Satellite or cable in a car?
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Topic: Satellite or cable in a car?
Posted By: bigmikeww
Subject: Satellite or cable in a car?
Date Posted: March 11, 2003 at 3:14 PM
is this a possibility?
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Posted By: auex
Date Posted: March 12, 2003 at 4:58 PM
On a car, probably not, but on a suv sure. Accele has a bubble that goes on top of the vehicle and can supply a signal for sattelite. It is basically a sattelite dish that spins quicly and picks up the signal that way.
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Posted By: IronCy
Date Posted: March 12, 2003 at 9:17 PM
just wait, at CES this year, direct tv and sirius annouced a partnership that will provide everyone the opportunity to have direct tv as well as satelite radio in their vehicles. Supposed to be avail by xmas 03. -cy
Posted By: turbotalon1
Date Posted: March 28, 2003 at 2:02 PM
sirius keeps bragging about it,but an xm rep told me the fcc won't let it happen
Posted By: philaf
Date Posted: May 06, 2003 at 12:55 AM
don't know about direct tv, but they do claim some streaming video capabilities.... just don't know what they're supposedly going to provide. and as far as xm reps... don't get me started, every one i've ever talked to has spouted a load of garbage. half of their reps are retired used car salesmen that will say anything to make their company sound better.. "sure, we're putting up a new sat by <insert random date here>, and our service will be even better"..
Posted By: Powerslave0
Date Posted: May 07, 2003 at 1:31 PM
DISH NETWORK/DirecTV Satellite you mean? Not while moving, not in ANY vehicle that is moving really, but you can mount a dish anywhere, or even tri-pod it when you stop. IF you have a receiver at home, you can take it with you and hook it up to any same DISH system and get your channels. Dish Network additional Receivers are 4.99 each, just get one and activated while on YOUR home system, then take it with you.
CABLE, never, not while moving, but possibly while parked close to someone who already has it in their house. . . Then again, that's still "Theft Of Services."
Siruis, like mentioned, is supposed to get Video streams sometime in the future. I heard a commercial on my Sirius radio about it.
Also, XM and SERIUS are not just Satellite based, there are terrestrial repeaters, because there are only four Satellits for Sirius.
Posted By: TeleGod
Date Posted: May 18, 2003 at 6:53 PM
You guys are NOT up-to-date...here is the good stuff !! https://www.kvh.com/tracvision/A5/index.asp
Posted By: Discman
Date Posted: May 25, 2003 at 8:41 PM
https://www.kvh.com/tracvision/A5/index.asp
I am about to get certified for selling and installing this product.
MSRP is around $2995 for the hardware plus installation and aprox $5 added to your sat dish bill.
yes, I wrote $2995
Posted By: 1999Expy
Date Posted: June 01, 2003 at 7:22 AM
Could you watch different channel on all Monitors? How do you change the channel? What about audio? How would you hear a certain monitor and not the other? Is there some sort of audio splitter or separate headphone setups for each monitor? "$5.00 added to your Sat dish bill" What service does this system employ? DTV? DishNetwork?Echostar? Do you need a receiver like you do at home? Do you need an access card like you do at home? These are just a few questions I have?
Posted By: Powerslave0
Date Posted: June 03, 2003 at 8:37 AM
Out of date with technology? The person specifically asked for SATELLITE or CABLE for his car, most of us just replied with "Not with CONVENTIONAL" product. I also mentioned the Siruis video streams. I doubted the person wanted to hear that you can, but us has a three THOUSAND dollar price tag!
What you are taking about, that trac-vision?; Is WAY to expensive for what you get, and there is a LOT of things that effect reception. In the winter and fall, you'll get NICE repception just about anywhere. Once spring comes, and the trees begin growing in, you loose up to 25% of your reception area, and dont tell me "No you don't" because you SURE do.
PLUS, they still will not not work in tunnels, or under bridges (Duh). They can work when you go through an underpass, if they use a 3-4 second buffering scheme.
IT is a nice product, in its infancy stage.
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