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part, we got here an E-SATA port,
and even a 5V output to supply
your external HDD with power. Now
that’s what we call “caring about
the user” !
We had contradicting impressions
about the remote control at first.
Yes, it’s also packed with buttons,
but some of them are located in
places, where you wouldn’t expect
them to be at first. But once actual
tests started, we could get used to
it amazingly fast. Actually, it was
so logic to locate the “Menu” and
“Next” buttons to the left and right
side of the cursor keys respec-
tively! Already after initial setup,
your finger would intuitively search
for them there, raising a question,
why hardly anybody ever thought
to organize the buttons so logically
before. Each part of the remote
control has buttons grouped for a
special purpose - either for the PVR
controlling, for the channel list orga-
nizing, for accessing the multimedia
features etc. But the good part from
the previous ABBoxes’ remote con-
trol remained - you can easily pro-
gram it to control also your TV-set.
Quite a large list with various TV
models can be found on the last 11
pages of the user manual.
Which, in its turn, also deserves
some good words. Every single
menu item of the official firm-
ware is explained in details. With
a step-by-step installation guide,
you won’t get lost, even if it’s the
first receiver you’re ever installing.
Several connection variants are
also clearly explained, and, in case
you ordered a terrestrial or a cable
tuner as well, full channel versus
frequency charts are included, so
you won’t have to google around
for this information.
Initial Setup
Once the mains plug of IPBox
900HD gets into the electricity
socket in your home for the very
first time, you’ll land in an instal-
lation wizard, which will first try to
clear the language issue, offering
you to select preferred
languages for
the on-
screen menu, audio, subtitles and
teletext. There is a lot to choose
from - English, Russian, French,
Italian, Dutch, German, Danish,
Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Norwe-
gian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish,
Swedish, Greek, Turkish, Korean,
Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian.
Second step lets you set up the
current date and time, and choose
whether you’d like to have it auto-
matically set in the future. Third
screen finally gets you closer to
channel reception, in case of a sat-
ellite tuner, this is the place where
you have to enter the parameters
of your system and program the
satellites you plan to receive.
Even an advanced system should
be no problem, since all DiSEqC
versions, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3
(USALS) are supported. LOF can be
freely changed for every satellite,
so even an exotic LNB would work
perfectly.
Once all the basic satellite data
is stored, press the yellow button
to proceed to the Channel Search
menu. Here you have the two
expected options - Manual or Auto-
matic search. The latter just asks
you, whether you’d like to have
only FTA, only Crypt channels, or
both, and if a network search would
make you more happy, by filling the
list with as many channels as pos-
sible. That’s all it takes here, just
click “Search” and have a cup of
coffee. Or not? Since ASTRA 19.2E
position was fully scanned in 5
minutes, resulting in 1092 TV and
217 Radio channels. So if you just
can’t wait to get that picture on the
screen, you’d better stick around!
In case of the manual search,
you’ve got all the options you need
for locking to DVB-S and DVB-S2
transponders, with modulation
(QPSK or 8PSK) and special FEC
variants for the latter. Entering
PID codes is possible in a special
menu, and IPBox 900HD has no
problem with SCPC reception, Cal-
abria Channel from HELLAS SAT 2
at 39.0E with SR of just 1425, was
locked in a flash!
The on-screen menu is logi-
cally organized, you can find
any needed option in a
couple of sec-
tors. Let’s start with the main power
switch. Since the box we got for test-
ing was equipped with DVB-S/S2
tuner, there is an IF input and the
loop-through output, USB, RS-232 and
Ethernet ports, one Scart-connector,
three RCA jacks for video and audio
output, another three - for YUV video
output. Since we are talking about a
HDTV receiver, HDMI socket couldn’t
have been left out. S/PDIF output is
also useful, if you pay extra attention
to the audio quality. As for the PVR
Main Menu
Firmware update over the Internet
DVB-S2 Manual Channel Search
Satellite Configuration