Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 1, 2014 @02:48AM from the old-hobbies-are-best-hobbies dept.

Dishwasha (125561) writes "Just a few days ago I incidentally discovered a little known secret called free-to-air. Amazingly enough even in the depths of Slashdot, there appear to have been no postings or discussions about it. Just like over-the-air programming, there is free programming available via various satellite systems that only requires a one-time cost of getting a dish and receiver. Both Amazon and Ebay appear to have a plethora of hardware out there. I personally settled on the Geosatpro MicroHD system with a 90cm 26lbs light-weight dish (queue lots of comments about my describing 26 lbs as being light-weight) and I should be receiving that in just a few days. I'm curious, who else is using satellite FTA? What are your setups? Has anyone hacked on any of the DVR/PVR devices available? Besides greater access to international programming, what are your channel experiences?"

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cm and lbs? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-04-01 03:10 · Score: 0, Troll

uh.. someone put centimeters and pounds in the same sentence? Author should put either centimeters and kilograms instead.
90 centimeters = 35.4 inches.
queue = to arrange (a number of programs) in a predetermined order for accessing by a computer