Picture Value

alhamari · #1 (**permalink**) 08-23-2005, 05:28 PM

Those people who have the FTA Dish. Can you please tell me how Clear are the channels? Are they digital or analog channels. Are all the channels clear or there are some impurity?

Darkman · #2 (**permalink**) 08-23-2005, 05:47 PM

Most of them are crisp and clear.. It's satellite Technology after all...
Mpeg-2 on KU band say .. exellent quality picture!

bobkat · #3 (**permalink**) 08-23-2005, 05:59 PM

There is a big difference in picture quality; not so much from channel to channel but from program to program. It all depends on the source quality.

kat

alhamari · #4 (**permalink**) 08-23-2005, 06:03 PM

so that mean are they as clear and shinny as the American channels are? Or dark and bluufee

bobkat · #5 (**permalink**) 08-23-2005, 06:09 PM

bluufee ???

Well, my opinion is they are generally not as clear as American satellite channels. However I have seen some channels that are really excellent.

kat

Darkman · #6 (**permalink**) 08-23-2005, 06:21 PM

Most of them are Clear.. exellent quality..

Some are even better than American ones.. clearer

Better than Cable anyhow

bobkat · #7 (**permalink**) 08-23-2005, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Darkman

Better than Cable anyhow

That's for sure... :mozilla_laughing:

kat

alhamari · #8 (**permalink**) 08-23-2005, 06:34 PM

Can please someone answer my question.
If I have PANSAT 2700A 2700 FTA RECEIVER & 30" KU SATELLITE DISH , can I get any Arabic FTA channesl from T5? (Intelsat Americas 5)

Darkman · #9 (**permalink**) 08-23-2005, 06:44 PM

ya.. Tens of them .. 20 or 30 or something like that anyhow..

Unlike many American channels, most of Arabic ones are FTA .. T5 (AKA IA 5) has more of them than any other N.American satellite

bobkat · #10 (**permalink**) 08-23-2005, 06:45 PM

Yes you can... lots of them. Have a look here ---> http://www.lyngsat.com/ia5.html

Any channel yellow in color with a "F" letter is FTA.

kat

drac2000 · #11 (**permalink**) 08-24-2005, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Darkman

Most of them are Clear.. exellent quality..

Some are even better than American ones.. clearer

Better than Cable anyhow

Most of american channels are in 29 fr/s and a bitrate of 6M to 9M
while in t5, most of them (if not all) are at maximum of 3M.
For sure video quality is better on american channels than the t5 channels. it's all about bandwith, t5 is getting full and cost a lot for carriers to use a bigger bandwith ....

drac

Admin · #12 (**permalink**) 08-24-2005, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by alhamari

Can please someone answer my question.
If I have PANSAT 2700A 2700 FTA RECEIVER & 30" KU SATELLITE DISH , can I get any Arabic FTA channesl from T5? (Intelsat Americas 5)

Yes, of course. Take a look here: http://sadoun.com/Sat/Channels/Arabi...V-Channels.htm