Whether you are a hobbyist searching for a multitude of free to air transmission such as Fox, FX, NBC, ABC, CBS and many more, or someone looking for ethnic programming to enjoy broadcasts from your homeland such as Arabic, Spanish, Greek, Italian, Thai, Chinese, Polish, Indian, Iranian and more, the Satcruiser is the one receiver you should own. Arabic television channels are available on Telstar T5, Orion 1 and PAS 5. The Satcruiser is practically the only digital receiver available on the market today that can convert PAL to NTSC, and NTSC to PAL and has the processing power to do it. Other receivers available on the market today may claim this capability, but lack the processing power to receive the signal, decompress it and convert it from PAL to the NTSC American standard. With the rising popularity of FTA digital reception, many digital receivers are being marketed throughout the United States and Canada, most of which are still at the infant stage and are experiencing a multitude of both hardware and software problems.
Most digital receivers can get so hot and eventually fail to function.
Their user interface begs for an Engineering degree to operate. The Satcruiser on the otherhand, is considered be the Rolls Royce of digital satellite receivers without the price tag. It has become the golden standard by which other receivers are measured. It has met the toughest U.S. FCC and European EC standards and was approved by both organizations. Its colorful graphical user interface is easy to use and is multi-lingual.