On 08/06/2010 10:52 PM, Gordon wrote:
"Gary wrote in
:

Hi, i have a 2.4 metre solid dish here and was going to use it for
TVRO but havn't got round to it as the majority of it is foreign with
subtitles and that doesn't impress me all that much.

Much of it is also available as streaming internet video.
Free video players are widely available. So, why invest
in the TVRO equiptment.

I like the Wi-Fi DX idea for the dish.

I had a 10 foot horizon to horizon Zenith dish and not only did I catch
news anchors picking their noses but got a lot of shows a week before
they were on regular TV. That was 1990 time frame, so much must have
changed by now. I did pick up purely digital signals which were
detectable as byte length dots and dashes (1's and 0's) but never
recorded one. I have to wonder what those were. Now, in 2010 it may be a
bit of an antique but I will bet there is still some interesting stuff
going around.