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Originally Posted by reho33
Yes Bill, thanks. I read about that. PBS is going to DVB and dropping DC2 as a transmission format. Wonder if other organizations will follow suit? No I am not going to sub to DC2 programming, just wanted the receiver to get FTA DC2 channels. |
If you're not subscibing then I think I'd go for one of the commercial receivers. Only problem with the 4200 is that it only can hold one VCT at a time. Like right now, all the national PBS channels on AMC3 are on one VCT, but if I want to tune in say GPTV, even though it's on the same satellite, I have to go through the 50 some steps I listed on my web page to tune the new VCT. Same thing for other VCTs. So it can take a bit of time to switch from one channel to another. Some VCTs have hundreds of channels, others just one or two. With some of the newer commercial units, I think it will hold more than one VCT, however I think you need to know the VCT NUMBER, whereas the 4200 automatically goes to the one you tuned since it only holds one. Another issue is that more and more channels are going to the combo mode that the 4200 doesn't do. I'm not sure what receivers do that.