User manual

DATA
TECHNIC
DIAGRAM
ENERGY
Active Power
Apparent Power
Mode Apparent Active Factor
StandBy 23 W 14 W 0.61
Reception 31 W 19 W 0.61
PVR 33 W 21 W 0.63
Nickolas
Ovsyadovskiy
TELE-satellite
Test Center
Hungary
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TELE-satellite & Broadband — 12-01/2009 — www.TELE-satellite.com
tion. MP3 player might look
simple, but it perfectly does
its job. And, as also already
mentioned, the latest version
of firmware supports FAT32
for the USB sticks, so you no
longer have to worry about for-
matting it in a less popular file
system.
Upgrading the firmware to the
most actual version also helped
curing some hangs that we’ve
experienced during the early
stages of our tests. It clearly
shows, that ABCom is busy
working on improving it. But,
the beauty of the whole thing is
that it’s a Linux-based receiver!
Alternative firmware is already
starting to appear including
even the legendary Enigma. A
video of a first Enigma HD test
version can be seen at their
website www.abipbox.com.
So although it’s more a family
receiver at the moment, we can
already expect its full potential
to be uncovered soon.
ManufacturerABCom s.r.o., Gogolova 1, 95501 Topolcany, Slovakia
Tel [phone]
Fax[phone]
Internetwww.abipbox.com [e-mail]
ModelIPBox 900HD
FunctionDigital Linux-based HDTV PVR receiver for
DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C and DVB-T reception
Channel memory 10000
Symbol rate1~45 Ms/sec.
SCPCyes
DiSEqC1.0 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3
USALSyes
Scart1
HDMIyes
A/V output3 x RCA
YUV output3 x RCA
UHF outputno
S-Video outputno
0/12 Volt connectionno
Dig. Audio connectionyes
Ethernet portyes
USB 2.0 portyes
RS232 interfaceyes
EPGyes
C/Ku band compatibleyes
Power supply110-245 VAC, 50/60 Hz
Dimension300x60x240mm
Starting with a switch-on peak the box stays 15 min in StandBy, then regular
receptions starts for another 15 min. Then an external HDD with its own power
supply is connected to the USB and PVR is started.
Expert Opinion
+
Promising feature-loaded Linux-based receiver
for HDTV and SDTV, supporting satellite, cable
and terrestrial reception, depending on the
installed tuner.
Satellite tuner that we’ve tested is quite sensi-
tive.
No family member should have problems with
operating it.
Logically designed remote control.
Support of FAT32 for the USB dongles.
Built-in power supply for external hard disks.
Adjusting an average channel audio volume in the channel list.
Extended searching possibilities in the EPG.
User-friendly PVR with timeshift.
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900HD, compared with its “older brother”, 9000HD, can have
only one tuner at a time installed, but for a regular home usage
this shouldn’t be a big problem. However, it still would have been
nice to leave a possibility to install the HDD “internally”, so users
upgrading from IPBox 250S or 350S could just move their HDD
with recordings into the new 900HD, and get immediate access
to them.
Minor issue, which can hopefully be fixed in one of the coming
versions - 900HD doesn’t detect the DRE-crypt CI module, which
is widely used in some East European countries.
SCPC reception with SR of just 1425
Adjusting the channels’ volume in the list