Coolsat 5000 Questions PART 2

I dont own VS but i read the Ultra is favorable with alot of testers.

 

I think Pro is their PVR unit if your looking for that.

 

Have you guys heard of Conaxsat? Is it any good?

 

Heard of it - don't know anything about it.

 

Heard it is very inexpensive but easily cloned

 

For the 4,5,6 Coolsat owners

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Got this from another site, kinda explains some things.Here goes


A few things you need know about the coo*lsat receivers: The CS 4000-6000 were designed and built by a company called hihtek. Freetech the US importer, branded these receivers Coo*lsat. But hightec and freetech had a falling out. Thus when the time came for new receivers, free tech went to someone else. The company that makes the Ariza extreme were the ones they went to for the 8000 and 8100. They went to the same company that produces the Captain receivers for the 7000.

The 4,5 and 6000 were made by a Korean company called Jinhightek Corp. If you google them and go to their website and hit english at the top, you'll see them listed. And on their website they are called Coo*lsats. Freetech or their affiliates did have a falling out and CS did go to a different manufacturer.



The CS4000,5000 & 6000 are discontinued and Coo*lsat is no longer having STB's made at that factory. Somewhere near that factory in Korea are the coders writing software for those STB's. I don't know what the relationship is between the old factory and Coo*lsat, but I believe that the availability of this 3rd-party-software will not continue forever.

The new boxes, such as the CS6100,7100, 8100 are made at a different factory, with different components, different engineering, and with a different team of coders. These are current models, from a factory that still is doing business with Coo*lsat, so it is in their best interest to write 3rd-party-software.

The only way it keeps working is for the manufacturers to keep selling STB's.
Hence, new models. And in this case, a new factory.

So when the day comes when the coders aren't being supported for the CS4000,5000, and 6000, the bins will be gone, and that'll be it....unless other coders like jvvh who, are working on modding the 6100 and other CS bins for the 5000 and 6000...chancysand is no t into converting coo*lsat receivers or modding the newer 6100 fixs for the 6000 or older receivers..

The original Norw Group (coo*lsat coders), left about 1 year ago to Captain and Ariza, and left Coo*lsat with no coders, and a new inexperienced Norw Group since then....thats why U have ssen a huge decline in Coo*lsat support...

 

Breck
Why I cannot go to bindepot. the homepage is ok but the rest are not found>>>

 

This was already posted by someone else about 8 pages back or so but thanx!

 

Yes, the Ultra seems to be everyone's favorite but it does lack the ability to record on to an internal hard drive. In other words, it lacks the PVR ability. As breck said, the Pro seems to be the answer to that and I have yet to see anyone review the pro. People tend to like the Coolsat 7100 which is the nonHD version of Coolsats PVR capable receivers. If you want HD, you need the 8100.

Now, I just need to decide what I want to buy. The HD versions are still to expensive and really not needed. The real question is how long the support will be. My coo1sat 5000 has been more than paid for by all the movies and events that i have watched, but I want to make sure whatever I buy has at the least a life expectancy of 2 years.

 

HD will go down especially cs hd since they cannot be modified to accept a 8PSK adapter meaning you can only get HD with BEV

 

Old news - was posted several pages back.

 

It's ok right now - I posted on the site this morning that I was doing some maintenance and would be off and on several times today running some tests.

 

He closed to to the general public so he could have an open forum to the forum...LOL

 

Hey you guy's, Quite a number of pages ago we had some serious discussions on putting the dishpro plus lnb and the standard lnb together onto a single cable. Aside from some pictures or something, it is not possible. I have tried the diseq switch, the sw-21 switch, the 42switch, nothing. my conclusion is you were all correct!! I will buy a simple dish pro quad feed with no internal switch and hook it to a regular diseq switch. Some serious power problems!! Trying to swap the B*V lnb to a dishpro plus lnb. Thank-you for all the input!!!

 

Hey one more question. I know this is a 5k thread but guess what, if the support stops, all rules are out the window. My question is, can or will someone take the lid off their cs 6100 and take some pictures of the inside, and post the pictures so I can see the inside of the unit??? Please.

 

i really can't beleive that this forum is still open since coolsat 5000 is dead as a hog in a meat grinder. you need to open a new thread call fta receivers. because that is what everyone is talking about anyway, or anything but coolsat.

 

if we all know that we can come here for help and information, i don't think it really matters what the thread is called.

 

Feel free to go ahead and start it.

 

does anyone know whats goin on with the cs 5k

 

I've fed a dish pro 500 (dual lnb) and a dish network (single lnb)into a cs 4 into 1 (diseqc sw); works for d*n and b*v ...