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With the popularity of Free TV programming comes your best source for the latest information on Free To Air Satellite Dish Receivers. Learn more about the Dreambox 500-S FTA receiver and gain valuable insight as to which reciever is best for you. Enjoy hundreds of hours of hassle free digital satellite dish entertainment in your own home.
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The Dreambox 500-S FTA Receiver
The new Dreambox 500-s receiver is a product that bring something new to the market and forces all other manufacturers to keep up with product enhancements. The latest Dreambox digital satellite dish receiver has some of the newest and most amazing features and is a huge improvement over prior versions and models. Powered by an open source Linux platform, with up to date firmware you have the ability to recieve wide open satellite dish proamming.
The Dreambox 500-S comes equipped with an overabundant 32MB of internal RAM which makes it one of the most powerful and upgradeable receivers on the market today. Coupled with and interactive installation CD-ROM this receiver makes it easy to get all the newest software, patches, utilities, instructions and how to guides.
With its full on screen programming guide (EPG), this has to be one of the nicer units we've seen to maintain and setup. The user friendly interface makes tweaking and minor adjustments a snap and will even put a smile on the face of the most seasoned FTA pro. Some of the more impressive features of this unit include a 250 MHz PowerPC Processor (350 Mips), 1 x Smartcard-Reader, MPEG2 Hardware decoding, Common available NIMs (DVB-S, DVB-C, DVB-T), V.24/RS232 Interface, 10/100Mbit compatible Ethernet Interface,
2 LED status, unlimited channel lists for TV/Radio, channel-change time < 1 second, full automatic service scan, supports directly bouquet-lists, supports EPG (electronic program guide), supports own videotext, multiple LNB-Switching control (DiSEqC), fully adaptable OSD in many languages and skin-support, S/PDIF Interface for digital bit stream out (AC-3) and a 1 x Scart-interface.After checking out this new reciever it is apparent that market appeal for this receiver is vast as its professional features and easy to use setup will appeal to the novice FTA user as well as the seasoned veteren.
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HoustonPBS 8.1 Letterbox sometimes/sometimes notAnyone have any contacts at KUHT in Houston? On the OTA HD channel (not one of the SD subchannels) they seem to broadcast some programs in 16:9 and some letterbox 4:3 (basically pillarbox + letterbox). Not really a problem because my 622 can zoom it, but it makes me wonder why? Laziness? |