After
two referrals, I finally visited Digital Life electronics on Kamae
Lane, Luthuli avenue. Its true the thyword decoder is found in this shop (the silver one at the bottom)
and @ Ksh12000. Only to find out today from
mtuko2, that it costs Ksh8000. I requested they
power it up and test it for me. First of all the DVBT-2 part. The thing
didn't seem to work with the antenna plugged in but interestingly after
the antenna jack was plugged into another STB, Sky life (Ksh3500) it
worked perfectly with a relatively strong signal quality. The antenna
was plugged in the thyword again and again No Signal. Now I know it has a
weak dvbt2 tuner. The Sky life is the STB at the very top of the pic.
The second part to be tested was the satellite part. After the jamaa
plugged in the F-Type connector, the thyword box switches itself off. It
was behaving like it was struggling to boot. Quickly I told him unplug
it (its obvious that his cable had a short circuit as many members can
testify). Surely after removing the F connector it came on again.
So I asked the guy what version DiSEqC it was, is it 1.0 or 2.0. It was
pretty clear to me he has never heard of anything like that. OK to make
things simpler I ask how many dishes can it handle? Still :der:.
So he calls the chick to help him out only for her to plug in the same
F-Type connector:der:. This is when I take the picture. That brown hand
you see on the decoders is the chic's hand while the blue thing in the
background is the jamaa's dust coat.
After this incident now the two sales persons are embarrassed and tell
me to come later. The chick even asks a nearby customer to help her
(maybe one of you guys?). The customer blatantly refuses (OK now I know
he is not one of you fellow members). Maybe its because they sell stuff
at exorbitant prices.
I ask if they have another decoder in stock which the replied yes.
So? Can you test it for me?
Please come back later they reply.
After this I visited Riwira only to find another chick:der:. I tell her
Wacha niongee na mzee? The Mzee, (many of you know him) tells me he has
never heard of such a decoder. Now he tries to read out loud to me the
features of an SRT4950 on display to see if he will get the term dvbs2
as well as dvbt2 written?