Don't get me wrong, I do have a PVR-7000 and I am a great fan of the Ultra that I had before, I also have a Pro. But the PVR-7000 still has issues and the so does the Pro. At this moment the Conaxsat Trio is my winner.

[stressreleaseme]

Originally Posted by falcon

There's always lots of talk on in the threads and even polls about which receiver is better.

Most of us vote and comment passionately on the receiver dear to our hearts because we're staring at that model sitting somewhere near the TV.

But while there are inherent physical and software differences between various receivers, most of us don't look at the whole picture, and the last few days demonstrate it.

While we can argue about the power and merits of Pansats vs. Coolsats vs. Viewsats, I think you can all agree that each of these brands has some powerful receivers, good programming, fast switching, EPG, etc. In other words, some decent programming coupled with good speed hardware.

Based on the last few days, perhaps some older and slower receivers won't make it. Whether due to not enough computing power or simply, support will be dropped for them in favor of inticing the hordes to upgrade and buy the latest and greatest coupled to various excuses why the old simply won't work.

Having blabbered on about this, consider that while Pansat's Blacklist, Viewsat's Mr. Viewsat and Coolsat's "programming team" are singly depended on when it comes to programming your proprietary boxes. That means if Blacklist gets run over by a truck or Mr. Viewsat gets fed up and leaves, THERE WILL BE NO NEW CODE OR SUPPORT for a while, if at all.

There's talk the Blacklist is on Vacation until the 9th, etc. Tell you what... If I was Pansat, I'd send him a 1st class ticket home and a 1-week all expense paid trip at some other time. So, the reason things aren't out quickly is not because of anything except that this is a hard fix and there are problems/issues with some receivers as well.

Consider: If you bought an apartment building with 1000 units. Would you rent it to a single tenant and depend on him to pay his monthly 1.5million in lease payments? You would? Then you would have to Enron, right? And you'd be bankrupt right about now.

I think you heard that putting all your eggs in one basket is always a bad idea. Instead of 1 tenant, why not have 1,000. If any leave, so what? There's a lot more. That's like 1 coder responsible for all the code vs. many all over the world.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, we're all playing with fire when it comes to standard FTA units.

I predict the following models will die like the Blackbird has in the past;

• Pantec
• Pansat all models up to 2500
• Fortecs as we know them
• any older receivers more than a year old
• any new receiver without good coders or coders who try to steal other's work by trying to decompile their work, and I wouldn't be too surprised to see some new big names fall, for lack of support (there's talk that even big names are trying to steal the code from Viewsat's fix)

I hope I'm wrong and the older boxes will take updates and fixes. Give them time. But even if these come back, they will be the first to die next time something like this happens.

What will have the best chance at long term survival?

• Dreambox (Linux computer based) and similar boxes (Relook, Triple-Dragon, etc.)

Simply because of their built-in power which is greater than anything else out there and the support and codes for it all over the world.

My main caution to all members here is this.

If you're going out there to buy a receiver, ANY receiver, do NOT buy a model which does not have a fix yet. Enough said!

For the latest FTA STATUS, click on this link...
http://www.dssrookie.com/forums/b-fo...ort-77311.html

Just my 2

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