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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 750071" data-attributes="member: 82144">That's excellent news! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />It is always a bit of an effort to get up on the roof with all the equipment, and the fiddling can take a little time, but I've learned ***so*** much from doing it. The lesson about alignment is certainly true. I have three twin output LNBs on a regular 90cm offset dish at 8 degrees of separation (152e, 156e, 160e). Getting that set up perfectly took me at least a day, but now that it is done it is wonderful.Yes, I've thought the same thing but never had the time to implement it. One day I will get around to it... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />For a CAM, MTD just means the ability to decrypt channels simultaneously. It is not about whether all the channels are on the same transponder or not. CAMs that support MTD are usually limited by tuners - tuners can only tune to one transponder at a time. That is why the CAM information usually says "on the same transponder". The Octopus is special - it allows the CAM to be shared between tuners. *Each Octopus tuner can only decrypt one channel at a time*, but you can decrypt multiple channels from any transponder (one per tuner) as long as the CAM supports it.So to take your example of the Aston 2.2 CAM: that CAM can decrypt 2 channels at once. In a "traditional" MTD setup you could watch or record two encrypted channels, and they would have to be on the same transponder. With the Octopus you can take the same CAM and use it to watch or record two channels on any transponder. You would have to use two tuners to do that, even if the channels were on the same transponder.The ultimate setup would be an Octopus that allowed each tuner to decrypt more than 1 channel. That setup does not exist though... yet! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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