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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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I hooked up yesterday and... The picture is crystal clear...but... The sound is BAD; very bad - bordering on HORRIBLE; especially because it is a digital transmission... And before some one suggest it, I have hooked it up to my Marantz PM4200 stereo amp and out through the Mission M71 speakers [via IXOS interconnects and speaker cables all with gold plugs]; In other words, I listen through a fairly good sound system. Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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It sounds like a movie from the 1960s! Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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Agreed.Sound quality ni matope!! Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/21/2006 Posts: 422 Location: Nairobi
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Now this sound problem, The TV Volume has to be fuuuuuuuull paka mmwisho yawa. What is the solution. Smart TV was worse you could have full volume and still hear whispers, ZUKU is not an exemption near full volume and still just whispers, Star times is almost like Smart TV (it collapsed) full volume and almost zero sound, how is sound quality for GO Tv.
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/12/2010 Posts: 474 Location: Nairobi
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DSTV...the only quality entertainment in Kenya. Keep it simple
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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richdad wrote:DSTV...the only quality entertainment in Kenya. Yeah, until all their channels start repeating programmes! I've had it for two years and now I never see anything new on any channel... everything is a repeat - yak! Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 4/30/2008 Posts: 6,029
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mukiha wrote:richdad wrote:DSTV...the only quality entertainment in Kenya. Yeah, until all their channels start repeating programmes! I've had it for two years and now I never see anything new on any channel... everything is a repeat - yak! sell the dish and decoder.i sold mine in june and the savings is great.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 2/3/2010 Posts: 1,797 Location: Kenya
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try the free to air set top you wont regret I may be wrong..but then I could be right
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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digitek1 wrote:try the free to air set top you wont regret Won't that only give me local TV? Will I get Fox, BBC, NatGeo etc? Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/7/2010 Posts: 2,148 Location: elderville
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Layman wrote:Now this sound problem, The TV Volume has to be fuuuuuuuull paka mmwisho yawa. What is the solution. Smart TV was worse you could have full volume and still hear whispers, ZUKU is not an exemption near full volume and still just whispers, Star times is almost like Smart TV (it collapsed) full volume and almost zero sound, how is sound quality for GO Tv. Never experienced that with Zuku TV. Reminds me though of a time when someone had set the maximum sound of DSTV in the settings to real low and however much I tried to increase the volume it could not be loud enough. Maybe the same thing happened to you with Zuku TV. He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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Layman wrote:Now this sound problem, The TV Volume has to be fuuuuuuuull paka mmwisho yawa. What is the solution. Smart TV was worse you could have full volume and still hear whispers, ZUKU is not an exemption near full volume and still just whispers, Star times is almost like Smart TV (it collapsed) full volume and almost zero sound, how is sound quality for GO Tv. The problem with StarTimes is not LOUDNESS; it is CLARITY. It sounds like those old movies made in the 1960s and 50s! Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 4/22/2010 Posts: 11,522 Location: Nairobi
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mukiha wrote:Layman wrote:Now this sound problem, The TV Volume has to be fuuuuuuuull paka mmwisho yawa. What is the solution. Smart TV was worse you could have full volume and still hear whispers, ZUKU is not an exemption near full volume and still just whispers, Star times is almost like Smart TV (it collapsed) full volume and almost zero sound, how is sound quality for GO Tv. The problem with StarTimes is not LOUDNESS; it is CLARITY. It sounds like those old movies made in the 1960s and 50s! ...i thought such things can be sorted out from the production house,let them know whats happening...for how long has DSTV be around again?the competition at some point will catch up possunt quia posse videntur
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/9/2009 Posts: 2,003
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mukiha wrote:I hooked up yesterday and...
The picture is crystal clear...but...
The sound is BAD; very bad - bordering on HORRIBLE; especially because it is a digital transmission...
And before some one suggest it, I have hooked it up to my Marantz PM4200 stereo amp and out through the Mission M71 speakers [via IXOS interconnects and speaker cables all with gold plugs]; In other words, I listen through a fairly good sound system. True the picture is clear but I almost never bought it when I sampled with their StarTimes TVs at their store. Those TVs are bogus. For the sound, you have to put the decoders to max and then use the TVs volume too! I hope they read this feedback from customers. I am waiting to see how timely payment takes effect. And why did they tell me I can't access the supposedly free-to-air channels if I don't pay?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/15/2011 Posts: 4,518
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radio wrote:mukiha wrote:I hooked up yesterday and...
The picture is crystal clear...but...
The sound is BAD; very bad - bordering on HORRIBLE; especially because it is a digital transmission...
And before some one suggest it, I have hooked it up to my Marantz PM4200 stereo amp and out through the Mission M71 speakers [via IXOS interconnects and speaker cables all with gold plugs]; In other words, I listen through a fairly good sound system. True the picture is clear but I almost never bought it when I sampled with their StarTimes TVs at their store. Those TVs are bogus. For the sound, you have to put the decoders to max and then use the TVs volume too! I hope they read this feedback from customers. I am waiting to see how timely payment takes effect. And why did they tell me I can't access the supposedly free-to-air channels if I don't pay? True.I use the tv volume as well. I find it fine and the great thing is,I dont have an outside ariel!! all channels are crystal clear with the inside tv ariel not the decoder ariel. But I apart from discovery? i dnt really bother. "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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radio wrote:mukiha wrote:I hooked up yesterday and...
The picture is crystal clear...but...
The sound is BAD; very bad - bordering on HORRIBLE; especially because it is a digital transmission...
And before some one suggest it, I have hooked it up to my Marantz PM4200 stereo amp and out through the Mission M71 speakers [via IXOS interconnects and speaker cables all with gold plugs]; In other words, I listen through a fairly good sound system. True the picture is clear but I almost never bought it when I sampled with their StarTimes TVs at their store. Those TVs are bogus. For the sound, you have to put the decoders to max and then use the TVs volume too!
I hope they read this feedback from customers. I am waiting to see how timely payment takes effect. And why did they tell me I can't access the supposedly free-to-air channels if I don't pay? I will repeat this 100 times if necessary: it is NOT the VOLUME I have a problem with. It is the CLARITY!!!!! The volume is OK, but their sound is like that of the 1960s and 50s Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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I share your pain @ Muthee.....but ain't many here who watched "FaKshuo firims"  Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/6/2008 Posts: 3,548
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Mzee! You really know how to 'listen' eho? Hiyo marantz set up? Ama uko NSIS? A New Kenya
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 11/12/2012 Posts: 92
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what mukiha means is that the sound has "no depth " ie its not even 2.0 dolby stereo(20khz-20hz)sound.....I thought it should have been 5.1 capable .terrestrial digital pictures are even worse than uhf cause of compression but sound should be mp3 128 bit quality.
I believe they have poor equipment ...hata unjiru TV sounds like that after all he uses sufurias for transmission :).
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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Much Know wrote:Mzee! You really know how to 'listen' eho? Hiyo marantz set up? Ama uko NSIS? NSIS??????? NO! Just a normal home hi-fi kit... but not one of those dreadful 10,000W lousy "boom-boxes". This is one is only 30W per channel...and the Missions produce 88db/W... while the Ixos cable are made from pure crystal oxygen-free copper... Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/6/2008 Posts: 3,548
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Thanks for the sound set up ideas. I will be putting quite a lot into sound soon. A New Kenya
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