PowerVu receivers

[HawaiiFOX]

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?

 

[HawaiiFOX]

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?

 

[Mr Tony]

broke posts off to a new thread...much easier than drudging up an ancient thread

 

[Mr Tony]

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?

The D9222 does MPEG 1.5 only which is pretty rare now

 

[KE4EST]

I didn't know there was any 1.5 around any more.

 

[Mr Tony]

not in North America

Maybe other parts of the world

 

[Mr Tony]

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?

nothing in the manual section and google shows its used in like Zimbabwe or something

 

[HawaiiFOX]

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 MPEG-1.5 and PowerVu. But as far as I know they did not use DVB-S but something else. What standard could it have been?

 

[pro96]

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.

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It looks like one of the professional Scientific Atlanta receivers, but with a slightly different front.

The Orbit package used to broadcast in MPEG-1.5 and PowerVu. But as far as I know they did not use DVB-S but something else. What standard could it have been?

Analog as most of the 90s birds were.

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk

 

[HawaiiFOX]

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?

 

[SatPhreak]

Scientific Atlanta used analog on some of their channels.

 

[HawaiiFOX]

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.

 

[HawaiiFOX]

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 it.

Or are there still any signals the D9222 is good for?

I'm sill wondering for which standard the D9222 was made for if not DVB-S.