what’s going on with coolsat

The rumor cloud is roughly this:

Coolsat had a manufacturer that it used to make the 4k, 5k, and 6k machines.  coolsat’s management and the manufacturer’s management had differences of opinion, and coolsat went somewhere else to produce later models.  6100 7000 8000 and 8100 and so on were manufactured by someone else.

Apparently there was a small rebellion of coders after the switch to the new machines.  the coders went to work on other fta manufacturers’ machines, including one or two of the very best norw coders.  Of course, the receivers are sufficiently different that the same files will not work on both sets of machines (coolsat new and coolsat old).  This argument says that a part of the reason for slow support is coolsat’s business divorce from its manufacturer, and the rebellion of its staff.

possibly also, coolsat is very concerned about clones of their early machines, and is deliberately holding back its new files in order to spite the clones (and the old non-clones); trying to force customers to upgrade.

it is possible that the iks revolution will still benefit the early coolsat owners–so keep your eyes peeled for a dongle that will work with them.  really, even a third-party could produce such a dongle (without knowledge of the internal workings and bios of the early cs machines) if he had some electrical engineering, website, and coding knowledge.  iks dongles already exist for the more recent cs machines.

new iks machines (like industry leader nfusion nova) are in the works from cw and viewsat for very near future release (hopefully).  watch for more HD receivers and more IKS receivers, hopefully they’ll come down in price and hopefully the companies will really fill out the capabilities of these FTA machines!