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Triple Dragon FTA Satellite Receiver
Talk about sweet!! This is the ultimate Sat PVR Setup. 3000 Free Channels on a FTA box, most of them international though but these boxes can be subscribed to some Subscription and PPV Sat services.
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System Software:
Linux, Kernel 2.6.12 (Open Source)
Software and Applications upgradeable
Plug ins:
Subtitles
Teletext
Samba Server
MP3 Player
Picture Viewer (jpg, gif, png)
Media Player (MPEG-1 *.MPEG and MPEG-2 *MPG program-
streams (including VCD- *.DAT, S-VCD - *.MPG and unencrypted
DVD- *.VOB)
http Server
CIFS network share
NFS network share
Flash cp-tool
Games
8 x 1 Memory Card Reader on USB Base
WLAN on USB Base
PVR:
120gb Hard Drive Installed and configured
Hardware processing components:
CPU IBM PowerPC 405, 350 MIPS, 252MHz
RAM 64 MB for operation system and applications
16 MB for graphical subsystem, Video-Reatebuffer,
Demultiplexer-Queues and Audiobuffer.
ROM 8 MB Flash
Tuner:
Input 1x F-connector
Output 1x F-connector
Input-/Output-Impedance 75 Ohm
IF-frequency range 950 - 2150 MHz
IF-signal level -65 to -25 dBm
Channel Bandwidth variable 10 - 30 MHz in steps of 2,5 MHz
Tuning system PLL-synthesizer
Minimum tuning step size 125 KHz
PLL- Lock time typ. 20 ms / max. 50 ms
LNB-Supply voltage 14 / 18 V and 13 / 17 V
max. LNB-Supply current 400 mA
LNB-Control signal 22 KHz / 0,6 Vpp
Demodulator:
Modulation types QPSK (DVB-systems)
BPSK* (DSS-systems)
Symbol rates 2 - 45 Mbaud
FEC DVB: 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8
DSS: 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 6/7
MPEG Decoder:
Video MPEG-2 according ISO/IEC 13818-2 MP@ML
MPEG-1 according ISO/IEC 11172-2
Audio MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 (layer I und II) and MPEG-1 layer III (MP3)
Audio-/Video In-/Outputs:
Combined in-/outputs 2x Euro-AV (SCART), of it :
1x TV-Out with RGB/YUV (optional with sync on green),
composite video (CVBS) and stereo audio
1x Aux-In for RGB, composite video (CVBS) and stereo audio
1x RF-Out (UHF-Modulator - controllable via software)
Video In-/Outputs 1x RCA (Cinch) composite video out (CVBS)
1x RCA (Cinch) composite video in (CVBS)
1x Mini-DIN (Hosiden) s-video out
Audio In-/Outputs 1x RCA (2x Cinch) stereo audio out
1x RCA (2x Cinch) stereo audio in
1x RCA (Cinch) electrical S/PDIF digital audio out
1x Toslink optical S/PDIF digital audio out
Data In-/Outputs:
Network 1x RJ45 100 Mbit/s Full Duplex
RS 232 Serial
USB 1.1 1x Typ A with optional cable adapter
Systembus 1x 50-pin Mini-Sub-D Connector for DVR-3000
IDE 1x 40-pin ribbon cable connector for additional harddisk
Pay-TV:
Integrated 2x Cardreader licensed for Conax
and FireCrypt (Dreamcrypt).
Other systems on demand necessary licensing
Common Interface 1x Slot for CI-modules
User interface:
Global OnScreen display OSD an TV and LC-display
OSD-/LCD-Languages English, German, Greek, Italian,
Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak and Turkish
Channel management:
Storable channels Depending on the channel name length
between 6000 and 8000.
With reconfiguration of the memory management even more
like 10 000
Favorites unlimited, free editable
Channel search per satellite Automatically all configured satellites,
User selectable storing of all channels or only free to air channels.
Channel search per transponder, by input of satellite-
and transponder relevant data
Manual channel search
Antenna control:
Mini-DiSEqC
DiSEqC 1.0
DiSEqC 1.1
DiSEqC 1.2 (Rotor)
USALS (Rotor) compatible
12V Relais, also in combination with DiSEqC/USALS
LNB- Power for polarity control or disconnectible
for special purpose configurations
C-Band reception
Unicable LNBf support
Video outputs:
RGB via SCART-connector
YUV via SCART-connector
S-Video dedicated output Mini-DIN-connector
Composite Video (CVBS) dedicated output Cinch-connector
and SCART-connector
HF-modulated UHF channel 21 to 69, adjustable by software
Videoformats:
50 Hz Systems PAL-B/G/H, PAL-N, PAL-I, PAL-K,
SECAM-L/D/K, SECAM-H
60 Hz Systems NTSC-M, PAL-M
Picture aspect ratio:
4:3 in this case 16:9 as letterbox or zoomed
16:9 in this case 4:3 with vertical borders
Automatic 4:3 / 16:9 signalling to the TV via
SCART-switching voltage
Audio- Options:
Dolby Digital, AC3, if available by the channel.
Bitstream out to S/PDIF-outputs
DTS, if available by the channel.
Bitstream out to S/PDIF-outputs
Electronic Program Guide EPG:
Short event info for current and next transmission
Long event info for all available transmissions
of the channel by request
Teletext:
Software-Decoder according to Level 1.5 incl. enhancements
Cache 4000 pages, including Sub Pages
Character sets Latin including all national subsets, Cyrillic, Greek
Navigation systems TOP, FLOF and Cursor
Subtitles also without knowledge about the page number via OSD
Software Updates:
Media via Network from a PC
using Windows PC via free tool or every TFTP-server-software
using Linux PC via Linux-integrated TFTP-Server
from USB Stick without Network (Plug in)
Shipped parts:
Set-Top-Box
Power cable
Remote control
2 x Micro AAA batteries
Printed User Manual (English)
Dragon Tail (USB Hard Drive Interface)
Euro RF to F Type Coax Cable Adapter
Dimensions:
Width approx. 43 cm / 17 inch
Hight approx. 8,5 cm / 3,3 inch
Depth approx. 31 cm / 12,2 inch
Weight approx. 3,5 kg
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