[mythtvnz] The Number of Sat Channels Available in New Zealand

[Craig Whitmore]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Noel & Di" <noel@igrin.co.nz>
To: <mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] The Number of Sat Channels Available in New Zealand


> About 42 channels FTA at the moment. you'll need either a rotator, or 
> multiple LNBs connected with a diseq switch. Rotator works out cheaper in 
> the long run as it uses a single dish and LNB, but channel surfing between 
> sats is slow as the rotator takes time to move.  The diseq switch gives 
> faster inter-sat channel switching, but you need to use an LNB for each 
> sat you want to view. (I had three 76 cm dishes, two of which had 2 LNbs 
> on them for  my sat receiver.  Since then I've gone to MythTV & run a 
> single 76cm dish on a rotator vith a Skystar2 card. I do the odd 
> blind-scan using a MaxPlus receiver & plug the "unlisted" feeds into myth 
> for things like sports events.  See

So this is what would be needed: 
http://www.freeviewshop.co.nz/90cm-toroidal-multifocus-satellite-dish-p-333.html 
+7 LNB's + about $500 + Cabling.. + what?
and feed them all into 
http://www.freeviewshop.co.nz/8-way-satellite-diseqc-switch-pro-series-p-356.html 
and swap over via  DiSEqC from the card? But my card only supports V1 and 
the switcher needs higher (the Skystar2 card voes higher than 1?

or I can use a rotor like you? . I presume a rotor is something which moves 
the Dish around? 
http://www.freeviewshop.co.nz/moteck-sg2100-dish-mover-p-32.html

How does mythtv know how to move the dish to the correct place etc?

Yes lots of questions.. Maybe you have a list of bits needed to see 50+ 
channels and how they all hook up and places I can get all the stuff. And if 
you want to watch the encrypted stuff with Cams what would be needed.

Thanks