Newsgroup: it.hobby.satellite-tv.digitale
Titolo: 4DTV

Received my $4dtv on Tuesday, installed in a couple of hours, switched it
on and... BIG DISAPOINTMENT.
The Receiver takes a long time to respond to the Remote command
In comparison with my GI 650I, the video on the Analog and Videocipher
sides looks washed out, looks like some processing was done to make it look
like the Digichiper one(both look bad, a little better than a VHS Tape)
In comparison with my 650i receiver the signal grabbing ability of the 4dtv
is worse.
On some transponders of C1and Galaxy 1, were I get a noise free but not
full
quality signal with my 650i,(signal quality=80) I get a lot of sparklies
with the $dtv.(signal quality=60) Kids want the old receiver because of
better signal on Denver 5
You can program only those satellites preprogrammed with the unit. You
can't
add new satellites by yourself, they have to be programmed by GI.  I have a
Horizon to Horizon mount and can't program the Pan-American, Intelsat and
the Hispasat sats.
Very little Digicipher programming available, only HBO on G1 and TVN on G9,
no court TV, Request, Adam&Eve etc.
Sometimes channel acquisition time takes forever to determine the type of
signal tuned to.
NO Even or Odd channels tuning that extend the life of the polarizer motor
Dish fine tuning cumbersome due to background going blank while moving the
dish.  
Hope GI will fix all this problems soon, if not I'll have a nice looking
boat anchor for sale, In the meantime, back to the 650i.
Eng. Alejandro Luciano
San Juan, Puerto Rico
huc...@prtc.net

05/14/97
Received my $4dtv on Tuesday, installed in a couple of hours, switched it
on and... BIG DISAPOINTMENT.
The Receiver takes a long time to respond to the Remote command
In comparison with my GI 650I, the Analog and Videocipher video
looks washed out, looks like some processing was done to make it look
like the Digichiper.  DigiCipher looks a little better than a VHS
recording(Not like SVHS)
In comparison with my 650i receiver the signal grabbing ability of the 4dtv
is worse.
On some transponders of C1and Galaxy 1, were I get a noise free but not
full
quality signal with my 650i,(signal quality=80) I get a lot of sparklies
with the $4DTV.(signal quality=60) Kids want the old receiver because of
better signal on Denver 5
You can program only those satellites preprogrammed with the unit. You
can't
add new satellites by yourself, they have to be programmed by GI.  I have a
Horizon to Horizon mount and can't program the Pan-American, Intelsat and
the Hispasat sats.
Very little Digicipher programming available, only HBO on G1 and TVN on G9,
no court TV, Request, Adam&Eve etc.
Sometimes channel acquisition time takes forever to determine the type of
signal tuned to.
NO Even or Odd channels tuning to extend the life of the polarizer motor
Dish fine tuning cumbersome due to background going blank while moving the
dish.  
Hope GI will fix all this problems soon, if not I'll have a nice looking
boat anchor for sale, In the meantime, back to the 650i.
Eng. Alejandro Luciano
San Juan, Puerto Rico
huc...@prtc.net
05/15/97
All the TVN DgiCipher channels On G9 were OTC this morning.  VHS Video
quality.
Possible GI download reset some sats to preprogramed skew.  So back to the
installation screen to set the skew.

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