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Originally Posted by Evessal
Heya thanks rainman for your help! You've helped clear a lot of the cobwebs up.
Just had a few more questions though. If FTA dishes are too small for DirecTV/Dish, what about the reverse? Would I be able to receive FTA channels on Directv/Dish dishes?
Also, couldn't I manually move a stationary dish to point at different satellites if I did not want to get a motorized dish?
Thanks again
ehsan
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I think that was a typo. I think Rainman was saying that a
DTV/Disnet dish would be too small for FTA, not that an FTA dish would be too small for DTV/Dishnet. In fact, if you can get by with a single satellite DTV/Dishnet system, a FTA dish is bigger and will outperform a standard DBS dish.
HOWEVER a regular FTA dish has a linear lnbf, and the DBS dishes use a circular lnbf, so you'd have to use a 2nd lnbf to do both. Also, if you need 2 DBS sats, like to get local channels, etc, then the switching gets complicated, and/or you'd have to move the dish to get to other channels. Plus, there are other potential problems with band switching on dishnet. Bottom line is that if you intend to have both FTA and DBS, it's best to have separate systems.
Also, relative to your question #4..... assuming that you are talking about channels that you receive on the FTA system.... I think Rainman's answer refers to the foreign subscribable channels described on the Sadoun site, however 95% of the channels that are encrypted just can't be received whether you want to pay or not, ie you can't subscribe to them. Those few foreign language channels that you CAN subscribe to, you need you get the appropriate receiver (most FTA receivers don't have any capability of subscribing to anything, however some of them have CAM modules to let you subscribe). However most of the FTA signals up there are not "Broadcasts", but rather are private transmissions not intended for the public, and if they are encrypted, then there is no way to receive them. What I'm trying to get across is that just because Lyngsat says that a channel is encrypted doesn't mean that it is possible to subscribe. However there is a lot up there to watch that isn't encrypted, so most people just watch the things that aren't encrypted.
And, yes, you can manually move a fixed FTA dish to aim at any sat, and many people do this.