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Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
Hello all, I need some suggestions on the best receiver to buy for a newbie. Basically an easy one, also one with good support.
Please help as I want to purchase one tonight. I was looking at a coolsat 6000 or a 6100, but I have read some negative info on coolsat, so can anyone help me out?
Also, looking for a low priced box, just in case i blow it up playing with it.
Thanks in advance!
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
sv360 or anything with iks capabilities(neosat)
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
I'm buying a Sonicview 360 Elite and I have never owned an FTA reciever before. Looks like a great product, and the support seems to be great. One of the sponsers here Satmaniacs has them on sale too this week.
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July 6th, 2008
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
Sorry if I am dumb but I did a search and cannot find what IKS means. Also which box doesn't need updated very often?
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
IKS=Internet Key Sharing, here lately, they have all been in need of updates. The faster ones to release fixes are Sonicview, Captain...
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
take a look at the viewsat ultra or any of there receivers.
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
here is the thing amigo no onen knows whats the best recivert because went the file is black out all the reciverts go douwn so will go with something easy end fast sv4000
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
Top dogs
ViewSat
SonicView,
Captive Works
CNX..
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
Thanks Everyone For Your Help!!!!
Talk to you soon when my box arrives.
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
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Hope to help setting her up. 
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
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so what box did you pick? no matter what you got you will get all the help you will ever need at this site!!!!
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
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Viewsat or Sonicview have some good priced receivers out there and they are both backed up with great support.
For Viewsat take a look at an Ultra and for Sonicview check out the SV360 series and the SV4000 recievers.
and also go here for reciever reviews
What have you decided to buy??
Receiver Reviews - ABA DSS - Free to Air Satellite TV Community
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
Some of you might be upset, but I ended up buying the coolsat 6100. One big thing was the autosetup and the next big thing was the price, I got one really cheap, for my first box I didn't want to spend a ton especially for a hobby experiment. After using for a while I see myself dishing up (haha little joke) more money for a advanced box possibly with a pvr. I do have a question though, is there many channels in HD if I was to get a HD pvr box?
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
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Some of you might be upset, but I ended up buying the coolsat 6100. One big thing was the autosetup and the next big thing was the price, I got one really cheap, for my first box I didn't want to spend a ton especially for a hobby experiment. After using for a while I see myself dishing up (haha little joke) more money for a advanced box possibly with a pvr. I do have a question though, is there many channels in HD if I was to get a HD pvr box?
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As I understand it, there are more HD channels on BEV than DN. What dish are you going to use?
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
Real cheap? Hopefully you purchased from an authorized CS Dealer and not a clone. My understanding is that bin files released for genuine receivers don't necessarily work in clones. |
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
The one they left in my yard.... lol, i had to send back the recievers but they left the dish and lnb etc... intact - btw its dn
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The one they left in my yard.... lol, i had to send back the recievers but they left the dish and lnb etc... intact - btw its dn
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Then you should be golden. But like Charlie said, we hope you didn't get a clone.
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
They have a CS Reseller Logo an address a phone number etc... I called and got a Press 1 for... press 2 for... etc... looked them up on google also, so I think im ok.
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jacobdh[/left];411550]They have a CS Reseller Logo an address a phone number etc... I called and got a Press 1 for... press 2 for... etc... looked them up on google also, so I think im ok .
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Excellent ! 
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Re: Best Receiver for a Newbie Please Help... Buying one tonight.
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Hello all, I need some suggestions on the best receiver to buy for a newbie. Basically an easy one, also one with good support.
Please help as I want to purchase one tonight. I was looking at a coolsat 6000 or a 6100, but I have read some negative info on coolsat, so can anyone help me out?
Also, looking for a low priced box, just in case i blow it up playing with it.
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SV 8000 HD with 9 psk is very nice for HDTV
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