User manual

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onds. For example, the AV settings
screen, where you can select the
aspect ratio, TV system (SD-PAL,
SD-NTSC, 720p-50 Hz, 720p-60
Hz, 1080i-50 Hz or 1080i-60 Hz), as
well as the parameters of the Dolby
Digital audio.
Installation of the AB Boxes that
we know wouldn’t be complete with-
out connecting it to your home net-
work, or directly to Internet. In case
you have a router, just connect the
IPBox 900HD to it with an Ethernet
cable, and you’re set. DHCP should
take care about all the IP address
setting hassle etc, but if for what-
ever reason it doesn’t work, all the
parameters can be set up manu-
ally. If you’re connecting directly to
the Internet, ADSL user information
take just seconds to be entered. At
the moment it can mainly be used
for the convenient software upgrade
from www.abipbox.com. IPBox
900HD automatically logs in to the
FTP server, offering you several
firmware versions to choose from.
You can forget about all the trou-
ble getting the latest software to
your receiver via RS-232 or USB
port, the needed files downloaded
and installed earlier then you can
realise it. And this makes sense, for
example, in the latest firmware ver-
sion, ABCom added the support of
FAT32 file system for the MP3 files
and images you have on your USB
dongle, so an endless search for
nfs/ext formatting and access utili-
ties for your Windows-based PC is a
nightmare to forget. The hard disk
for recording transmissions still has
to be formatted in ext, but this is
something IPBox 900HD can per-
fectly take care of.
Everyday Use
Once the channel search is com-
pleted, IPBox 900HD attempts to
get the picture from the last chan-
nel it succeeded to store. Should it
be unavailable for whatever reason,
just press “OK” button to access a
perfectly thought through channel
list. It might seem a bit minimalistic
at first, but try clicking around, and
you’ll discover that it’s quite fea-
ture-loaded. Pressing the red button
once or several times lets you sort
the channel list in different ways -
by alphabet, by package, by satel-
lite, by provider, FTA/encrypted.
FAV button toggles between the
main list and favorite list display,
by default there are five - Sports,
Drama, News, Movie and Music, but
you can create as many new ones as
you wish. However, to add channels
to them, a special menu should be
called, where the main list and the
favorite group appear at the same
time, so it’s not enough just to mark
the needed channels in the main list.
Returning to the channel list itself,
pressing an “i” button allows you to
delete, hide, lock, rename or move
the selected channel, and, what we
especially liked, adjust it’s default
audio volume. It can be so annoy-
ing, when zapping around you end-
lessly have to adjust the volume on
your TV-set or the receiver, because
the providers didn’t care to make it
perfectly equal. With IPBox 900HD
it’s a one-time work to program it,
and you would never have to worry
about it again.
Talking about zapping, it might
not be surprisingly fast, but still,
channel changing time will not get
disturbing. It ranges from 0.5 up to
1.5 seconds, depending the chan-
HDD Setup
Automatic Search
Information screen with recording in progress