Interesting to know that there are still some D9222s around:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SCIENTIFIC-ATLANTA-POWERVU-D9222-2A-Satellite-Reciever-/280890999623
http://stcatharines.kijiji.ca/c-ViewAdLargeImage?AdId=406998520
Quite expensive for a device that you can only put on a shelf and look at...
Yes, but this was B-MAC (using a 9704 or a 9708 for receiving and decoding) but not PowerVu.
Does the D9222 DVB-S? Maybe the D9232 used the same standard as the D9222 did.
It was definitely a digital package (PowerVu and MPEG-1.5), but not DVB-S.
Is it possible that Scientific Atlanta developed its own digital broadcasting standard, like DirecTV did, but switched to DVB-S since it was more common?
I found an old test report of the Scientific Atlanta D9232 from the mid 1990s on video tape. I took some screen grabs where the receiver is shown.
It looks like one of the professional Scientific Atlanta receivers, but with a slightly different front.
The Orbit package used to broadcast in...
Another Scientific Atlanta still missing here is the D9232. It was handed out to subscribers of the Orbit package using MPEG-1.5 and PowerVu.
Does anyone have a datasheet, more information or a manual to this receiver?
Why is the D9222 junk? Does it do MPEG-2 or MPEG-1.5 only? It's interesting, that many D9222s don't have the Scientific Atlanta and the PowerVu label on the front.
What is SA-Phase 1.5v?