GT MEDIA V8 NOVA Digital TV Satellite Receiver DVB-S2 FTA Decoder HD 1080P Built-in WiFi Support CC CAM IP TV YouTube PVR Ready PowerVu Biss Key
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Selected User Reviews For GT MEDIA V8 NOVA Digital TV Satellite Receiver DVB-S2 FTA Decoder HD 1080P Built-in WiFi Support CC CAM IP TV YouTube PVR Ready PowerVu Biss Key
I have owned a number of satellite receivers, but this one is the best. In the period since it was bought, it has been updated four times. These are very good qualities for a company to exhibit. At freesat, they have an active forum. Quite a few questions are answered in this section, especially for people who are new to satellite TV. You will find that both the scart and the RCA connectors are on the nova orange in addition to the hdmi. Quite a good picture comes out of this unit. As far as I am aware, I have no connection with the company.
Today I got my box. I connected it to my pre-college education Currently, dish networks has an antenna in place. Set up the equipment. I found it fairly easy to do. The signal strength is at 63 percent. There is nothing to worry about. What I do not know is which satellite to select so that I can receive N America American broadcasts. Otherwise, everything appears to be okay. I have a wide range of European and foreign channels as soon as I turn the box on. Channels in the United States are not available. There is a possibility that I will need help with All other aspects of the product are fine. It is necessary to manually enter the satellite in order to see channels available in North America or the USA. The Dish Network I use has an EchoStar 119 West satellite. However, after searching a few channels, I found that they all have encryption, and can't be watched with the V8 Nova, which is capable of viewing only Free Satellite TV Stations.
After reading all the reviews on this device and others, many of which were cheaper, I decided to buy it. There were several positive reviews about this device, and I was willing to pay more for a better product. The fact that it has Wireless built in was also an advantage. However, I am overseas with the military and we have AFN so I do not actually require it as a satellite receiver. To use my AFN connection as an MP4 decoder, I'd like to connect to an AFN connection. As far as setup is concerned, it should have been simple. The Exchange offers a unit with PVR capabilities, but I want to use the unit provided by our Exchange. After receiving the item and attempting to read the "manual", I decided to try to understand it better. A lot of the information in the manual is useless. There are no instructions on how to actually operate the menus you must figure out how to perform the actions by extrapolation. I found the remote to be the most frustrating aspect of the entire process. replaced the batteries in the remote with brand new ones. I found it difficult to operate the remote while sitting no further than six feet away, since I had to push it several times to make it do anything, and half of the time I was only able to move left and right, and not even get into half the menus that I wanted to view. As my rental unit is not the one that gave me a choice of satellites, I can scan only 57000000 frequency in QAM64 (That's what was removed from it). Despite my best efforts, I was unsuccessful in setting up the wireless network. Spending your money on this is a waste of your time and If I had a choice, I would give this rating of zero stars.
I could not get the unit to A strong signal with 65% strength has been received, but the picture is below par. I replaced the old satellite position with a new one since I could not retrieve the Satellite position. The junk was highly rated and the price was quite high. It is better to have a cheap one that works well. The program could not be rerun because I tried until it was too long. You should be cautious as a buyer!.
I can get satellite channels for free, but I can't get internet on this device. It does not appear to be compatible with any Internet-based apps. In spite of the fact that I had successful WiFi and Ethernet connections, I could not get any internet entertainment via this device. I am still looking for some type of software update to get internet to function with this device.
electronics, I'm a total fanatic, and I can say that I spent way too much on this item. There was nothing good about this at all, nothing worked as it should, and the instructions were terrible.
This machine works extremely well. It has a simple, elegant menu that is easy to use. It presents an extremely clear picture.
This continues to lock up even after upgrading to the latest firmware. It otherwise works fine.