review of coolsat 6000

I sold my coolsat this last week–got paid last night.  I am now boxing it up and getting ready to ship it.
I wanted to write a review of it, so here goes.
I love my Coolsat 6000.  The box has more than paid for itself.  It has been the seed in my home of a new [...]

174 is wide open on d!sh–don’t know why there is a 175 (b3v?)

would appreciate someone letting me know. pajamasfta [at] gmail dot com

cs 4-5-6 175 now available

174 was working last night…

calculation process for coolsat upgrade program

I ran the math for the upgrade program to see if it was worth it. Basically, you are better off upgrading by selling your old CS 6000 receiver on ebay and then buying whatever other receiver you want.

new coolsatusa announcement… ** upgrades available immediately **

Coolsatusa updated their website announcement about upgrades to read as follows:

[Notice] Repair Exchange Program for Coolsat 4000,5000,6000 begin 1st of June.

We
are proud to introduce an exchange program for the CoolSat
4000/5000/6000 STB’s. Some parts are not avaliable for the STB to
repair.

Effective
immediately you can trade your STB in for an exchange to a CoolSat 6100
by sending [...]

b3v mpeg2 scheduled for cancellation in 2009 (time limited for captain 8000 machines)

The 9242 is ExpressVu’s latest and most powerful receiver. It is a dual
tuner PVR receiver with HDTV capabilities on output #1 and can record
either 200 hours of standard definition or 30 hours of HDTV. It is
similar to the 9200, but is able to receive mpeg4 (in addition to
mpeg2) signals, which ExpressVu is planning on using [...]

B3v’s Nimiq 4, Nimiq 5 and the Captain 8000

Nimiq 4 is supposed to hold many HD channels–BEV is apparently either rolling out or has rolled out MPEG 4 receivers to its customers and some analysts have speculated that Nimiq 4 will be all MPEG4, although pajamasfta has been unable to confirm this.
Possibly the reason that (MPEG-2 only) Captain 8000’s are so cheap [...]

coolsat 6100 blurb from official website (with usb; iks dongle also available)

USB 2.0 Host Support(MP3 Player & JPEG Viewer)

MPEG-II Digital & Fully DVB Compliant

Blind Scan

Multi-LNB Controlled by DiSEqC Control Version 1.0, 1.2 and USALS

Multi-Satellite Search

On Screen Display with 65535 Color Full Resolution

Favorite Channel Groups

Powerful Channel Control by Favorites, Lock, Skip, Move and Delete

Channel Sorting by Alphabet, Transponder and CAS

Multi-language Supported (OSD & Menu)

Closed Caption Support

Maximum 10,000 [...]

OFFICIAL Coolsat annoucement — upgrade program

The following is an official announcement from the Coolsatusa website (http://coolsatusa.com/)
“[Notice] Repair Exchange Program for Coolsat 4000,5000,6000 begin 1st of June.

We
are proud to introduce an exchange program for the CoolSat
4000/5000/6000 STB’s. Some parts are not avaliable for the STB to
repair.

Effective
immediately you can trade your STB in for an exchange to a CoolSat 6100
by sending [...]

believe it or not!!! NEW FILE

NORW 174 is available for 4k, 5k, 6k…