Question about Lyngsat

[FTAJockey]

I have been looking around and thinking about getting into FTA. However, the more I try to learn about what is available, the more I am confused.

I have been directed over to lyngsat by a few people to see what is out there that I might be interested in. I am running into two issues.

First, when at lyngsat, I go to the section that I thought was to show me all the FTA for North America. However, when I browsing the list, I see satellites that are aimed at Japan and other countries. For example, it lists Al Bishahara TV which is on Eurobird and I certainly cannot get a signal from in Florida.

Second, I am seeing channels on multiple satellites that I want to watch. I know that I could get a motorized dish or just multiple dishes, but I have three rooms I would like to watch TV in.

I currently have Directv that I would like to get rid of. On the end of the house at the dish I have four RG-6 cables running to the other end of the house to a 5X9 switch. Where hte switch is located is my central media center where all my RG-6 cables from the rest of the house come into.

So, any info would be appreciated from a confused person.

P.S. - The main channels we watch are the DIY and home type channels and the kids channels for my 2 year old like Sprout.

 

[eurosport]

Check out this page on Lyngsat:North & South America - LyngSat
Also check out The List here on SatGuys:SatelliteGuys.US - TheList ...these should give you a good idea of what you can receive.
I use multiple stationary dishes for Ku band, and 2 motorized BUDs for C band. Others here also have motorized dishes for Ku too.

 

[FTAJockey]

Hey thanks... I just thought that on Lyngsat that by cliking what was free to to US, I would gotten a list that included only those channels available in the US.

I guess I will have to just look at every satellite to see what is there. Also, had looked at TheList before and Sprout was only shown on AMC 11 and encrypted. It is actually available on AMC 18 FTA.

I will also try and do some more reading about the best way to setup multi room and multi satellite.

 

[JosephB]

I'm just getting into FTA myself, but I don't think you will be able to replace DirecTV with FTA. None of the channels you get through a typical subscription package are going to be on FTA. You can get them with a BUD and 4DTV, but that's probably not what you're looking for. Personally, I'm getting into FTA to jump on feeds and such, some people use it to get international channels.

 

[SatPhreak]

When you check lyngsat by country, it is from that country and not necessarily being broadcast to that country. FTA is no replacement for sub channels. There is a lot on FTA but it is spread out over many sats making it hard for multi room veiwing without a lot of fixed dishes (or 1 motorized dish for each receiver) and alot of the channels are not what you would find on sub services.

I like it because in my area there is only 3 OTA channels, so it adds alot more choices for me without a sub.

 

[rv1pop]

I only watch 6 channels that are available on Dish OR DirecTV and to get most of them of them requires the $$$$$ packages. I get 5 of those on 97° FTA. The other I do not get, but might find someday (FoxNews). So to say it will not replace Subscription TV may be overstating. For me, subscription cannot replace FTA. I have not been successful with Lyngsat, but I am not the most computer savvey. So look and enjoy. There are several for little kids that my grandkids liked, one being SOAC - Smile of a Child. They do not mind not getting the other "stuff" .

 

[B.J.]

Hey thanks... I just thought that on Lyngsat that by cliking what was free to to US, I would gotten a list that included only those channels available in the US.

I guess I will have to just look at every satellite to see what is there. Also, had looked at TheList before and Sprout was only shown on AMC 11 and encrypted. It is actually available on AMC 18 FTA.

I will also try and do some more reading about the best way to setup multi room and multi satellite.

In addition to what other people have said, be aware that Lyngsat lists things that require different equipment. Ie the Sprout you mentioned on AMC11 and AMC18 are on C-band, meaning that you'd need a big (8 to 10' dish usually), plus the "free" one on AMC18 is Digicipher, meaning that it can't be received by a "FTA receiver". It would require a DCII receiver, such as a 4DTV, which by itself can't get DVB, which what we commonly refer to as FTA. Plus, even if it is listed as free today, it may not be free tomorrow.

I really get the impression that you are expecting FTA to "replace" DirecTV. In reality in general, the things you see on DirecTV are not available via FTA, and the things available via FTA are not available via DirecTV, DN or cable. They are different things.



Changing the subject partially..... has anyone noticed that Lyngsat has (for my browser at least) taken away the function that computes the IF freq when you put the mouse over the freq??? Not a big deal, but I liked that.

 

[Lak7]

Changing the subject partially..... has anyone noticed that Lyngsat has (for my browser at least) taken away the function that computes the IF freq when you put the mouse over the freq??? Not a big deal, but I liked that.

I noticed that too, just thought it was my Browser.

 

[Mr Tony]

Changing the subject partially..... has anyone noticed that Lyngsat has (for my browser at least) taken away the function that computes the IF freq when you put the mouse over the freq??? Not a big deal, but I liked that.

I know on Firefox it doesn't do it but IE it will show the IF frequency

 

[FTAJockey]

B.J,

Nope, I completely understand that I will not be able to replace my DirecTV as I know there are some things just not anywhere else out there. I was just hoping to keep my little girl happy more than anything else. In fact, it would probably be better if there was LESS to watch. Would allow me to get more done.

I am just finding it hard to put together all those channels I would be interested in. Guess it is time to search each satellite and make a list of what I like on each one and plan from there.

 

[B.J.]

I know on Firefox it doesn't do it but IE it will show the IF frequency

I was afraid of that. That happened once or twice before, and I had to upgrade my browser to get it back. Strange.

What version of IE are you using? I just tried it with IE6, and it didn't work.
I'm using SeaMonkey. I also tried Firefox.

I can't figure out how that's working with any browser. If you do a page source, you can see the dummy calculator there, but where they show the freq, they used to have a mouseover type command, and I don't see that there now. They must have a different page source load depending upon what browser you're using, but I didn't see any code for that. Anyway, not sure how they're doing that, or why.

 

[Mr Tony]

must have been an old version because the version on this new computer doesn't show it either