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HDTV101 · 2012-03-18, 07:38 PM

TVPoolUS DTH service ... can anyone get a signal?

Satellite: SES 1 @ 101W
Transponder: 12020
Polarity: Horizontal
FEC: 2/3
Symbol rate: 30000
Modulation: DVB-S2 / QPSK
Codecs: MPEG4 H.264 video with AAC audio

Their website is still there but you can't click on any of the links... looks like they might have gone under.

cyberham · 2012-03-18, 09:03 PM

No signal here.

Keith Brannen · 2012-03-19, 01:57 AM

They disappeared sometime in January.

HDTV101 · 2012-03-19, 11:31 AM

These guys started up around October 2010... My Wife is Thai so it was of an interest to us. There is currently 6 free Thai channels on 97*W that my wife enjoys. After the free preview that TVpool ran for several months of their 101*W satellite service, and even if they had 40 channels... my wife was only interested in the 6 channels we could get from free from 97*W. TV pool had these channels too but you needed to buy their satellite receiver for $150 and pay another $150 per year subscription fee.

To me it sounds like the people behind TVpool had very bad foresight and bad planning, like when they scrambled their signal and became a pay model, they should have left one channel open that could have been used to advise everyone that they have now scrambled their service, and you need to buy their box and pay for the service now... they didn't even do this! They just went into scrambled mode and I guess hoped everyone would get the idea and try to locate their website to buy the box.

Now that I see that they are gone... I'm not surprise......

cyberham · 2012-03-19, 11:44 AM

Interesting feedback. I don't know if you are in Canada, but you've hit a pet peeve of mine. My wife's native language too is not English. Since living in Canada, she has always searched for TV from her home country. In most of Canada, her language is not available from Canadian TV. And the CRTC makes it illegal for her to watch her home country programming by catching American satellite pay signals.

So she had to find another way and she has. Get your wife to search all the "youtubes" of the world. My wife has found ample programming in her native language from her home country using streaming video via the Internet. And this source of content is free.

I've been to Thailand several times, as recently as 2009, and it's a great country with an interesting culture and kind people. I'll bet your wife gets homesick sometimes.

HDTV101 · 2012-03-23, 07:47 PM

Here's why TV Pool went off the air...........

http://www.youtube.com/embed/RBPOwqiUc1s

2012-03-18, 07:38 PM	#1
HDTV101 Veteran Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,000	TVPoolUS DTH service still working? TVPoolUS DTH service ... can anyone get a signal? Satellite: SES 1 @ 101W Transponder: 12020 Polarity: Horizontal FEC: 2/3 Symbol rate: 30000 Modulation: DVB-S2 / QPSK Codecs: MPEG4 H.264 video with AAC audio Their website is still there but you can't click on any of the links... looks like they might have gone under.

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2012-03-18, 09:03 PM	#2
cyberham Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 422	No signal here.

2012-03-19, 01:57 AM	#3
Keith Brannen Rookie Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Southwestern Ontario Posts: 18	They disappeared sometime in January.

2012-03-19, 11:31 AM	#4
HDTV101 Veteran Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,000	These guys started up around October 2010... My Wife is Thai so it was of an interest to us. There is currently 6 free Thai channels on 97W that my wife enjoys. After the free preview that TVpool ran for several months of their 101W satellite service, and even if they had 40 channels... my wife was only interested in the 6 channels we could get from free from 97*W. TV pool had these channels too but you needed to buy their satellite receiver for $150 and pay another $150 per year subscription fee. To me it sounds like the people behind TVpool had very bad foresight and bad planning, like when they scrambled their signal and became a pay model, they should have left one channel open that could have been used to advise everyone that they have now scrambled their service, and you need to buy their box and pay for the service now... they didn't even do this! They just went into scrambled mode and I guess hoped everyone would get the idea and try to locate their website to buy the box. Now that I see that they are gone... I'm not surprise......

2012-03-19, 11:44 AM	#5
cyberham Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 422	Interesting feedback. I don't know if you are in Canada, but you've hit a pet peeve of mine. My wife's native language too is not English. Since living in Canada, she has always searched for TV from her home country. In most of Canada, her language is not available from Canadian TV. And the CRTC makes it illegal for her to watch her home country programming by catching American satellite pay signals. So she had to find another way and she has. Get your wife to search all the "youtubes" of the world. My wife has found ample programming in her native language from her home country using streaming video via the Internet. And this source of content is free. I've been to Thailand several times, as recently as 2009, and it's a great country with an interesting culture and kind people. I'll bet your wife gets homesick sometimes.

2012-03-23, 07:47 PM	#6
HDTV101 Veteran Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,000	Here's why TV Pool went off the air........... http://www.youtube.com/embed/RBPOwqiUc1s