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TEST REPORT

04-05/2009

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TELE-satellite & Broadband — 04-05/2009 — www.TELE-satellite.com

HDTV Satellite PVR Receiver

How powerful can a modern

Linux HD PVR receiver be?

AB IPBox 910HD

The progress in receiver

manufacturing is simply amazing!

Could we have thought several years

ago, when we endlessly struggled with

analogue receivers, that a similarily looking box would not

just only give us a fantastically coloured and unbelieveably

clear picture, but also would allow playing music and video

ﬁles, sending e-mails, playing games? The border between

computers and receivers is disappearing, giving birth to

family-friendly devices with a huge potential for more

advanced users.

And ABCom, famous for it’s

powerful Linux-based receiv-

ers is certainly helping to

make this happen. They are

decently doing their home-

work, constantly upgrading

hardware and software. It’s

especially pleasant to see that

several drawbacks of their

previous model are already

ﬁxed. Today we had a chance

to test AB IPBox 910HD, a

close twin to 900HD, that

we’ve examined a couple of

issues ago (TELE-satellite 08-

09/2008).

The newer model kept all

advantages of the previous

one. Both high and standard

deﬁnition channel reception,

both in DVB-S and DVB-S2,

both in MPEG-2 and MPEG-

4. You would rather prefer to

help your grandma continue

AB IPBOX 910HD

Satisﬁes almost everyone with its

total ﬂexibility and universality

Summary of content (6 pages)

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TEST REPORT HDTV Satellite PVR Receiver AB IPBox 910HD How powerful can a modern Linux HD PVR receiver be? The progress in receiver manufacturing is simply amazing! AB IPBOX 910HD Satisﬁes almost everyone with its Could we have thought several years total ﬂexibility and universality ago, when we endlessly struggled with analogue receivers, that a similarily looking box would not just only give us a fantastically coloured and unbelieveably clear picture, but also would allow playing music and video ﬁles,
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www.TELE-satellite.com/... TELE-satellite World Download this report in other languages from the Internet: watching soap operas on terrestrial tv, when the analogue broadcasts were shut off? 910HD would help you there too. Replacing DVB-S tuner with DVB-T is a matter of minutes. Same is true for a DVBC cable tuner. From a distance you would hardly notice any visible difference between 900HD and 910HD. But the little things is something that counts here.
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were busy, so there should be something new! Ok, here we can select all the screen parameters, like aspect ratio, TV system, Dolby, Scart, HDMI and S/PDIF output formats. Here’s a submenu where we can connect our 910HD to the local network and/or Internet, check parameters of the harddisks or make a factory reset.
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This is where the wonderful PVR comes into sight. 910HD doesn’t just let you connect an external HDD to USB or ESATA port, it already has one inside. Our test model was shipped with a 500 GB HDD, which is quite large to handle not just the PVR recording, but also DivX movies and MP3 music storage. But while we focus on the PVR, it’s worth noticing the “Envelope” button, which lets you access all the records in a couple of clicks, and the wonderful Timeshift option.
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Updating the ﬁrmware For such powerful and truly universal receiver it’s important to keep the internal software up-to-date, because it’s enormous potential is still not fully uncovered. ABCom attempted to simplify it, by adding the possibility to down- load and install the ﬁrmware to go to “Advanced Setup” right from the box, without - “Network Update” menu. any external devices needed. And what have we here? Two But, unfortunately, something totally went seriously wrong.
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+ Expert Opinion A receiver that would satisfy almost everyone, since it can change completely with different ﬁrmware types. In case the ofﬁcial one is installed, it’s really easy to control, even children wouldn’t have probNickolas lems ﬁnding a favorite cartoon channel. Ovsyadovskiy TELE-satellite An alternative ﬁrmware can even make a hardTest Center Hungary core DXer happy. Total ﬂexibility and universality - DVB-S, DVBS2, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, HDTV and SDTV are perfectly received.