Mom's Christmas gift

[truckracer]

Amazingly my Mom is getting into the world of FTA. Right now she has my 7.5' mesh sami C/Ku dish with a venture 36" arm, Fortec Ultra FTA receiver, V-box 4, 4DTV dsr-905. She has a W5 Sub on the 4DTV.

Her locals come from an Over the air antenna w/ samsung OTA HD receiver connected to her HD tv. Her HDTV does not have a digital tuner internally.

I ordered her a Pansat 9200HD and the pansat s2 kit. The pansat 9200 can take the place of her Over the air receiver and fortec ultra. Plus when I scan in new channels with my pansat, I can easily update her channel list with the USB jump drive.

I think she will like it.

I found a vendor who is a legit person (I don't think they sell hackware) where they are selling the 9200 HD receivers for 300.00.
I got the S2 pansat kit from Rick's website.

Overall I feel like I got a pretty good deal and I am excited about getting it setup for her. She will have to re learn the menu's since they are different from her Fortec.

 

[Mr Tony]

actually the Pansat is like the Fortec Ultra so it should be a quick learn

 

[truckracer]

Hey Ice, Hope you had a happy turkey day, The Fortec remote control works great with a pansat 9200 HD.

 

[Cadsulfide]

Truckracer;

Cool beans!
I see that her service comes with 24/7 tech support. You're a good son!

 

[truckracer]

You know as time goes on I have noticed she needs me less and less. She is over 60 years old so she certainly cannot lift and tug on a big dish but she is starting to really find her way around the menus and the v-box.

She is getting the hang of blind scanning too. She can't quite remember where all the channels are located (which satellites) but I made here some index cards that are just hand written. Of course the V-box moves automatically when she flips channels.

Her system works really well.
I think she will like the pansat 9200 better since it will really clean up her entertainment center. The pansat will delete her over the air tuner box ( I need it actually) and one less remote control to fumble with.