user78405 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 7:21 pm
its not recommend for people buying 10 foot dish....
10-foot is the optimal dish size for the home satellite tv enthusiast. It will lock everything.
user78405 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 7:21 pm
2 problems you gonna deal with when spending over $500 with those bad Tek2000 sellers...assurances will it work...
Our sponsors have sold thousands of these antennas and they work. $500 is not a lot of money. Try buying all the gear you need from Directv / Dish Satellite and see how much it will cost you, not to mention the endless subscription fees.
user78405 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 7:21 pm
now days people yards are shrinking in newer homes built than older homes with 20 by 30 feet back yard i have while newer they are shrunk to 10 by 10 or less space..houses are been built closer now and nothing you can do with bigger dish..unless you want put on top your roof that will be noticeable..
The size of the home is irrelevant. All you need is a backyard facing south or south-west with few or no obstructions.
user78405 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 7:21 pm
2nd thing of the problem you will face ...yes...you bought the dish over $750 worth but for how long will it last cband networks ....they might end all feeds by year dec 31 2023...all networks preparing send notices to operators due to expiration of security encryption..meaning they no longer gonna able to transmit anymore when 5g release to the public ..so if anyone spend that money...you gonna regretted with anger that you just bought junk that will be temporary shorter til the deadline and be useless eventually
5G will have zero impact on C-band. It is being rolled out already in many cities. Stop the lies and misinformation about c-band ending in 2023. Everyone in the USA watches C-band, whether they realize it or not. Most are watching compressed 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th generation signals being fed from C-band. Those of us with C-band dishes watch the
1st generation master feeds with zero compression. The
1st generation signals start life as
10 - 30Mbps MPEG4 or H.265 and look stunning. The
2nd generation gets compressed to 3-4 Mbps MPEG2 and is fed to high-end cable subscribers. The
3rd generation gets compressed, downsampled and distorted some more before being sent back up to a ku satellite and back to Earth. This is the
2-3 Mbps MPEG2 or 1-3 Mbps MPEG4 signals fed to Dish/Directv customers (dish appears to be slightly worse than direct based on customer comments). The
4th generation is more compression which gets fed to the iptv services at around
1-2 Mbps. Finally, the
pirate iptv service providers (parasiting off dish/direct) do one final round of additional compression/downsampling/cropping (
5th generation) before sending you that glorious
0.5 - 0.75 Mbps MPEG4 signal.
That's just the way it works folks and quite a few middle-men gouging you for those butchered signals.
C-band is not some independent network of programming that can be shutdown like say a single cable company. C-band is the top of the food chain and the source of
ALL the programming for every cable, satellite, SMATV and IPTV provider in the USA. If you shut C-band down, you effectively shut
EVERYTHING down. Does anyone really think this will happen?
Satellite operators may give up 100 MHz of bandwidth for cash to 5G operators, but that still leaves them with plenty of bandwidth. How many C-band satellites are filled to capacity? None. C-band satellite operators can simply move their programming to the upper part of the bandwidth if the lower part is utilized by 5G. They can also increase the effective bandwidth by 50% or more by converting QPSK and 8PSK signals (currently the norm) to 16APSK. HBO recently did this to one of their transponders on 58W. Originally, the transponder was 8PSK and serving 5-6 HD master feeds. They flipped the switch to 16APSK and added a 4K master feed to the mux just like that. The original 5-6 HD channels are still being streamed at the same rate of 10 Mbps and the the new 4K master feed clocks in at 17 Mbps h.265. Quite the magic trick
and some wild feeds are now routinely fed in 32APSK.
user78405 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 7:21 pm
...so don't get upset for spending that money cause tek2000 don't do refunds
Tek2000 is a reliable vendor. They accept credit card payments and if you are not happy, you can always reverse the payment. They've sold thousands of consumer antennas to home satellite enthusiasts and I'm told they will start selling commercial, heavy-duty antennas (both mesh and solid) for TV stations in the months ahead. Unlike other vendors (e.g. DH satellite), they don't hide their prices and offer the lowest prices around. Outfits such as DH satellite require a bank wire before they ship out anything. So if you drop $5000 with them and don't like the product: too bad - so sad.