I haven't been on that 117.0°W in ages. Can anyone list an active transponder for the FTA channels so I can use it to align my dish?Actually a lot of it is up there in FTA still.They havent encoded everything yet. Looks like a work in progress.
What is Orby TV?????
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I see a lot of junk channels thrown in to boost the count and the fact that none of the Hallmark channels are included makes it a non-starter. With the exception of 1 or 2 channels I can take or leave, I get the same thing in Flex-Pack, including Showtime, for a total of $59 all in. I'm not seeing an upside to it.
I looked at those channels. they are nagra encrypted and not FTA.. try 11940 30000V and 12060 30000V or 11980 30000V. Hope that helps. One more thing they are HVEC encoded
A number of the channels were FTA a week or two ago as people contacted me about it. They also let me know they were just adding EPG data at the time.
I did not see it myself though.
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I hate i missed it.. Just found out they were up there today. I would have liked to see how the picture quality is on those channels.
I did a blind scan about two hours ago and got about 160 encrypted channels and a grand total of TWO FTA channels...Tigo Promo channel and channel 4.
Orby's transponders are 11940 and 11980; 12060 is a Tigo TV transponder. All of Orby's channels were encrypted when I looked on Saturday, January 19th. Attached is a .zip file containing two .htm files exported from TSReader tuned to the two Orby transponders. I see some channels have around 2-4 Mbps H.265 video and others are more like 0.5-0.9 Mbps. Are the higher bitrate channels the ones in HD?
I'd be curious to know how that compares to the bitrates on Dish and Direct; does anybody know?
Piss-poor, that's what those rates are. Dish's are like 12Mbps if I remember right. Anything less than 3Mbps, can't be real HD, unless HEVC compresses that much, doubtful, but I'm not sure.
What an odd bunch... for years, crying about why no one offers a skinny package or popular channels on satellite. Now a service is offering an alternative subscription package at a reasonable price. It has to start somewhere. Agreed, it isn't the perfect package of channels or PQ for each one of us; but damn, it is another satellite delivery option outside of Dish, Direct, cable or streaming.
Kudos to someone with the "tener cajones" to negotiate & implement a contract and be able to actually offer a package of popular channels that people actually have heard of and want to watch. On top of that, they hammered out a distribution deal with Best Buy to carry stock nationwide and contracted a major nationwide installation group. Guys, this is a major play! I am impressed!
I believe that a market exists for this package and it probably isn't the satellite and techno geeks who demand more than any service ever provides. Not everyone demands 12Mbps or even 2-4Mbps HD. Have you every been in an average customer's home and marveled at their subpar TV experience or the tiny screens that millennials watch hours and hours of crappy quality streams? LOL!!! Yes, a nonUHD world exists somewhere outside of this forum....
Before writing OrbyTV off during the first day of discussion on SatelliteGuys, shouldn't we see if they have what it takes to excel or if they misread the market and fail? I know... wishful thinking on my part!
Kudos to someone with the "tener cajones" to negotiate & implement a contract and be able to actually offer a package of popular channels that people actually have heard of and want to watch. On top of that, they hammered out a distribution deal with Best Buy to carry stock nationwide and contracted a major nationwide installation group. Guys, this is a major play! I am impressed!
I believe that a market exists for this package and it probably isn't the satellite and techno geeks who demand more than any service ever provides. Not everyone demands 12Mbps or even 2-4Mbps HD. Have you every been in an average customer's home and marveled at their subpar TV experience or the tiny screens that millennials watch hours and hours of crappy quality streams? LOL!!! Yes, a nonUHD world exists somewhere outside of this forum....
Before writing OrbyTV off during the first day of discussion on SatelliteGuys, shouldn't we see if they have what it takes to excel or if they misread the market and fail? I know... wishful thinking on my part!
I agree, perhaps tomorrow were having a heavy down pour, you can measure a drop in signal
sure if your dish is to small it's getting close to other birds and a small dish will see the signal from the other bird, the beam is too wide a bigger dish can create a narrow look at the beam
If anyone calls them, make sure to let them know you saw them on SatelliteGuys.
I did call, they have no clue what to say to people I ask what are you paying installers since I'm retired but know some that may do it, she acted like what hu they have a huge growing problem
Call them up, and ask if they let you install it yourself I asked that question, and the girl just said can I have your phone number so what does that mean? No one called me back yetWhat an odd bunch... for years, crying about why no one offers a skinny package or popular channels on satellite. Now a service is offering an alternative subscription package at a reasonable price. It has to start somewhere. Agreed, it isn't the perfect package of channels or PQ for each one of us; but damn, it is another satellite delivery option outside of Dish, Direct, cable or streaming.
Kudos to someone with the "tener cajones" to negotiate & implement a contract and be able to actually offer a package of popular channels that people actually have heard of and want to watch. On top of that, they hammered out a distribution deal with Best Buy to carry stock nationwide and contracted a major nationwide installation group. Guys, this is a major play! I am impressed!
I believe that a market exists for this package and it probably isn't the satellite and techno geeks who demand more than any service ever provides. Not everyone demands 12Mbps or even 2-4Mbps HD. Have you every been in an average customer's home and marveled at their subpar TV experience or the tiny screens that millennials watch hours and hours of crappy quality streams? LOL!!! Yes, a nonUHD world exists somewhere outside of this forum....
Before writing OrbyTV off during the first day of discussion on SatelliteGuys, shouldn't we see if they have what it takes to excel or if they misread the market and fail? I know... wishful thinking on my part!
I am surprised and very pleased to learn about a new DBS provider. With DirecTV phasing from satellite to streaming and Dish Network losing HBO, it's great to have a new alternative. I wish Orby nothing but success!
Back several posts Brian (Titanium) mentioned that he self-installed and just had to provide information for them to activate it:
Actually, the service automatically activated online after entering my name, address, SIM # and a credit card on the website. I only called OrbyTV after the receiver activated to see if they would ship the duplexer and a terrestrial antenna.
The support rep asked for the signal strength and signal quality readings. I assume that this information is part of the install documentation normally submitted by an installer. They didn't ask any questions about the install. Thanked me for subscribing and to call them if I had any questions or problems.
