Pro sattellite recivers for cinemas

Big names in head-end equipment are:
Cisco (Scientific Atlanta)
Ericsson (Tandberg TV)
Harmonic (Divicom, Scopus)
Motorola (GI)
Thomson Grassvalley

There are many small players popping up, but these have been around since they formed Digital Distribution/Broadcast in the late eighties, early nineties. Unfortunately professional IRDs tend to offers less features in the storage and networking areas, distribution to remote (play-out) servers generally is done as datadistribution, using receivers/servers not well suited to live video reception.

Why not email Mark Schubin directly, for tips on receivers. He deliberately uses regular interlaced DVB broadcast links in his MET distribution to be able to work with regular broadcast equipment. Most of the Scandinavian community houses that show the opera's in Sweden are not even using real theaters and real digital cinema projectors, and they all work with non professional, or even commercial grade receivers (there was a story on the project in Sirius latest, and probably last, as it was just integrated into SES Astra, printed newsletter). In Canada Bell ExpressVue also supplies consumer grade receivers.

My tip would be to split the signal and use two boxes, one to record, one for the live show to the projector. That way you don't overload the box, as you write that's when the box gets hiccups. Write it off at 100 euro's per month and you have written it off by the time you have found your prefered professional receiver.

Are you going to attend IBC? If you do, you may want to look into something like this. Unfortunately DVB-S2 is limited to QPSK, so that might be an issue, as most HD feeds are using 8PSK. http://www.dveo.com/broadcast-system...ime-Delay.html

I was going to recommend a similar thing. I was basically going to suggest having two boxes into a video switcher so you could easily switch to a redundant box should the main one fail or glitch up. You should be able to do this by just having two into two inputs on the DVDO so you have a backup.

I'm not certain whether using one to "record" and one just to watch would necessarily matter unless you got a box which specifically *not* a DVR. Because AFAIK most DVRs are basically recording what you're watching anyway to allow you to pause and do instant replay and the like. It is worth exploring, however, but just a thought to consider that if you have a DVR, just not recording the program doesn't necessarily mean it's not recording on its own anyway temporarily...

Googled the modelnumber, seems it is PVR Ready, with a SATA connector instead of a build in HDD. Not uncommon in retail DVB-S/S2 receivers.