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Chers lecteurs,
Once again we are introducing satellite signal analyzers in this issue of TELE-satellite. Each device is wonderfully designed and full of features that we wouldnt have thought possible just a few years ago. Nevertheless, they are compact and affordable. Why is the signal analyzer market taking off like this all of a sudden? Obviously theres a demand for these analyzers otherwise so many of them wouldnt be available. Another reason is that today its possible to manufacture signal analyzers in smaller numbers for a niche market like satellite installers. And wouldnt you know, this niche market mushroom clouds into an exceptionally large market since today almost every satellite TV viewer has their own signal analyzer. If you can provide an attractive product at an attractive price to a niche segment, it will eventually transform into a market. Are there additional niches in the signal analyzer market or has it gone as far as it can? I personally would like to use a signal analyzer that in addition to showing me all the satellite channel frequencies, terrestrial digital transponders and cable specific parameters would also show me the WLAN frequencies. The latter is already available and TELE-satellite has already reported on this. But what about mobile telephone frequencies? When will a signal analyzer be able to measure the receivable frequency range, what the field strength is and how high the data transfer rate could be? More and more people dont even use a hard-wired telephone anymore; they prefer instead to use their mobile telephones. Up until now, IPTV was meant to be used with fixed DSL connections, but for me it doesnt look like this will be the future considering the consistently increasing number of people who are watching TV via tablet and i-pad computers. I believe that at some point Internet TV will be receivable via mobile frequencies and I dont mean mobile TV like DVB-H, rather IPTV or WebTV via mobile Internet links. That the technology to transmit TV channels is continuously expanding to include different paths, its becoming clear that a universal TV signal analyzer that truly covers every possible range would be a new market segment. For those who sell and install reception systems for customers, the signal analyzer is the tool used to identify what can and cannot be received at a customer site. The signal analyzer market is not by any means exhausted, rather, it expands automatically whenever a new frequency range is used to transmit TV channels. If you want to keep up to speed on whats going on, youll need a corresponding signal analyzer.
Sincerely,
Alexander Wiese Rdacteur en chef de TL-satellite
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tractive price to a niche segment, it will eventually transform into a market. Are there additional niches in the signal analyzer market or has it gone as far as it can? I personally would like to use a signal analyzer that in addition to showing me all the satellite channel frequencies, terrestrial digital transponders and cable specific parameters would also show me the WLAN frequencies. The latter is already available and TELE-satellite has already reported on this. But what about mobile telephone frequencies? When will a signal analyzer be able to measure the receivable frequency range, what the field strength is and how high the data transfer rate could be? More and more people dont even use a hard-wired telephone anymore; they prefer instead to use their mobile telephones. Up until now, IPTV was meant to be used with fixed DSL connections, but for me it doesnt look like this will be the future considering the consistently increasing number of people who are watching TV via tablet and i-pad computers. I believe that at some point Internet TV will be receivable via mobile frequen-
Dear Readers, once again we are introducing satellite signal analyzers in this issue of TELE-satellite. Each device is wonderfully designed and full of features that we wouldnt have thought possible just a few years ago. Nevertheless, they are compact and affordable. Why is the signal analyzer market taking off like this all of a sudden? Obviously theres a demand for these analyzers otherwise so many of them wouldnt be available. Another reason is that today its possible to manufacture signal analyzers in smaller numbers for a niche market like satellite installers. And wouldnt you know, this niche market mushroom clouds into an exceptionally large market since today almost every satellite TV viewer has their own signal analyzer. If you can provide an attractive product at an at-
cies and I dont mean mobile TV like DVB-H, rather IPTV or WebTV via mobile Internet links. That the technology to transmit TV channels is continuously expanding to include different paths, its becoming clear that a universal TV signal analyzer that truly covers every possible range would be a new market segment. For those who sell and install reception systems for customers, the signal analyzer is the tool used to identify what can and cannot be
received at a customer site. The signal analyzer market is not by any means exhausted, rather, it expands automatically whenever a new frequency range is used to transmit TV channels. If you want to keep up to speed on whats going on, youll need a corresponding signal analyzer. Sincerely, Alexander Wiese TELE-satellite Editor-in-Chief
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Company Overview: Best Digital TV Companies of the World.................................. 158 feature: HDTV Copyright Management .......... 174 feature: Tuner Secrets .................. 180 feature: Satellite Technology ......... 182
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ADVERTISERS INDEx 8DTEk ........................................... China .................. 47 AbC-bIZNIS .................................. Slovakia ............. 75 Ab-COM......................................... Slovakia .........28-29 Ab-COM......................................... Slovakia ........ 60-61 ALuOSAT ....................................... China .................101 AMIkO ........................................... Hungary ............. 73 ANDREAWEb ................................. Germany ...........197 AZbOx ........................................... Portugal ............211 AZuRE SHINE ................................ Taiwan...............183 bEIJING TOPREAL ......................... China .................117 bOIINGSAT ................................... China .................. 55 bOMARE ........................................ Algeria ..............125 bOxSAM ........................................ 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China .................212 DISHPOINTER ............................... uk .....................199 DOEbIS ......................................... Germany ........ 14-15 DOEbIS-JAEGER ............................ Germany ...........121 fuLAN ELECTRONICS .................... China .................... 5 GLObALINVACOM .......................... uk ...................... 37 GLObALSAT ................................... China .................. 51 GOLDENMEDIA .............................. Germany ............ 21 GOOSAT......................................... China .................. 51 HANGZHOu PREVAIL..................... China ..............42-43 HORIZON ...................................... uk .....................131 HubER+SuHNER ........................... 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TEST REPORT
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X-9100 Linux PVR de Inpax
Impossible de ne pas aimer cette petite bote Temps de dmarrage trs rapide grce une plus petite version de Linux Fonctionnement trs stable - Nous n'avons pas pu le planter Offre un affichage gant du mesureur de signal satellite embarqu Recherche aveugle (Blindscan) sophistique
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TEST REPORT
Rcepteur TVHD sous Linux
Le plaisir Turc
Un PVR haute dfinition sous Linux promettant un certain nombre doptions intressantes, le tout log dans un botier minuscule. Est-ce possible?
boutons sur le panneau frontal: Standby, chaine haut (flche-haut) et chaine bas (flche-bas). Un cran LED affiche le numro du canal actuel, ou lhorloge en mode veille. Un volet sur la partie de droite dissimule un port USB et une fente unique pour carte puce qui semble tre en mesure de lire une varit de cartes - Mme ma carte Sky Digital a t accepte et ma permis de voir toutes mes chanes dabonnement, sauf ceux qui sont lis un rcepteur individuel. Ce fut toute une surprise. La fente pour carte est la seule option daccs conditionnel: il ny a aucun espace pour ajouter une CAM.A larrire, lentre dantenne et la sortie boucle alimentent le seul tuner. Les options vido sont limites la prise HDMI, Pritel ou vido composite alors quil ya des sorties audio stro plus le S/ PDIF. Pour la connexion au
Faisant signe dIstanbul, en Turquie, le PVR X-9100 de INPAX en est presque une surprise. Le petit botier noir ne mesure que 26cm de large, 19cm de profondeur et 4 cm de hauteur et, est livr dans un lgant botier noir brillant avec une timide apparence. Il a juste trois
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monde extrieur, il ya un port Ethernet LAN et un port RS232. Un dmarrage froid du rcepteur ne tient pas aussi longtemps quon peut sattendre dun rcepteur sous Linux, prenant environ 45 secondes depuis le touch de linterrupteur laffichage dune image lcran. Cest lune des surprises qui provient du X-9100 utilisant une assez plus petite version embarque de Linux par rapport aux autres versions plus complexes que nous avons vu dans le pass. Ceux qui pourront tre effrays de faire un rglage dun rcepteur sous Linux lavenir, ne doivent pas trop sinquiter. Les options et le systme de menu ne sont pas plus compliqus que ceux dun rcepteur standard. USALS est pris en charge pour permettre une installation facile dun moteur DiSEqC, avec en prime, quelques grandes villes dj programm dans la mmoire du rcepteur. Un grand nombre de configuration de la tte (LNB) est inclus, et puisque le rcepteur est dorigine Turque, mme des rglages s p c i fi q u e s pour DIGITURK sont inclus. Si aucune dentre elles ne conviennent votre systme, les frquences LNB peuvent tre aussi spcifies manuellement.
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DiSEqC est support depuis la version 1,0 1,3 pour garantir que toute installation motorise ou commutation est prise en charge. 71 satellites en orbite sur la plante sont prprogramms dans le rcepteur et peuvent tre modifis et supprims selon les exigences. Les nouveaux satellites peuvent tre ajouts selon les besoins en spcifiant simplement la position orbitale. Si vous installez votre propre assiette, vous serez ravis de voir linclusion dune grande fonction de mesureur du signal lcran pour vous aider trouver un bon signal. Le balayage des satellites est rapide par rapport certains autres rcepteurs sous Linux. Pour les tlspectateurs de Canal Digitaal, TV Vlaanderen ou UPC Direct sur ASTRA 1, une fonction spciale de recherche rapide est disponible. Pour le reste dentre nous, une analyse standard seffectue travers le spectre du satellite en peu de temps. Une analyse sur Astra 2 a pris quatre minutes pour scanner les 90 frquences en mmoire. Un ajout trs apprci est loption de balayage aveugle (blind scan), de sorte que toute frquence non incluse dans la liste des transpondeurs peut tre trouve. Cela fonctionne un peu diffremment que dans dautres appareils que nous avons examins dans le pass. Premirement, tout le spectre de frquence est balay, en ajoutant les frquences nouvellement trouves la liste des transpondeurs en mmoire. Aprs cela, le balayage rgulier se lance, en scannant les nouvelles frquences avec ceux prcdemment enregistres. Cela ajoute un certain temps au processus de scannage, 2 minutes et demie ont t prises pour rechercher et ajouter les huit transpondeurs supplmentaires la liste, puis 4 ,15 autres minutes pour scanner lensemble. Le balayage aveugle nest pas cependant idal pour les amateurs de feed , car il ny a pas de possibilit
de scanner une portion de la bande de frquence. Les chanes sont accessibles partir dune liste de canaux de la mme faon que dans la plupart des autres rcepteurs. Les touches gauche et droite sont utilises pour filtrer une liste entre les FTAseulement, HD ou les chanes cryptes, et bien sr il y a la possibilit dafficher tout. Le bouton rouge peut tre utilis pour un filtrage plus pouss de liste en se limitant aux satellites indiqus dans la liste. Une fonction A-Z est galement disponible, qui fournit une liste filtre sur la premire lettre du nom du canal, et ne la trie pas plus loin que a Ainsi Azerbadjan TV devrait safficher avant Aastha TV si cet ordre se trouve dans la liste par dfaut - Je trouve cela quelque peu confus. Les touches ddies de page up et down sur la tlcommande permettent une navigation rapide dans ces listes ainsi que sur dautres dans les menus. La tlcommande est elle-mme un modle standard sensation gnrique, naidant pas en cas dappui occasionnel sur la touche qui rpte laction prcdente, plutt que celle que nous nous attendions. Une autre particularit assez singulire, cest que lordre des touches de couleur est diffrent de la squence standard rouge-vert-jaune- bleu. Je ne mtais mme pas aperu que cet ordre a t grav dans mon cerveau suite lutilisation et le test de tant de rcepteurs au fil des ans, mais je lai dmontr en appuyant sur bleu alors que je croyais presser le vert plusieurs fois. La tlcommande demeure simple, et il ny a pas de boutons pour slectionner le format correct, ou la rsolution de lcran, mais ces options peuvent tre trouves lintrieur du
menu de rglages du rcepteur. La plupart des options importantes se trouvent ici, y compris pour choisir entre RGB ou CVBS du port pritel. Pour accder cette dernire option, slectionner le mode HDMI 5761 et pousser le bouton de volume haut ou bas pour basculer entre RGB et CVBS Il existe une option particulire dans les Menus pour laquelle Inpax doit tre quand mme flicit. Cest loption pour mmoriser le rglage du niveau de volume sonore pour chaque canal individuellement. Ceci est la rponse parfaite cette situation tout a fait trop commune en changeant un canal plutt calme vers lun de ces canaux qui a un son tourn si fort que vos voisins se mettront immdiatement taper sur le mur. Bien sr, si seulement les niveaux audio pourraient tre rguls pour viter cette situation, une telle fonction ne serait pas ncessaire. Mais cela est peu probable quelle sortira de sitt et trs probablement jamais, alors en attendant: Merci Inpax de penser cela. Les fonctions ddition du canal sont limites la suppression, dplacement et renommer. Le besoin parfois important de modifier les PID, est manquant, par exemple. Il ya huit listes de favoris prrgles. Leurs noms sont assez tranges avec les premires lettres manquantes. Mais cest facile de corriger ce problme en ajoutant simplement un nouveau favori et lui donnant le nom que vous voulez. Le bouton jaune dans le menu FAV va crer une nouvelle liste favorite. Il ny a pas despace dans le minuscule box pour un disque dur, les enregistrements doivent tre effectus sur un priphrique USB branch sur la prise frontale. Les enregistrements peuvent tre lan-
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cs directement du bouton denregistrement de la tlcommande ou dun vnement dans la programmation qui peut tre rgl manuellement ou partir de lEPG. LEPG du 9100 est tout fait utilisable et peut basculer de loption pour un jour celle de sept jours. Cest un peu curieux cela car laffichage de la grille ne prend que le quart de lcran, donc ce nest pas le meilleur moyen pour jeter un coup dil rapide sur ce qui est prvu dans la prochaine heure ou deux. La
1. Blind scan ou recherche aveugle 2. Liste des chaines 3. EPG 4. Edition de favoris 5. Le navigateur de fichiers 6. client FTP 7. multi Picture-in-picture 8. Lecture d'un programme enregistr
programmation des vnements est galement de type standard, avec quelques options semblables, y compris celle du lundi au vendredi et week-ends seulement. Le rcepteur peut tre rgl pour enregistrer ou tout simplement basculer vers la chane slectionne lheure souhaite, et il y a aussi le choix pour lteindre la fin de lenregistrement. Si un enregistrement est en cours, la liste des canaux est limite uniquement aux chaines du transpondeur reu, il ny a donc aucune chance denregistrements perdus ou dextinction du rcepteur. Il est intressant de noter ce stade que le manuel met en garde que si la limite thorique de la taille du disque dur est de quatre partitions totalisant 2 traoctets (qui, je crois, sera mme pnible
pour moi de la remplir), il nest pas recommand dutiliser des partitions de plus de 120 giga-octets. Lenregistrement et la lecture fonctionnent trs bien, sans aucun problme signal - Mme lors de lenregistrement des chanes HD sur une cl USB. Mon exprience avec des rcepteurs sous Linux tait vague dans le pass. Je me souviens trop bien de quelques programmations denregistrements importants qui nont jamais commenc parce que le rcepteur stait plant des heures avant, et continuait afficher son quivalent sur la fentre dhorloge avec image fige de la dernire chane reue. Malgr tous mes efforts pour drouter et planter le petit box, je ntais pas capable du tout de le crasher mme lors de lenregistrement. Puisque les enregistrements sont stocks sur un priphrique USB, il est facile dy accder sur un PC. Un autre bon point va Inpax ici - Le menu de configuration donne un choix sur le format denregistrement entre les fichiers .MPG et .TS, un bon choix extra qui pourrait tre trs utile ceux qui souhaitent diter ou archiver leurs enregistrements sur DVD ou les convertir en dautres formats. Malgr la facilit de connexion lenvironnement extrieur via Ethernet, il nest pas possible daccder des enregistrements par FTP, ainsi la seule faon dy accder sera de dconnecter le priphrique USB et le brancher un ordinateur. Il y a un client FTP disponible, mais cela fonctionne dans une seule direction uniquement pour faire une copie du mdia sur la cl USB pour sa lecture. Il est galement possible de se connecter un partage SMB (Samba) de la mme manire unidirectionnelle. Les divers formats de fichiers qui peuvent tre relus sont nombreux et la plupart des exemples de fichiers que jai test ont t lus sans aucun problme. La liste inclut AVI, MPG, VOB, FLV, MP4, MKB, 3GP, ASF, ce qui couvre la plupart des bases. Cest
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9. L'interface Web intgre de Linux 10. Recherche satellite 11. mesureur de signal 12. Telnet dans le rcepteur
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agrable de voir que la liste des canaux enregistrs dans le format. SDX de SatcoDX peuvent tre galement imports du menu des Fichiers. On y trouve aussi un lecteur de radio Internet. Quand a marche, cest vraiment trs bien et une connexion a t maintenu,depuis mon lieu 12 en Angleterre une chane australienne, toute la nuit, sans aucun problme. Jai eu quelques message de serveur occup, mais quand jai pu passer travers, jai reu de bonne qualit audio de quelques stations qui accompagnaient cela avec des noms dartistes et titres de chansons. La navigation travers les longues listes de stations est un vrai casse tte car chaque page de la de Polka Heaven 247 (The liste est extraite de lInterWorlds Polka Network) du net la demande. Aprs un repeater amateur W6NUT. long moment en parcourant Je me demande, si mme les la liste alphabtique, jai radioamateurs de Californie abandonn sans terminer la peuvent imaginer quils sont lettre A, mais au moins il y couts sur un rcepteur a une liste de favoris ici aussatellite dans le monde via si. Cela serai trs prcieux lInternet? Et vais-je enfin arlorsque je veux revenir aux river la fin de la liste, pour stations mix sotrique que savoir si la Z100 de New York jai dj dcouvert, partir est disponible? En mloi-
gnant du rythme hypnotique de la polka llment suivant du Menu, on se retrouve avec un lecteur Youtube. Cela fonctionne trs bien galement, et o la qualit vido est assez bonne, cest tout fait regardable sur un tlviseur. Un certain nombre dadresses prrgles donne accs aux vidos les plus populaires actuellement et
de la comdie, la musique, des nouvelles, des sports et ainsi de suite. Une recherche est galement disponible qui renvoi ltrange et fantastique monde de Youtube votre TV. Cest un ajout intressant de lavoir avec la vido qui est lue avec beaucoup plus de fluidit que sur mon vieux PC surcharg. Le dernier lment du menu sur lensemble des applications Internet nest pas mentionn dans le manuel: Extra Movies . Je suis sr que la plupart dentre nous diraient oui avec plaisir quelques films supplmentaires, mais ce menu est protg par mot de passe; ici nous prsentons des explications tous, pour y accder: Saisissez les paramtres IP dans le menu de configuration, appuyez sur le bouton vert qui ferme le DHCP et propose le DNS1 la place. Saisissez 208.67.222.222 et enregistrer en appuyant sur le bouton rouge. Puis DNS2 apparat, saisissez encore une fois le mme IP 208.67.222.222 et enregistrer avec le bouton rouge. Maintenant, le rcepteur doit tre redmarr en lteignant et en lallumant. Allez de nouveau Extra Films et tapez maintenant 9-8-7-6 pour le mot de passe. Et voila, a marche. Il est possible dutiliser telnet pour accder au rcepteur et cela rvle une invite de commande du systme de BusyBox, tel quutilis par Kindle Amazon et de nombreux autres appareils. BusyBox donne accs quelques commandes simples de Linux qui sont probablement peu ou pas utiles lutilisateur rgulier mais nous pouvons au moins tre curieux et de voir ce qui est contenu dans la mmoire interne. De mme, la connexion avec un navigateur web fournit une interface pour le systme
dexploitation embarqu de Linux avec beaucoup dinformations de dbogage. Il ny a pas vraiment aucune chose utile galement ici mais les fans de Linux peuvent trouver ces informations intressantes .La possibilit dajouter ou non des applications au software intgr de la machine pour activer davantage de fonctionnalits, nest pas encore claire et il ny a aucune indication du rcepteur ou dans son manuel. Le X-9100 est un rcepteur sous linux diffrent de la plupart que nous avons vu dans le pass. Pour quelques uns, cela pourrait tre une dception puisquil ressemble plutt comme un rcepteur classique sur le march par
rapport ceux qui tournent avec de larges distributions de Linux tels Enigma2. Cela est cependant plus attrayant pour ceux qui veulent regarder la tlvision avec moins de tracas ou de peur de voir les choses ne fonctionnant pas aussi stables quelles ne peuvent. La connexion Internet est aussi simple que brancher un cble Ethernet si vous avez un DHCP disponible votre routeur, et les bonus supplmentaires des lecteurs de Youtube et de radio Internet sont vraiment utiles. Si linterface de radio Internet pourrait tre faite un peu mieux ca serait elle seule, un moyen idal et facile dy accder aux milliers de stations de bonne qualit. Ce
qui est le plus agrable, cest la fiabilit du rcepteur. Ma crainte de perdre des enregistrements en se basant sur mes expriences antrieures avec des rcepteurs sous Linux, a presque disparu. Les tests du rcepteur dans ce contexte ne mont pas laiss tomber du tout, et cest ce que la plupart des gens veulent et rclament: Un rcepteur qui fait tout ce qui est propos par ses options sans se planter des moments cruciaux. Il ya quelques petites bizarreries et critiques comme je lai dj mentionn auparavant, dont la plupart peuvent tre prises en charge dans des futures mises jour du logiciel. Il est impossible de ne pas aimer cette petite bote
Les rglages audio peuvent tre mmoriss distinctement pour chaque canal Accepte de trs larges disques durs via USB. Le logiciel fonctionne trs stable. PVR permet denregistrer en format .TS Une liste impressionnante de formats de fichiers pour la lecture.
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NPA ELEKTRONK SAN. VE TC.LTD.T. Kemeralt Str. efkat Business No: 1-3 Floor:4 Karaky, Istanbul, Turkey +90 212 293 63 12 | +90 212 293 63 13 +90 212 293 63 18 http://www.inpax.com info@inpax.com.tr / inpax@inpax.com.tr X-9100 Linux HD PVR HDTV Satellite Receiver with PVR Yes Yes 1.0/1.1/1.2/1.3 1 QPSK 2000 to 45000 QPSK 2000 to 45000 8PSK 2000 to 45000 MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MP@ML 2 (left & right) Composite, HDMI 480p, 480i, 576p, 576i. 720p, 1080i at 50Hz, 720p &1080i at 60Hz, 1080p at 30Hz No No S/PDIF Yes Yes 100-240V AC, 50/60Hz 2 None 1 universal
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Fax Website Email model Function ScPc compatible USALS DiSEqc Scart connectors Symbol rates
Le listing des chaines par ordre alphabtique tri sur la premire lettre seulement. Le code couleur de la tlcommande nest pas normalis
noire et dtre impressionn par la gamme complte des fonctions quelle contient. De faon gnrale cest une jolie petite machine qui fonctionne trs bien. Maintenant, vous mexcuserez- Il est temps de conclure ce rapport afin que je puisse regarder quelques
drles animaux sur Youtube, dcouter un peu plus de polka, et, oh! Jai presque oubli que je pourrais mme trouver un peu de temps loin de ces distractions pour regarder quelque chose de bon vieux TV HD sur mon nouveau petit compagnon aussi!
mPEG modes Audio outputs Video outputs Resolutions UHF output 0/12 volt output Digital audio output EPG c/Ku-band compatible Power supply common interface card slots
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Hailing from Istanbul, Turkey, the X-9100 PVR from INPAX is quite a surprise. The little black box measures just 26cm across, 19cm deep and 4cm high and comes in a stylish shiny black case with a minimalist appearance. There are just three buttons on the front panel: Standby, channel up and channel down. An LED display displays the current channel number, or the clock in standby. A flap on the right-hand side conceals a USB port and a single smart card slot which seems to be able to read a variety of cards it even accepted my Sky Digital card and allowed me to view all my subscription channels except those that are tied to an individual receiver. This was quite a surprise. The card slot is the only conditional access option: there is nowhere to add a CAM. At the back, the antenna input and loop-through serve the single tuner. Video options are limited to HDMI, Scart or composite video, whilst there are stereo audio outputs plus S/ PDIF. For connection to the outside world theres an Ethernet LAN port and an RS232 port. A cold start of the receiver doesnt take as long as might be expected from a Linux-based receiver, taking around 45 seconds from flicking the switch for a picture to appear on screen. This is one of the surprises that come from the X-9100 utilising a much smaller, embedded version of Linux than the more complex versions weve seen in the past. Those who might be daunted at the prospect of setting up a Linux receiver need not worry too much. The options and menu system are no more complicated than those of a standard receiver. USALS is supported to enable easy setup of a DiSEqC motor, with the added bonus of some major cities already being programmed into the receivers memory. A wide range of LNB settings are included, and as the receiver is of Turkish origin, special settings for DIGITURK are even included. If none of them suit your system the LNBs frequencies can also be specified manually. DiSEqC
is supported from version 1.0 to 1.3 to ensure that just about any motor or switching setup will be supported. 71 satellites from around the planet are pre-programmed into the receiver and these can be edited and deleted as required. New satellites can be added as required by simply specifying the orbital position. If you are setting your own dish up, youll be pleased to see the inclusion of a large on-screen signal meter function to help you find a good signal.
Scanning satellites is fast compared to some other Linux-based receivers. For viewers of Canal Digitaal, TV Vlaanderen or UPC Direct on ASTRA 1, a special fast scan function is available. For the rest of us, a standard scan zips across the satellite spectrum in good time. A scan across Astra 2 took four minutes to scan the 90 stored frequencies. A very welcome addition is a blind scan option, so that any frequencies not already held in the transponder list can be found. This works a little differently than others weve seen in the past. First, the entire frequency spectrum is scanned, adding any newly-found frequencies to the stored transponder list. After this, the regular scan kicks in, scanning the new frequencies alongside those previously stored. This adds some time to the scanning process, 2,5 minutes were taken to find and add an extra eight transponders to the list, then another 4:15 to scan them all. The blind scan isnt ideal for feedhunting however, as there is no ability to scan a portion of the frequency band. Channels are accessed from a channel list similar to those on most other receiv-
ers. The left and right buttons are used to filter the list between FTA-only, HD and encrypted channels, plus of course there is the option to display everything. The red button can be used to filter the list further by limiting the satellites shown in the list. An A-Z function is also available, which filters the list by the first letter of the channel name, but doesnt sort it further than this so Azerbaijan TV would still appear ahead of Aastha TV if this was their order in the default list this I found just a little confusing. Dedicated page up and down buttons on the remote help to speed navigation of this and other lists around the menus. The remote itself is a standard, generic feeling model, not helped by the occasional occurrence of the pressed button repeating your previous action rather than the one you were expecting. Another rather strange quirk is that the order of the coloured function buttons is different from the normal red-green-yellowblue sequence. I didnt even know that this order has been burned into my brain from the use and testing of so many receivers over the years, but I proved that it
is by pressing blue when I thought I was pressing green several times. The remote is kept simple, and there are no buttons for selecting the correct aspect ratio, or screen resolution, but these options can be found inside the receivers settings menus. Most important options are found here, with just a few omissions for example I could not find anywhere to select between RGB or CVBS from the Scart port, even though both options are listed in the receiver manuals specifications list. There is one special feature in the menus where Inpax must however be congratulated. An option exists to store the sound volume setting for each channel individually. This is the perfect answer to that all-too-common situation of changing channel from an overly quiet one to one of those that has the sound cranked up so loud that your neighbours will be banging on the wall within no time. Of course, if only audio levels could be regulated to avoid this situation, such a function wouldnt be needed. But that is unlikely to happen anytime soon and very likely never, so in the
meantime: thank you Inpax for thinking of this. The channel editing functions are limited to deletion, moving, and renaming. The sometimes important ability to edit PIDs is missing, for example. There are eight preset favourites lists, whose names dont appear to be editable. Their names are quite strange, with the first few letters missing. At first it looked like this was an oversight in the menu design, with the icons that match the colour buttons obscuring the first part of the name. But no, even when the FAV button is used to give a channel list of just the individual favourites lists, they are the same! So, as they are not editable, get used to choosing between the lists with names such as ies, ws, ildrens, ucation, lture, and cial (thats supposed to be Social, if you didnt guess). There is no room inside the tiny case for a hard drive, recordings have to be made onto a USB device plugged into the front socket. Recordings can be started directly from the remotes record button or from a timer event that can be set manually or from the EPG.
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TEST REPORT
Appareil de mesure de signal satellite
8dtek DSm Gifted
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Mesure toutes les signaux de tlvision DVB-S, DVB-S2 et mme les anciennes retransmissions analogiques Grande surprise pour un tel petit appareil: DiSEqC est intgr et peut mme faire tourner une antenne motorise Une sortie A/V donne une excellente image sur un ordinateur portable ou un moniteur L'appareil peut rester connect en permanence grce sa sortie loopthroug pour raccorder un deuxime rcepteur Un analyseur simple de spectre avec lectures BER sont des fonctionnalits quon trouve souvent dans des appareils haut de gamme
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Appareil de mesure de signal satellite

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8d tek DSm Gi fted Very useful sm all tv me high-end featur ter with es
Quelque chose beaucoup plus quun simple satellite finder (localiseur de sat)
de 12 boutons seulement. Ca tmoigne un fonctionnement simple et, comme vous allez le constater la fin de ce rapport, cette promesse tient vraiment debout. Les indicateurs LED affichent ltat du mesureur de signal. Deux connecteurs F situs sur les cts opposs sont lentre de la tte et la sortie boucle vers un rcepteur satellite. Ils sont peu nombreux, les appareils qui sont quips dune telle sortie en boucle et parfois nous sentons vraiment le besoin de cette fonction lors des tests de produits concurrents. Un examen de plus prs montre que des deux cts de lappareil, il y a des volets recouvrant des connecteurs supplmentaires. On y trouve un port USB pour sauvegarder les paramtres du mesureur, ainsi que pour des tlchargements de mise jour du firmware. Il ya une prise de courant qui se branche soit un cble dalimentation secteur dune prise murale ou dun allume cigare de voiture - Les deux sont inclus dans le kit Et, de faon plutt inattendue, il ya une sortie A/V avec vido composite et sortie audio mono. Il possde une fonction supplmentaire - Ca peut agir comme interface srie RS-232.Tout fait inhabituel mais pas de souci - des cbles A/V et RS-232 appropris sont galement inclus. Il existe des rserves pour les autres entres/sorties (Ethernet et HDMI) sous les volets des cts opposs du DSM Gifted. Toutefois, elles ne sont pas installes dans ce modle de mesureur. Nous allons bientt publier un rapport relatif un autre modle DSM plus avanc qui est quip dun port Ethernet. Continuez lire TELEsatellite! En tous les cas, cest impressionnant de voir les nombreuses interfaces qui sont embarques dans un tout petit boitier. Linterrupteur marche/arrt mont sur le ct haut du boitier complte la liste des commandes du mesureur. Le DSM Gifted, juste aprs sa mise sous tension, vous prsente un menu principal. Ce menu se compose de 6 lments: chercher sat, DiSEqC, local sat, Spectrum, Angle et rglages. Il n y a quun seul niveau du menu donc la navigation en est assez simple. Menu, OK et les touches flches vous permettent de faire tous les rglages
Sa forme extrieure intressante attire lattention. Qui a dit que les mesureurs doivent tre ternes? Le panneau infrieure du DSM gifted est lgrement convexe ce qui donne un aspect fascinant au botier. Deux crans: un LCD graphique couleur et un affichage classique LED de 2 digits 7 segments LED Ceci est aussi quelque chose dinhabituel. Une pochette de protection trs pratique avec une bande Velcro que vous pouvez enrouler autour de votre poignet, ce qui vous permet de porter lappareil comme une montre-bracelet. Sans aucun doute, la technologie 8D illustre sur le DSM gifted de 8dtek, prouve quils sont des gens innovants. Ce que vous constatez premire vue, est un simple clavier membrane constitu
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essentiels. Occasionnellement, on utilise les boutons de fonction F1-F4. Leur fonction dpend de llment slectionn du menu et, est toujours dcrite au bas de lcran. SPCM et SAT sont les boutons raccourcis qui vous projettent directement vers laffichage du spectre des frquences et une vue des satellites locales. Trouver sat (chercher sat) est probablement llment du menu le plus important, accessible depuis le menu principal. Ici, vous pouvez dfinir: le satellite, les frquences de la tte (LNB), le transpondeur, le type de recherche. Dans le mme cran, vous obtenez les rsultats de mesure: Le niveau du signal et la qualit du signal exprims en pourcentage et le bit error rate. La lecture du pourcentage de la qualit du signal est rpte sur laffichage LED de deux chiffres. Cest une excellente ide parce que les chiffres sur lcran LCD sont assez petits et difficiles lire de loin. En rglant lassiette, on peut aussi se baser sur les graphiques barres montrant lintensit et la qualit du signal. Au bas de lcran, 3 conseils daide relatifs aux touches de fonction, sont visibles lorsque on survole cet lment du menu Le bou34
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1. menu Principale 2. Recherche du signal satellite 3. Configuration DiSEqC 4. Modification des positions utilises au niveau du menu : Local sat. 5. Visualisation des satellites disponibles dans un endroit choisi (clarke Belt) 6. Vue du spectre de frquence 7. Rglage du systme 8. Rsultat des calculs des inclinaisons de lantenne 9. Slection de l'emplacement pour la visualisation dans la ceinture de clarke 10. Les transpondeurs peuvent tre modifis, supprims ou ajouts 11. Le firmware et tous les rglages peuvent tre envoys vers la mmoire USB 12. Petite partie des LOF disponibles
ton rouge F1 est utilis pour modifier un transpondeur, le bouton F2 vert pour ajouter un nouveau transpondeur et celui F3 jaune pour supprimer le transpondeur actuel. Ceci est une fonctionnalit trs pratique, car dans les diffrentes rgions du monde, certains transpondeurs du mme satellite sont recevables. Ainsi, il est impossible de crer une liste commune de transpondeurs, par exemple, pour lEspagne et la Russie. Si quelques-uns des dix transpondeurs attribus chaque satellite dans la liste originale prpare par 8D technology ne sont pas recevables dans votre rgion, il suffit de les supprimer
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et den ajouter les autres. En outre, on peut les modifier en changeant leur frquence, taux de symbole, et la polarisation. Maintenant, nous allons commencer samuser: Comment le DSM gifted fonctionne effectivement? Nous avons commenc par mesurer la qualit du signal. Il savre, que le DSM Gifted, comme dans un rcepteur satellite classique, la valeur de la qualit ne change pas par division de 1%, mais avec un pas de 6 ou 7%. Si lon tient compte du fait que des valeurs infrieures 53% sont pratiquement en dessous du seuil de rception, on se retrouve avec 8 niveaux: 53%, 60%, 66%, 73%, 80%, 86%, 93% et 99%. Donc, pour trouver une valeur maximale idale lorsque vous tournez une assiette ou pro36
cder linclinaison dune tte dans son support, vous devez trouver les limites o la lecture descend de 6-7% et puis placer lassiette/tte entre les deux. Le DSM gifted vous permet de vrifier le BER galement. Cependant, comme avec tous les autres mesureurs galement, les lectures BER sont instables, de la mme faon que sont les transmissions numriques avec leur contenu en perptuelle volution. Mais le DSM Gifted va plus loin: On peut galement mesurer le MER. Cest lune des meilleures mesures quon peut avoir (taux derreur de modulation). Le MER est stable et peut tre mesur avec une prcision de 0,1 dB. Notre chantillon test ntait pas encore quip de lecture MER, mais 8D technology envisage damliorer le DSM Gifted avec des
mesures MER dans lune de leurs prochaines mises jour de firmware. Consulter le graphique de la figure 1 pour voir comment la lecture du pourcentage de notre chantillon a t corrle avec les rsultats du MER et de perte de marge, mesu-
res avec un appareil professionnel couteux. Dun point de vue pratique, dun installateur satellite: Les lectures de pourcentage, dans la forme sous laquelle elles sont prises en charge aujourdhui dans le DSM Gifted, nous permettent de pointer des assiettes de
Fig. 1. Les lignes de tendance "traduisent" les lectures de qualit de signal du DSm Gifted des rsultats mER et Lm. Les rsultats rels de 18 transpondeurs de satellites diffrents sont reprsents avec des marqueurs bleu et rouge.
60-90 cm vers les satellites populaires dune manire simple et avec une prcision acceptable. Nous ne conseillons pas le DSM Gifted avec lactuel logiciel pour des assiettes de 120 cm ou plus. Et si vous vous battez pour quelques dcibels afin de traiter un transpondeur faible (comme le font souvent les vrais amateurs de satellites) cet appareil peut tre utilis uniquement pour la configuration initiale. Dautre part, 8D technology est vraiment fier du nombre de frquences quils offrent avec llment du menu sat find. Voici la liste impressionnante de frquences doscillateur local (LOF) que vous pouvez slectionner dans le DSM Gifted: 5150, 5750, 5950, 9750,10000, 10050, 10450, 10600, 10700, 10750, 11250, 11300, 51505750, 5750-5150, Universal (9750-10600) et SCR (975010600). Le second lment du menu est DiSEqC. Nous tions impressionns que 8D Technology a quip le DSM Gifted avec le DiSEqC 1.0, 1.1 ainsi que 1.2 et USALS. Il existe mme une fonction de dtection automatique de DiSEqC ! Lors de notre test complet, USALS fonctionnait sans aucun problme. Nous avons fait tourner notre assiette un certain nombre de fois au cours de ce test de fonctionnement de moteur avec ce petit appareil. Cest ce que vont apprcier rellement tous les installateurs. Toutefois, lorsque la batterie a enfin t dcharge, le mesureur stait teint sans aucun avertissement. Il ny a pas dindication sur ltat de la batterie dans le menu ou ailleurs. Le fabricant a promis dajouter cette fonctionnalit dans lune des pro-
chaines mises jour du firmware. Llment Local sat du menu prsente une image vous montrant la position de chaque satellite sur la ceinture de Clarke telle que observe partir de votre emplacement. Lappareil destin au test a t prpar pour lAllemagne et sa mmoire prsentait un certain nombre de villes allemandes. Aprs avoir slectionn la ville la plus proche de votre position actuelle, vous pouvez passer dun satellite lautre grce aux boutons flchs gauche/ droite et de lire leur lvation et azimut. En cas de besoin, on peut modifier les lieux et les changer pour quils soient plus adapts vos propres besoins. Un autre lment du menu - lanalyseur de spectre - est quelque chose quon ne peut sattendre dun tel si petit mesureur comme le DSM Gifted. Malgr que ce nest pas un analyseur complet. Tout dabord, il est plutt lent. videmment, le processeur nest pas assez puissant pour cette fonction. Par consquent, vous ne pouvez pas lutiliser quand vous bougez grossirement lassiette en vu de dtecter le signal de rception dun satellite. Deuximement, il ny a quun seul intervalle. Le zoom avant sur une frquence spcifique nest pas possible. Vous ne pouvez pas cliquer sur un transpondeur slectionn sur le spectre pour lire ses paramtres. Lutilisation relle de cet affichage de spectre cest la reconnaissance rapide du satellite que vous avez en ligne de mire actuellement Pour les installateurs professionnels qui installent souvent, Il faut se rappeler de la forme de chaque spectre de satellite. Llment Angle du menu est quelque peu sem-
blable celui du local SAT, mais davantage de donnes sont disponibles. Vous slectionnez le satellite, entrez vos coordonnes et, hormis pour laltitude et lazimut correctes, vous obtenez en outre, langle dinclinaison de la tete. Ce dernier est ncessaire pour la rception des transpondeurs avec une polarisation linaire. Plus le satellite est loin de la direction du sud partir de votre emplacement, le plus dinclinaison que vous devez appliquer la tete dans son support. Le tout dernier menu est nomm systme. Ici, vous dfinissez quelques paramtres de lappareil ainsi que le lancement de la mise jour de logiciel et la sauvegarde dans une mmoire USB. En fait, nous avons effectu une mise niveau logicielle et elle sest effectue trs rapidement. Cest un moyen trs pratique de mise jour de lappareil. Si vous avez jet un coup dil aux captures
dcran jointes au prsent rapport, vous vous demandez probablement comment ces photos ont t faites. Actuellement, ceux ne sont pas des captures dcran du compteur prises par un appareil photo, mais les images captures sur la sortie A/V du mesureur. Il existe un cble avec connecteur RCA que vous pouvez raccorder un ordinateur portable dot dun tuner TV et lon obtient un grand cran de haute qualit de lappareil. Probablement ce nest pas une tache trs pratique pour des mesures effectives, mais si vous prenez des mesures lintrieur, cest tout fait une option intressante. Le DSM Gifted est un outil facile utiliser et un moyen de reprage de satellite astucieux avec plusieurs fonctionnalits exceptionnelles quon trouve habituellement dans des mesureurs trs couteux. Le firmware actuel est idal pour des installations dassiette de tailles moyennes.
Il mesure des signaux DVB-S, DVB-S2 et analogiques. compatible avec DiSEqc 1.0/1.1 et Unicable. convient pour tourner des antennes motorises (DiSEqc 1.2 et USALS). Les lectures de qualit dupliques grce un affichage LED facile lire. Trs bonne qualit dimage sur la sortie A/V. Signal de sortie prt pour le raccorder un rcepteur.
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Jacek Pawlowski TELE-satellite Test Center Poland
Les lectures de qualit du signal ne sont pas assez prcises pour les grandes assiettes et les rglages DX. Pas dindication sur ltat de la batterie (disponible dans le futur firmware) Pas de mesure de mER (disponible prochainement)
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Its interesting external design attracts attention. Who said that meters must look dull? The bottom panel of DSM Gifted is slightly convex what makes the box look intriguing. Two displays: a color graphic LCD and a classical 2-digit 7-segment LED one - this is also something unusual. A quite practical protective bag with a Velcro strip that you can put around your wrist, enables you to carry the meter like a wrist watch. Definitely, 8D Technology demonstrated with 8dtek DSM Gifted that they are innovative guys. What you can notice at first sight is a simple membrane keyboard made up of just 12 buttons. It promises simple operation and, as you will learn after reading this report, this promise is really fulfilled. LED indicators signal meter status. Two F connectors located on the opposite sides are: the LNB input and the looped-through output for a satellite receiver. Not many meters are equipped with such a looped output and sometimes we really missed this feature when testing competitor products. Closer examination reveals that on both sides of the meter there are flaps covering additional connectors. We have a USB port for backing up meters settings, as well as for loading the meter with firmware updates. There is a power supply socket that accepts either a cable from a wall socket power supply or a car lighter charger both are included in the set. And, rather unexpectedly, there is an A/V output with composite video and mono audio output. It has an additional function it can act as an RS-232 serial interface. Quite unusual, but do not worry - suitable A/V and RS-232 cables are also included. There are provisions for the other inputs/outputs (Ethernet and HDMI) under the flap on the opposite side of DSM Gifted. However, they are not installed in this meter model. We will soon publish a report covering another, more advanced, DSM model which is equipped with the Ethernet port. Keep reading
TELE-satellite! Anyway, it is impressive how many interfaces have been embedded in such a tiny box. The on/ off switch mounted on the top side of the box ends the list of meter controls. DSM Gifted, right after switching it on, takes you to the Main menu. The menu consists of 6 items: Sat Find, DiSEqC, Local Sat, Spectrum, Angle and Settings. There is only one menu level so the navigation is pretty simple. Menu, OK and the arrow buttons let you do all the main set-
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tings. Occasionally, you use function buttons F1-F4. Their function depends on the selected menu items and is always described at the bottom of the screen. SPCM and SAT are the shortcut buttons that take you directly to the frequency spectrum view and local satellites view Sat Find is probably the most important menu item accessible from the main menu. Here, you can set: the satellite, LNB frequencies, transponder, scan type. In the same screen, you get the measurement results: signal level and signal quality expressed in percentages and bit error rate. The signal quality percentage reading is repeated on the two digit LED display. This is a great idea because the figures on the LCD screen are rather small and hard to read from a distance. When turning the dish, you can also refer to the bar graphs showing signal strength and quality. At the bottom of the screen, there are 3 help tips on what the function buttons can do when in this menu item. The red F1 button is used to edit a transponder, the green F2 button to add new transponder
and the yellow F3 to delete the present transponder. This is a quite useful feature because in different regions of the world various transponders of the same satellite are receivable. So, it is impossible to create a common list of transponders for, say, Spain and Russia. If some of the ten transponders assigned to every satellite in the original list prepared by 8D Technology are not receivable in your area, simply delete them and add the other ones. Alternatively, edit them by changing their frequency, symbol rate and polarization. Now lets start the fun: how does DSM Gifted perform in real life? We started with measuring signal quality. It turns out, that DSM Gifted, like in a typical satellite receiver, the quality result does not change in 1 % steps but with 6 or 7 % step. If we take into account that the results lower than 53% are practically below the reception threshold, we are left with 8 levels: 53%, 60%, 66%, 73%, 80%, 86%, 93% and 99%. So to find an ideal maximum when turning a dish or skewing an LNB in its holder, you have to find the limits where the reading drops
down by 6-7% and then set the dish/LNB somewhere in between. DSM Gifted allows you as well to check BER. However, like with all other meters too, the BER readings are unstable, which is how it is with digital transmissions and their ever changing contents. But DSM Gifted goes one step further: you can also measure MER. This is the best measurement one can have (modulation error ratio). MER is stable and can be measured with 0.1 dB resolution. Our test sample was not yet equipped with MER readings, but 8D Technology are planning to enhance DSM Gifted with MER measurements in one of their next firmware upgrades. See the chart in Figure 1 to see how the percentage reading of our test sample was correlated with MER and Loss Margin results measured with an expensive professional meter. From the practical point of view of a satellite installer: the percentage readings, in the form they are implemented now in DSM Gifted, enable you to direct 60-90 cm dishes for popular satellites in a simple way and with acceptable preci-
sion. We would not recommend DSM Gifted with the present firmware for dishes 120 cm or larger. And if you are fighting for a split decibel in order to work a weak transponder (like true satellite enthusiasts often do) this meter can only be used for the initial setup. On the other hand, 8D Technology can really be proud of the number of frequencies they offer in the Sat Find menu item. Here is the impressive list of local oscillator frequencies (LOFs) you can select in DSM Gifted: 5150, 5750, 5950, 9750, 10000, 10050, 10450, 10600, 10700, 10750, 11250, 11300, 51505750, 5750-5150, Universal (9750-10600) and SCR (9750-10600). The second menu item is DiSEqC. We were impressed that 8D Technology equipped DSM Gifted with DiSEqC 1.0, 1.1 as well as 1.2 and USALS. There is even DiSEqC auto detection function! During our whole test, USALS was operating without any problems. We turned our dish quite a number of times during this test powering the motor from this tiny meter. Thats what every installer will really appreciate.

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Deux tuners TVHD distincts
La S480 avec 2 x DVB-S2 de TeVii
Est livr avec un logiciel parfaitement adapt pour la tlvision et les donnes S'insre correctement avec le matriel PC Transforme un PC en un TVHD PVR entirement fonctionnel Plug & Play pour Windows et des pilotes pour Linux
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lun de lautre. On pourra considrer actuellement celle-ci comme sil y avait deux cartes distincts DVBS/S2 installes dans lordinateur, sauf que lensemble des composants des deux cartes, est dans une seule carte afin quelle occupe uniquement un slot dans le PC. En plus de la carte elle-mme, le kit est livr galement avec un guide dinstallation en Anglais et en Allemand, un CD avec les pilotes et logiciels ainsi quune tlcommande et un rcepteur infrarouge. Un manuel dutilisation dtaill est disponible sur le CD en format PDF. Le guide dinstallation ny va malheureusement sur auc un La S480 est une carte dextension PCI Express (PCI-e) pour un PC. Lutilisation du slot PCI-e est absolument ncessaire parce que le taux de transfert de donnes dun emplacement PCI standard pourrait ne pas tre assez bon pour la rception dun conten u de tlvision de haute dfinition. Contrairement au modle S470 de TeVii que nous avons test dans ldition de Tl-satellite du 08 - 09/2009, la S480 fonctionne avec deux tuners DVB-S/S2 entirement fonctionnels qui peuvent tre utiliss les deux ensembles en mme temps, indpendamment dtail de la S480. Dautre part, nous avons aim la tlcommande; Ca permet de transformer lordinateur en un rcepteur TV DVBS/ S2 entirement oprationnel. Elle se tient confortablement dans votre main, elle est bien tiquete et, est dote de boutons qui sont facilement accessibles et manipulables aisment avec vos doigts. LInstallation de la carte S480 de TeVii stait droule sans aucune difficult. La carte dispose dj dun volet de protection de la fente, bien quune version plus petite est fournie pour une utilisation dans des botiers trs troits de PC et facilement interchangeable en cas de besoin. Puisque la carte TeVii avec ses deux tuners doit galement fournir lalimentation pour deux ttes (LNB) et les composants intgres sur la carte accentueront le besoin
en nergie, il sera judicieux de brancher une alimentation correspondante de lalimentation du PC la carte TeVii. Cela garantira que la carte aura assez de puissance disponible pour fonctionner correctement; Le bus PCI-e, tout seul nest pas en mesure de satisfaire cette demande de puissance. Aprs avoir install la carte, les deux entres tuner sont rapidement relies au systme de satellite et le rcepteur infrarouge est insr la prise approprie de la carte. La S480 est prte fonctionner. Bien que la carte S480 de TeVii est mieux adapte pour la rception de la TVHD, aucune exigence particulire au pralable nest requis du PC. Les exigences pour une rception TVHD sans interfrences selon le constructeur: Un processeur de 2,4 GHz, une carte graphique avec 128 Mo de RAM ainsi que 1 Go de mmoire. Si vous vous contentez
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1. Liste des chaines trie par transpondeur 2. Menu de configuration 3. Modification des caractristiques de canal 4. Affichage de l'EPG en bas de la fentre de la chaine 5. Liste des chaines trie par ID de rseau 6. Les diverses capacits de contrle du logiciel myTeVii. Note: le lien du Plug-Ins n'est pas activ parce que dans notre configuration de test nous n'avions install aucun plug-ins 7. Les diffrents modes d'affichage du logiciel MyTeVii 8. Balayage d'un transpondeur dans Windows media center 9. Balayage de chaines 10. De nouveaux canaux ont t trouvs 11. Menu de configuration 12. La liste prprogramme des satellites 13. Rglage de la tte (LNB) 14. Le Windows media center est prt recevoir par l'intermdiaire de la TeVii S480 15. et 16. TRT HD sur TURKSAT 42 Est
de la TVSD, vous pouvez utiliser un PC de 2 GHz et seulement 256 Mo de RAM. Dans les deux cas cependant, la carte graphique qui est utilise, doit prendre en charge DirectX version 9.0c ou suprieur. Bien sr, quand il sagit de matriel que vous finissez par utiliser, le plus rcent et plus performant matriel, reste le meilleur. Le fabricant a inclus des drivers de 32-bit et 64-bit pour toutes les versions de MS Windows (Windows XP, Vista et Windows 7) sur le CD; il ya aussi des drivers pour Linux. Le CD contient
galement le logiciel MyTeVii qui est le contrle principal pour toutes les fonctions de cartes ainsi que le logiciel TeViiData pour la rception de lInternet par satellite. Lensemble du kit est complt par une version de dmonstration du bien connu ProgDVB . Linstallation des pilotes et le logiciel MyTeVii sest droule sans difficult et sest effectue entirement en automatique. Cest l ! Lavantage du Plug & Play ; vous navez mme pas besoin de redmarrer le PC aprs linstallation des pilotes. Lassis-
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de nombreux paramtres de rglages et de rception peuvent tre effectus pour chaque entre distincte du tuner et indpendamment lune de lautre, y compris toutes les tapes ncessaires pour le paramtrage de LNB1 et LNB2. Aprs le lancement pour la premire fois, du software MyTeVii, une liste de chane vide est affiche. Bien en49
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nes ont t effectivement presque tous mis jour, afin que les plus rcentes chanes TVHD qui ont t lances, sont facilement trouve. Il y avait aussi plein de frquences LOF prprogrammes disponibles pour couvrir la bande C et la bande Ku, cependant on pourrait galement les personnaliser individuellement (y compris le seuil de commutation entre les bandes de frquences suprieures et infrieures) selon vos besoins spcifiques. Le logiciel MyTeVii fonctionne galement trs bien avec tous les protocoles communs de DiSEqC vous permettant ainsi dutiliser la carte avec seulement une tte (LNB) et avec le systme DiSEqC 1.0 jusqu quatre ttes (LNB) ainsi que dun systme plus compliqu DiSEqC1.1 jusqu 16 ttes (LNB). Si
vous utilisez un moteur DiSEqC, les positions enregistres dans la mmoire peuvent tre individuellement accessibles et rgles avec des donnes satellites appropries. Notre impression gnrale positive a t appuye par la capacit dutiliser galement cette carte avec des applications SCR. La possibilit de modifier les donnes satellites et de transpondeurs directement dans le menu de balayage des chaines est particulirement pratique. Vous pouvez ajouter de nouveaux transpondeurs ou satellites ou modifier les donnes existantes. Les fonctions de balayage des canaux sont aussi logiques, bien rflchies et faciles utiliser. Par exemple, vous pouvez scanner un seul transpondeur, plusieurs ou lensemble des transpondeurs du satellite. Le FEC est reconnu par les deux tuners automatiquement. Nous avons t trs impressionns par les deux tuners
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automatique de chaine. Au cours de notre test, la carte SCPC a pu recevoir un transpondeur de 2,0 Ms/sec sur TURKSAT 42 sans aucun problme. La carte S480 de TeVii a galement montr ses capacits lors dune recherche automatique des chanes des satellites Hotbird 13 Est; cette tache a t termine en un peu plus de six minutes pendant lesquelles, grce aux transpondeurs mis jour, presque chaque canal recevable a t identifi. Pour complter le test du tuner, nous devions naturellement vrifier le niveau de performance des tuners dans le traitement des signaux plus faibles.
Pour cela, nous avons tourn notre antenne vers EXPRESS AM1 40 Est, o non seulement les transpondeurs individuels sur ce satellite sont dj difficiles recevoir avec une parabole de 120cm, mais ce satellite se trouve dans une orbite incline rendant une rception stable sur des priodes plus longues encore plus difficile. Le S480 de TeVii a matris cette tche et nous a fourni une bonne rception. Puisque la carte S480 est compatible avec DVB-S/S2, ca peut dmoduler QPSK et BPSK en DVB-S et QPSK et 8PSK en DVB-S2. Une fois que la liste des canaux est complte avec des en-
tres, il serait judicieux de jeter un coup dil rapide nouveau sur la large gamme des rglages initiaux. Tout paramtre imaginable peut tre rgl selon les exigences de lutilisateur et cest l o la S480 comme une carte dextension PC se distingue par rapport un dmodulateur: si un matriel plus ancien est utilis ou si le processeur nest pas le plus rapide du monde, la requte au processeur ou la carte graphique peut tre retourne - Par exemple, la fonction dcalage de temps (Time Shift) peut tre dsactive. Les raccourcis du clavier peuvent tre aussi configurs pour toutes les fonctions possibles. Les Codecs pour laudio, vido et HD sont slectionnables individuellement. Un codec chacun, est utilis pour le traitement du contenu audio et vido, de sorte que le choix du codec ai
une influence directe sur laffichage de limage par le biais de la carte. Si, par exemple, vous utilisez une carte graphique avec un support matriel pour la rception TVHD, vous pouvez avoir une faible demande sur le processeur en utilisant le codec recommand par le fabricant de la carte graphique au lieu du codec standard du logiciel MyTeVii. La S480 possde toutes les capacits de rglages utiles cet effet. La fentre principale du logiciel MyTeVii est bien conue et organise. Alors que le ct droit de la fentre est rserv pour la liste des canaux, tout le ct gauche de la fentre est ddi laffichage du signal de tlvision. Au bord infrieur de la fentre, le logiciel regroupe toutes les informations du canal slectionn (bien sur, aussi longtemps que ces donnes soient mises disposition). La liste des chanes
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proprement dite, peut tre trie et groupe en plusieurs faons de sorte que, par exemple, les canaux peuvent tre groups par paquet, transpondeur ou satellite. Naturellement les listes de favoris peuvent tre charges avec toutes vos chanes prfres. Les canaux indsirables dans la liste peuvent tre effacs en un simple clic de souris tandis que les chanes pour adultes peuvent tre bloques du regard des enfants avec un code PIN. Spcialement pratique cest que toutes ces taches seffectuent dans la fentre principale du logiciel MyTeVii; Tous les changements sont donc immdiatement visibles. LEPG TeVii a t galement conu avec une clart lesprit; les programmes pour les sept prochains jours, y compris les informations dtailles de programmation sont prsentes dune manire organise, et encore une fois, ceci reste valable aussi longtemps que ces donnes sont mises disposition par le fournisseur. Naturellement, les entres de programmation peuvent tre saisies directement partir de lEPG et comme que vous vous attendiez dun produit top de ce genre, le logiciel peut faire sortir
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un PC du mode de veille afin denregistrer un programme. La mme chose est vraie en vice versa: Lors du rglage des vnements de programmation, lutilisateur peut choisir de garder le PC en marche ou le placer en mode veille la fin de lenregistrement. De cette manire, le PC na pas besoin de rester sous tension toute la journe juste pour enregistrer un seul programme. Le temps de commutation de la S480, entre deux canaux sur des transpondeurs diffrents est de 2-3 secondes; pour une solution PC cest en fait assez rapide. Grace aux deux tuners, une seconde chaine peut tre regarde dans une deuxime fentre alors quun enregistrement se droule dans la premire fentre. Internet via la rception satellite est galement possible sur un tuner tandis que lautre est utilis pour la rception TV. Pendant la lecture, vous pouvez basculer entre les diffrentes pistes audio ainsi quaccder aux soustitres disponibles avec un simple clic de souris. La TVHD peut tre affiche une rsolution allant jusqu 1080i; Les enregistrements peuvent tre raliss en MPEG, ainsi quen format TS (transpondeur stream) et peuvent tre donc, en
1. Dubai Sports HD via ProgDVB 2. Balayage de transpondeur sur BADR 26 Est avec ProgDVB
outre manipuls par lensemble des diffrents programmes ddition comme DVR Studio et converti en DVD. LOSD du logiciel MyTeVii peut communiquer avec lutilisateur en Anglais, Franais, Allemand, Arabe, Chinois, Finlandais, Italien, Polonais, Russe, Espagnol et Sudois. Loption skin sest avre trs intressante galement. Elle peut tre utilise pour modifier lapparence du logiciel pour correspondre au got de lutilisateur avec juste quelques clics de souris. Le kit est livr avec deux skin, mais dautres peuvent tre tlchargs partir dInternet. Grace la tlcommande incluse, le logiciel MyTeVii peut tre command depuis le confort de votre canap; des informations telles que lEPG sont rattaches laffichage
OSD en format plein cran, au dessus de lactuel programme. De cette faon, la carte TeVii en liaison avec un PC se transforme facilement en cran de tlvision et un dmodulateur galement. La TeVii S480 est assez bonne en termes de matriel, mais une chose est claire: si les deux tuners sont oprationnels particulirement en mode TVHD, la demande au processeur augmente. Donc, pour nos tests, nous avons utilis un PC dot dun processeur Intel Core 2 Duo avec 2 Go de mmoire et une carte graphique ATI relativement neuve en vue de mesurer la charge du processeur. Les valeurs que nous avons mesures sont, pour la plupart infrieures ceux que nous nous attendions voir avec une carte PC double
tuner en mode TVHD. Ce nest quau moment o nous avons accd deux canaux TVHD en mme temps que notre systme fut pouss aux limites. Il tait devenu impossible de faire toute autre tache intressante avec le PC. Nous devons souligner cependant que laffichage des chanes en haute dfinition tait constant, sans aucune interfrence. La leon est claire ici: La performance de la TeVii S480 (en fait, pour toutes les cartes PC) dpend fortement de la prise en charge de lacclration matrielle du dcodage des vidos par la carte graphique du PC et bien sr, si lacclration est active. En outre la rsolution effective du canal TVHD doit tre considre (Actuellement, seulement quelques chanes mettent la pleine 1920x1080p) et enfin de la compression vido et son taux. Dans un autre test avec un Intel Core 2 2,6 GHz, o le hardware avec carte vido acclre et prise en charge du dcodage, le chargement a t 2-5% sur un niveau de signal TVHD maximal avec 1920x1080p. En fin de compte, tout se rsume au matriel que vous utilisez dans votre PC. La TeVii S480 na pas de slots CI ou de lecteur de carte intgr. Vous pourriez penser que cela rend impossible toute rception de chanes cryptes. Mais il ya une solution de secours vers des mulateurs et le Cardsharing. Grce linterface de plug-in intgre, le software ncessaire pour la rception de la tlvision page peut tre activ. Lors de nos tests, la TeVii S480 a trs bien fonctionn mme si le second tuner a caus quelques problmes et ne pouvait tre accd en mme temps.Les choses semblaient meilleures avec le Windows Media Center. Il est inclus depuis le systme
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dexploitation Windows Vista et la carte TeVii en est entirement compatible avec. Le Windows Media Center peut communiquer pleinement avec la TeVii S480i mais ne possde pas dassez nombreuses options de rglages que prsente le software MyTeVii. Au cours de nos tests, il a fonctionn comme prvu. Il a effectu un balayage des canaux sur plus de 11 minutes et na trouv quune fraction seulement de canaux par rapport au software MyTeVii. videmment, cela est une solution universelle et diffremment MyTeVii, il na pas t conu uniquement pour la S480. Nous avons t ravis de constater que le Windows Media Center tait en mesure deffectuer lenregistrement et la lecture simultanment de deux canaux (mme HD) via les deux tuners. A la diffrence de MyTeVii cependant, nous navons pas t en mesure dafficher deux chanes de haute dfinition en mme temps mais, tout de mme, le second tuner tait prt pour un enregistrement. En outre, la tlcommande de TeVii est compatible avec le Windows Media Center ce qui signifie naturellement que vous pouvez toujours tout contrler partir de votre confortable canap. En plus de ProgDVB et de Windows Media Center, il existe dautres programmes qui peuvent tre utiliss avec la S480 pour la rception TV. Notre tableau indique les liens vers ces programmes. Aprs la rception de la tlvision, nous avons aussi voulu vrifier la rception Internet. TeVii a inclus le logiciel ncessaire pour la S480: TeViiData Tout comme MyTeVii, TeViiData est fourni galement avec une liste trs rcente de fournisseurs dinternet par satellite. Dans la plupart des cas, tout ce que vous avez faire est de s-
lectionner une entre dans la liste et, en supposant que vous avez dj un lien avec ce prestataire, vous pouvez dmarrer sans attendre. Lors de nos tests, le logiciel TeViiData a fonctionn sans aucun problme et nous a fourni laccs Internet via EUTELSAT W3A 7 Est. La carte PCI-e S480 de TeVii a fait ses preuves dans de nombreuses mthodes au cours de nos tests: Cest lune des premires cartes PC utiliser deux tuners entirement fonctionnels qui peuvent tre utiliss simultanment avec le logiciel propre TeVii. Grace la conception rcente de la carte, trs peu de chaleur
se dgage; cela rendra heureux les utilisateurs puisque le systme de ventilation de lordinateur naura pas besoin de travailler haute capacit et donc fera moins de bruit. Le logiciel MyTeVii a prouv avec succs ses performances lors de nos tests, bien que dautres logiciels comme ProgDVB ou Windows Media Center puissent tre utilises en cas de besoin. La qualit de lecture audio et vido tait exceptionnelle. Il faut aussi mentionner que, pour les DXers le contenu de MPEG 4:2:2 peut galement tre affiche avec le codec correspondant de Elecard.
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manufacturer Email sales Email support model Function channel memory Satellites Symbol rates ScPc compatible USALS DiSEqc EPG c/KU band compatible HDTV support Input frequency Input terminal modulations TeVii Technology Ltd. Taiwan patricia@tevii.com peterson@tevii.com S480 PCI-e card for TV & Radio reception on the PC in SDTV and HDTV with two separate Tuners unlimied 178 preprogrammed - added by user: unlimited 2-45 Ms/s yes (tested >2 Ms/s) yes 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 yes yes yes (up to 1080i in MPEG-4 AVC/ H.264) 950-2150 MHz F-type 75 Ohm DVB-S: QPSK, BPSK DVB-S2: QPSK, 8PSK
Table: Alternative Software for the TeVii S480 ProgDVB DVBViewer DVBDream WatchTVPro www.progdvb.com www.dvbviewer.com www.dvbdream.org www.watchtvpro-experience.de
Twin Tuner Pc card

The S480 is a PCI Express (PCI-e) expansion card for a PC. The use of the PCI-e slot is absolutely necessary because the data transfer rate of a standard PCI slot might not be good enough for the reception of high resolution TV content. Contrary to the TeVii S470 model that we tested in the 08-09/2009 issue of TELEsatellite, the S480 operates with two fully functional DVB-S/S2 tuners that can both be used at the same time independently from each other. You could actually look at it as if there were two separate DVB-S/ S2 cards installed in the PC except that the entire hardware for both cards is on one circuit board so that only one slot is occupied in the PC. In addition to the card itself, the package also comes with an installation guide in English and German, a CD with drivers and software as well as a remote control and an infrared receiver. A detailed user manual is available on the CD in PDF format. The installation guide unfortunately doesnt go into any details on the S480. On the other hand, we liked the remote control; it helps to convert the PC into a fully functional DVB-S/S2 TV receiver. It sits comfortably in your hand, is properly labeled and comes with buttons that are easy to reach and easy on your fingers. Installing the TeVii S480 card was handled without any problems. The card already has a slot cover installed on it although a smaller version is provided for use with narrower PC housings and can easily be swapped out if necessary. Since the TeVii card with its two tuners must also supply power for two LNBs and the integrated chips on the card will be putting a demand on energy needs, it would make sense to connect a matching output from the PC power supply to the TeVii card. This will guarantee that the card will have enough power available to it to do its job; the PCI-e bus alone is not able to handle these power demands. After installing the card, the two tuner inputs are quickly connected to the satellite system and the infrared receiver is plugged into the appropriate jack on the card. The S480 is ready to go. Although the TeVii S480
card is best suited for HDTV reception, it doesnt place any special demands on the PC itself. The requirements for interference-free HDTV reception according to the manufacturer: a 2.4 GHz CPU, a graphics card with 128MB RAM as well as 1GB of memory. If youll only be watching SDTV, you can use a PC with a 2 GHz PC and only 256MB RAM. In either case though, the graphics card that is used must support DirectX version 9.0C or higher. Of course, when it comes to the hardware you end up using, the newer and
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more capable the hardware, the better. The manufacturer included 32-bit and 64-bit drivers for all MS Windows versions (Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7) on the CD; there are also drivers for Linux. The CD also contains the MyTeVii software which is the control central for all of the cards functions as well as TeViiData software for reception of Internet via Satellite. The entire package is rounded off with a demo version of the well-known ProgDVB. The installation of the drivers and the MyTeVii software occurred problem-free and ran fully automatically. Thats what Plug&Play is all about; you dont even have to restart the PC after installing the drivers. The installation assistant presents two separate MyTeVii icons on the PCs desktop with one labeled LNB1 and the other LNB2. Nope, its not a software bug. Instead, TeVii has made it possible to open two MyTeVii windows at the same time and fully independent of each other. And of course it stands to reason that numerous settings and reception parameters can be set up for each tuner input separate and independent of each other including all the necessary settings steps for LNB1 and LNB2.
After starting the MyTeVii software for the first time, an empty channel list is displayed. Of course, this list should be filled as quickly as possible, wouldnt you say? The manufacturer included a preprogrammed list of 178 European, Asian and American satellites along with corresponding transponder data. It was nice to see that the data was actually quite up to date so that the most recently started HDTV channels could easily be found. There were also plenty of preprogrammed LOF frequencies available to cover the C-band and Ku-band but they could also be individually customized (including the switching point for the upper and lower frequency bands) to your specific requirements. The MyTeVii software also plays very nicely with all of the common DiSEqC protocols thus letting you use the card with just a single LNB, with a DiSEqC 1.0 system with up to four LNBs as well as a more complicated DiSEqC1.1 system with up to 16 LNBs. If youre using a DiSEqC motor, the positions stored in memory can be individually accessed and set up with appropriate satellite entries. Our overall positive impression was strengthened by the ability to also use this card with SCR ap-
plications. The ability to edit satellite and transponder data directly in the Channel Scan menu is especially practical. You can add new transponders or satellites or modify existing data. The channel scan functions are also logical, well thought out and easy to use. For example, you can scan a single transponder from a satellite, multiple transponders or all of the transponder entries. The FEC is recognized by both tuners automatically. We were very impressed with the two TeVii tuners; not only do they require very little energy and thereby radiate very little heat, but they also operate on the socalled LNB Off feature. This feature turns off power to the LNB as long as the tuner on the card is not accessed. In the end the two tuners handled all of the tasks effortlessly including SCPC reception and automatic channel scans. In our SCPC test the card was able to process a 2.0 Ms/sec transponder on TURKSAT at 42 east without any problems. The TeVii S480 card also showed its capabilities during an automatic channel scan of the HOTBIRD satellites at 13 east; this job was completed in just a little over six minutes whereby, thanks to the up-to-date transponders, nearly eve-
ry receivable channel was identified. To complete the tuner test, we naturally had to check how well the tuners performed with weaker signals. For this we turned our antenna to EXPRESS AM1 at 40 east where not only are the individual transponders on this satellite already difficult to receive with a 120cm dish but this satellite finds itself in an inclined orbit making stable reception over longer time periods even more difficult. The TeVii S480 mastered this task and provided us with good reception. Since the S480 card is DVB-S/S2 compatible, it can demodulate QPSK and BPSK in DVB-S and QPSK and 8PSK in DVB-S2. Once the channel list is filled with entries it would not be a bad idea to have a quick look again at the vast array of basic settings. Every imaginable parameter can be set to the users requirements and this is where the S480 as a PC expansion card stands out compared to a set top box: if older hardware is being used or if the processor isnt the fastest in the world, the demand on the processor or graphics card can be turned back for example, the Time Shift function can be turned off.

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Analyseur de signal combo pour DVB-S et TNT
Le Satcatcher Digipro ST combo

1 Go de mmoire pour des donnes de 300.000 satellites et transpondeurs Compatible avec la DVB-S, TNT, FM analogique et DAB Analyse prcise des instructions DiSEqC Une prise A/V avec un moniteur externe transforment l'analyseur de signal en un rcepteur
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Analyseur de signal combo pour DVB-S et TNT
Analyseur avec une mmoire importante

La disponibilit danalyseurs de signaux abordables a considrablement augment au cours de ces dernires annes. Il y a une option qui est particulirement importante pour les utilisateurs, mais jusqu prsent, na pas t suivi vraiment de prs par les fabricants: Et qui concerne une base de donnes de satellite et de transpondeurs, importante et mise jour rgulirement. Et simplement cause dune liste presque interminable de chaines de tlvision, de radios et des services Internet disponibles par satellite, antenne ou cble, le dsir davoir toutes ces information est tout fait comprhensible. Il est clair quil ne suffit plus un installateur dantenne en Europe de se concentrer uniquement sur les trop bien connus satellites ASTRA 19,2 Est et Hotbird 13 Est. La mme chose peut sappliquer un installateur en Thalande; Il naurait aucune chance de continuer travailler sil limite son exprience seulement THAICOM bird de 78,5 Est. Lanalyseur de signaux que nous prsentons ici, le SatCatcher Digipro ST Combo, nest pas destin
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seulement des utilisateurs finaux privs ambitieux, mais aussi et surtout des professionnels. Et si vous voulez avoir une chance de russir sur le march actuel, vous devez tre en mesure de ragir rapidement et prcisment aux souhaits de votre client. Ce qui est important avec cela, cest la ncessit dtre capable daligner tout satellite recevable aussi efficacement que possible partir de lendroit dinstallation. Pour que linstallateur soit en mesure de faire cela, il doit tre quip de quelques outils de base et cest le point crucial: A quoi sert un bon et couteux analyseur de signal un installateur si un client exige de lui, un ajout dun autre satellite son systme de rception, mais lanalyseur de signal en question na pas les donnes actuelles des transpondeurs stockes en mmoire permettant linstallateur daligner lantenne? La socit britannique SatCatcher nous a montr plus dune fois dans le pass que ses produits sont jour technologiquement et ont plein dides innovatrices. Avec le Combo Digipro ST, cela reste valable. Lorsque compar aux modles prcdents, pas tellement na chang de lextrieur. 240 x 105 x 75mm et pesant seulement 1,4 kg avec batterie et housse de protection, le Digipro ST Combo se tient trs confortablement dans votre main. Son poids est rparti uniformment de sorte quil ne peut pas basculer dun ct. Lcran de 3,5 pouces avec sa rsolution de 128x64 est trs facile lire et, est suffisamment grand pour afficher de faon optimale toutes les informations ncessaires. La batterie intgre rechargeable de 4000 mAh de VARTA, fournit au Digipro ST Combo une nergie de quatre heures. Un cycle complet de recharge prend presque la mme dure. Le fabricant a ajout un assortiment daccessoires qui inclus lalimentation de 9,6 V ainsi quun dispositif de recharge de voiture afin que linstallateur puisse recharger lanalyseur en cours de route vers le prochain client. Un protge rsistant lhumidit est galement fourni pour viter lanalyseur toute contamination la salet et aux dtritus. Ltui de transport inclus, vous permet de travailler librement avec les deux mains. Un volet paresoleil permet galement de lire plus facilement lcran LCD en plein soleil. Pour couronner le tout, le Digipro ST Combo est livr avec un cble USB pour connexion un PC et un cble A/V pour une connexion dentre / sortie de la vido. Le manuel dutilisation nest pas sous forme imprime; cest plutt en format PDF et se trouve dans le CD inclus. Le Digipro ST Combo et tous ses accessoires peuvent tre rangs dans un robuste attachcase en aluminium pour un transport ais. Ca servirait aussi protger le contenu en cas de chute du boitier. Vous ne pouvez pas manquer de remarquer lcran LCD couleur de 3,5-pouces sur le panneau frontal. Quatre touches de fonction sont disposes sous lcran; Le marquage de ces boutons est affich vers le bas de lcran. Juste la droite, se trouvent quatre boutons de plus, en forme dune croix qui sont utiliss pour naviguer dans les menus. En dessous, cest un clavier numrique compos de 12 touches ainsi que cinq autres boutons de fonction lextrme droite. Tous les boutons sont marqus clairement ce qui rend trs facile lutilisation du Digipro ST Combo. Sur la partie suprieur de lanalyseur, le fabricant a plac une entre tuner combine pour rception satellite et terrestre ainsi quune connexion supplmentaire pour les tests. La fiche dentre/sortie pour les signaux audio/vido est galement de ce cot l. Le Digipro SatCatcher qui nous a t envoy pour le test est destin aux signaux satellite et terrestres (ST). Il ya aussi une version SC disponible pour les signaux satellite et le cble. Linterface USB et lentre dalimentation se trouvent sur le cot bas de lanalyseur. Ce nouveau produit de SatCatcher a t fabriqu avec une qualit lesprit et pour tre honnte, nous navons pas pens den trouver quelque chose moins que a, de cette socit. Mme la batterie rechargeable qui tait, dans les versions prcdentes, installe dfinitivement dans lunit et ne pouvait tre retire par lutilisateur final, est maintenant lintrieur dans son propre compartiment et peut tre remplace par lutilisateur final. Toutes les units livres aprs le 1 avril 2011 incluent cette nouveaut. SatCatcher a rendu lunit encore plus polyvalente pour ces installateurs actifs qui ne sont pas verss uniquement sur les installations de tlvision, mais aussi sur les installations de scurit aka en surveillance vido: le plus rcent SatCatcher, non seulement capte les signaux DVB-S et TNT, mais est galement livr avec une entre vido pour utilisation avec des camras standard. Sat-Catcher a mme ajout une sortie 12V active au port dentre IF permettant aux installateurs dalimenter une camra galement lors de linstallation. cette fin, les units livres rcemment comprennent maintenant un cble type F prise dalimentation (Notre chantillon test ntait pas encore quip de cette option).Comme mentionn prcdemment, il est absolument essentiel pour linstallateur professionnel davoir en permanence sa porte, les donnes satellite et des
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transpondeurs jour. Mme un utilisateur final serait ravi davoir ces donnes facilement accessibles sur son analyseur de signal. Avant dexaminer les dtails techniques de mesure du signal du Digipro ST Combo, nous voulons vous prsenter deux des options les plus importantes de cet analyseur. La premire serait sa mmoire cache de 1 Go suivie dune fonction pour traiter et afficher les donnes NIT (table dinformations sur rseau).La mmoire cache de 1 Go est le rsultat direct dune tude globale bien rflchie de Sat-Catcher en vue daboutir une manire trs facile de rassembler toutes les donnes satellites et de transpondeurs du monde entier disponible sur lanalyseur de signal. Pour cela, il tait ncessaire dintgrer deux types de mmoire: une mmoire active et une mmoire principale. La mmoire principale est de 1 Go en taille
et peut tre charge avec les donnes directement partir dun PC. Il existe un espace pour environ 300.000 entres de satellites et transpondeurs. Ds que la connexion USB est tablie entre lanalyseur et un PC, lanalyseur est reconnu par MS Windows comme tant un priphrique de stockage externe amovible et donc na pas besoin de pilotes ou de logiciel spcifique. Naturellement, lutilisateur aurait besoin dune mise jour du fichier en format ASD qui est fourni soit directement du fabricant ou dun distributeur agr. Pour mettre jour les donnes satellite et transpondeurs, vous aurez tout simplement besoin de tlcharger le dernier fichier ASD dInternet et le copier sur le priphrique de stockage amovible externe. Les ingnieurs de SatCatcher ont rapidement reconnu que ce serait une grave erreur de remplacer simplement
la base de donnes entire dans lanalyseur; sans aucun doute, il ya des utilisateurs finaux qui sauvegardaient leurs propres donnes dans lanalyseur - Ces donnes seraient perdues si toute la base de donnes a t remplace (crase). Pour viter cela, les ingnieurs ont abouti une solution simple mais ingnieuse: Le menu principal de lanalyseur possde une entre qui vous permet de transfrer des donnes personnelles (satellite, transpondeur ou fournisseur) partir de sa mmoire principale vers sa mmoire active de sorte quelles soient disponibles pour une utilisation par lanalyseur de signal. Alors que la mmoire principale contient tous les satellites du monde entier et donnes des transpondeurs indpendamment du fait que lutilisateur final en a besoin ou non, le menu de travail contient uniquement les entres que lutilisateur final en
aurai rellement besoin. Cela permet non seulement un accs plus facile aux donnes qui sont ncessaires, mais a permet galement une mise jour de la base de donnes entire tout moment sans avoir se soucier dcraser des donnes personnelles. Il est galement possible de transfrer les donnes de la mmoire active de travail vers la mmoire principale de sorte quelles puissent tre transfres vers le PC pour impression ou envoyes un autre analyseur de SatCatcher. Aprs avoir mis en marche lanalyseur, laffichage sur le Digipro ST Combo prsente un menu principal avec quatre slections. Ces quatre choix identifient les quatre fonctions de base de cet analyseur: Une pour mesure du signal en mode terrestre, une autre pour mesure du signal en mode satellite, diverses DiSEqC, test dalimentation et de cblage ainsi quune slection de menu pour lentre/ sortie AV. Au bas de lcran, il y a un bouton Menu rouge qui est activ en utilisant la touche F3. En appuyant sur ce bouton, lutilisateur accde des possibilits mentionnes prcdemment pour la mise jour de la liste des chaines via un fichier ASD. En mode terrestre, lanalyseur peut traiter des signaux analogiques et numriques dans la gamme de frquences comprises entre 46 870 MHz en plusieurs faons diffrentes: Une frquence unique peut tre choisie afin que ses paramtres soient affichs. Ces paramtres comprennent le niveau du signal en dBV, la frquence de la porteuse vido, la frquence porteuse audio ainsi que le C/N en dB. Avec les signaux numriques, le MER (Modulation Error Ratio), CBER (Channel Bit Error Rate) et VBER (Bit Error Rate Viterbi) pourraient tre galement affichs. En
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plus de toutes ces valeurs numriques, lanalyseur peut afficher graphiquement galement les niveaux des signaux audio et vido sur une colonne spare. Ce mode peut tre utilis pour affiner un pointage dantenne une position voulue o elle a t grossirement aligne. A cet effet, il y a un affichage danalyseur de spectre. Il peut tre utilis pour afficher le signal entrant avec diffrentes largeurs qui comprennent en plein cran, 500, 200,100, 50, 32, 16 et 8 MHz. Lorsque nous avons test cela avec une antenne UHF, le Digipro ST Combo a ragi trs rapidement aux changements de la position de lantenne et les a affich graphiquement. Grace laffichage de lanalyseur de spectre, il est trs facile de trouver une position initiale de lantenne, aprs quoi elle peut tre affine. Si vous voulez regarder de plus prs un pic de signal, il vous suffit dappuyer
sur le bouton de la fonction Test pour lancer le Digipro ST Combo une recherche dune porteuse TNT valide ou dun signal analogique. Si vous saisissez une frquence directement ou optez pour introduire un numro de canal, une simple pression de la touche Enter affiche en dtail les paramtres de frquence. Avec les signaux TNT, vous pouvez lire le NIT et afficher toute chaine qui est identifie sur lcran de lanalyseur. Puisque lanalyseur nest pas dot dune fente CI intgre ou dun lecteur de carte, cette option fonctionne uniquement avec les signaux des chaines gratuites (FTA). Les diffrents modes de recherche sont complts par un scannage automatique des chanes qui vrifiera toutes les frquences de signaux utilisables, puis affiche les rsultats sous forme graphique. Il sagit essentiellement dune extension du
mode analyseur de spectre. Lanalyseur de signal SatCatcher peut non seulement grer les signaux TV, il peut galement fonctionner avec les signaux de radio FM et de radio DAB; Les slections correspondantes du menu sont disponibles pour ces modes. Grace tous les diffrents rglages possibles, lutilisateur peut adapter le Digipro ST Combo ses propres besoins. Il peut donc, par exemple, afficher le signal mesur en dBV, dBmV ou dBm et fixer galement un niveau minimum de traitement du signal ou programmer lanalyseur de steindre aprs un certain temps. Nous avons aim particulirement la nouvelle option de lASD installe par SatCatcher - La base de donnes prinstalle des satellites du monde entier et les entres de transpondeurs - Et lavoir adapt galement pour le mode terrestre. Bien sr, dans ce
mode, tout tourne autour des frquences dans la bande UHF et VHF, et non pas avec des satellites et leurs transpondeurs correspondants. Mais, sans aucun doute, il serait aussi pratique davoir accs une liste prprogramme de toutes les frquences et leurs utilisations correspondantes. Le plan de canaux disponible peut tre affich, activ et dit par une entre dans le menu principal. La configuration de base comprend une liste prconfigure pour la GrandeBretagne ainsi quune srie complte de frquences utilises en Europe. Si lanalyseur doit tre utilis dans dautres rgions du monde, la fonction ASD vous permet de tlcharger sans difficult, les listes actuelles sur le site Web du fabricant ou dun distributeur et qui peuvent tre ensuite transfres du PC lanalyseur. Le mode satellite de lanalyseur est principalement de mme structure que le mode terrestre. Cette opration transparente contribue rendre la tache de lutilisateur beaucoup plus facile et pour cela, ca mrite des loges. Pour tre en mesure dexploiter toutes les nombreuses options de lanalyseur, il est utile de jeter un il dans le menu des rglages et configurer quelques paramtres de base. Inclus avec cela, ce serait bien sr la position gographique actuelle. Avec cette information, le Digipro ST Combo peut calculer automatiquement lazimut et llvation pour chaque satellite slectionn ainsi que langle de polarisation et sa position avec le DiSEqC 1.3 (USALS). Ces rsultats sont affichs non seulement en nombre plein mais aussi graphiquement. Lors de nos tests, cela a fonctionn trs bien et peut tre utilis pour avoir une assez bonne ide sur la position dun satellite. De l, vous
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1. En mode satellite, il est possible de mesurer les transpondeurs individuellement, d'afficher leurs diagrammes de constellation et de calculer les valeurs d'azimut et d'lvation pour chaque entre satellite existante. 2. Ds qu'un transpondeur actif est dtect, le Digipro ST Combo affiche immdiatement tous les paramtres pertinents. 3. Lecture NIT d'un transpondeur et des informations sur les canaux disponibles. 4. Affichage d'une chane de tlvision. 5. Modification d'une entre de transpondeur. 6. Diagramme de constellation. 7. menu principal en mode satellite. 8. Toutes les entres satellites effectives stockes. 9. Diffrents rglages de base. 10. La prsentation du spectre en mode satellite. 11. Prsentation du spectre avec des incrments de 100 mHz. 12. Le Satcatcher Digipro ST combo offre quatre modes de fonctionnement. 13. La prsentation du spectre en mode terrestre. 14. Recherche d'une frquence active TNT. 15. Ds qu'un signal TNT est dtect, le Digipro ST combo mesure immdiatement tous les paramtres pertinents. 16. Lecture NIT d'une frquence TNT. 17. Recherche automatique de chaines travers toute la plage de frquences terrestres. 18. Fm radio. 19. Grace l'option de journalisation, des mesures peuvent tre enregistres dans la mmoire interne du Digipro ST combo. 20. Projets ou plans de frquences terrestres. 21. Ajout d'un nouveau satellite en mmoire en utilisant la base de donnes de l'ASD. 22. La base de donnes de l'ASD ne renferme pas seulement les entres des transpondeurs mais les informations de fournisseurs correspondantes galement. 23. Les lments de menu pour utiliser l'option ASD 24. Les lments de menu pour utiliser l'option ASD
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pouvez accder au mode analyseur de spectre pour un pointage fin dantenne. Laffichage de lanalyseur de spectre ragit trs rapidement aux changements des signaux. Il est donc trs facile de pointer une antenne et didentifier un pic de signal. Si vous voulez jeter un coup dil de plus prs sur une frquence particulire dans le spectre, ce serai une bonne ide de rduire lintervalle de la frquence sur lcran pour lequel des valeurs prprogrammes de 50, 100, 200 et 500 MHz sont disponibles, outre un balayage complet de la frquence. Les touches du curseur peuvent tre utilises pour slectionner toute frquence voulue sur lcran. Une pression sur la touche Enter montre son niveau prcis de signal et C/N (rapport porteuse-bruit). Et tout comme en mode terrestre, divers paramtres telle que la plage de frquences de lanalyseur de spectre ou la tension voulue au niveau du tuner, sont prises en charge par lintermdiaire du clavier numrique. Grace son tiquetage prcis et facile lire, ca ne prendrai pas assez longtemps pour pouvoir sen passer de cette fonctionnalit. Avec des installateurs professionnels, il est souvent ncessaire de fournir la preuve dun travail bien fait. A cet effet, la fonction Log peut tre utilise pour stocker les valeurs mesures au cours dun alignement de lantenne et qui peuvent tre ensuite mis disposition sur un PC. Vous pouvez galement prendre une capture dcran de lanalyseur de spectre et lenregistrer dans lanalyseur. Ds que lantenne a t positionne en utilisant laffichage de lanalyseur de spectre ou bien les calculs dangle du satellite recevoir, une pression dun bouton sur un pic de signal est tout ce quil faut pour faire
basculer lanalyseur en mode transpondeur o vous pouvez alors voir lintensit et la qualit du signal graphiquement, plus vous pouvez aussi voir le niveau du signal, CBER, VBER et C/N numriquement. ce stade, lantenne peut tre aligne de manire optimale au satellite souhait grce la raction prcise et rapide tout changement du niveau de signal. Si lanalyseur reconnat une frquence valide, le NIT du transpondeur peut tre lu et le signal de tlvision ou de radio peut tre visualis sur lcran. Bien sr, cela nest vrai que pour les signaux numriques. En utilisant le NIT, lanalyseur calcule la position du satellite en cours; Lors de nos tests, cette option fonctionna assez bien et surtout correctement. Les problmes surgissent seulement lorsque les fournisseurs nutilisent pas dinformations prcises NIT comme ce fut le cas lors de nos tests sur un signal feed 7 Ouest qui a abouti une valeur incorrecte de la position du satellite. Toutes ces performances de mesure de signal sont compltes par des diagrammes de constellation pour les deux modes satellite et TNT. Si un dtail dune frquence doit changer, il vous suffit dappuyer sur le bouton Edit afin que plusieurs paramtres puissent tre rapidement modifis. Outre les paramtres classiques tels que le LOF, tension de polarisation et le signal des 22 kHz, vous pouvez galement personnaliser DiSEqC 1.0 pour un maximum de quatre satellites, 1,1 pour un maximum de huit satellites ainsi que DiSEqC 1.3 (USALS) pour les systmes motoriss. Mme les solutions unicables SCR sont supportes et peuvent tre actives directement dans le menu des rglages. Globalement, le Digipro ST Combo est livr avec les donnes satellites et trans-
1. calcul de l'azimuth et de l'lvation 2. La base de donnes ASD dans le Pc: Les donnes de satellites et de transpondeurs peuvent tre ajoutes et modifies
pondeurs pour les satellites Europens de 42 Est 30 ouest. Lutilisateur peut les modifier ou les largir sur lcran de lanalyseur. Mais comment faire si vous voulez travailler avec ABS1 75 Est? Pas de souci; Cest l que la liste de lASD entre en jeu nouveau. Il vous suffit daccder au gestionnaire de lASD dans le menu. Le Digipro ST Combo vous demandera alors quel satellite vous souhaitez activer. Il nya pas de liste qui saffiche; si la liste complte des satellites du monde seront affichs, ca sera quelque peu dsorganise. Au lieu de cela, il suffit de saisir la position gographique du satellite et slectionnez lest ou louest en appuyant sur la touche + / -. Lorsque vous terminez et appuyez sur le bouton OK, lanalyseur reconnatra immdiatement que vous tes intress la position 75
Est et que cela implique le satellite ABS1. Lanalyseur affiche alors les frquences des transpondeurs disponibles ainsi que les fournisseurs correspondants qui utilisent ces frquences. Maintenant, tout ce que vous devez faire, cest de rechercher lentre dsire dans la liste et la transfrer la mmoire active en utilisant la touche F3. Vous obtenez alors un affichage dtaill des donnes et en cas de besoin, vous pouvez ajouter des commandes DiSEqC ou slectionnez un LOF correspondant pour la bande C, bande Ku, etc, aprs quoi, vous appuyez sur le bouton Enregistrer pour stocker le tout dans la mmoire de lanalyseur pour que cela puisse tre facilement rappel ultrieurement. Puisque nous avons dj le satellite ABS1 75, enregistr dans la mmoire de lanalyseur, il semblerait logique de com-
L'attach case en aluminium robuste du Digipro ST combo de Satcatcher est livr avec de nombreux articles utiles: Rangs part se trouvent le pare-soleil, un cD de logiciels, le manuel d'utilisation, Le transfo principale de recharge, le cble de connexion USB, le chargeur de voiture et cble A/V
mencer tourner lune de nos antennes vers ce satellite. ABS1 est gnralement assez difficile recevoir ici en Europe de louest. Avec laide de la calculatrice du Digipro ST Combo pour lazimut et llvation, nous avons rapidement dtermin les angles utiles pour lantenne et avons
commenc aligner vers cette direction. Grace son mode analyseur de spectre, nous avons t en mesure didentifier rapidement plusieurs pics de signal et avec laide du mode transpondeur, il tait facile de pointer lantenne avec prcision. Et la question des 64.000
$: Y a-t-il quelque chose ajouter pour amliorer le pointage dantenne? Non, mme si vous avez utilis un analyseur de signal dun autre fabricant coutant plusieurs milliers de dollars, a naurait pas contribu augmenter le niveau du signal lantenne! Le SatCatcher Digipro ST
Combo a rempli clairement sa mission! Et pendant tous ces tests, nous avons galement pu dterminer que le tuner intgr de lanalyseur tait effectivement trs sensible; il a t en mesure de traiter les signaux partir dun C/N de 3,5 dB. Lire Correctement les transpon-
deurs en est une chose; une image live de tlvision sur lcran est tout autre chose. Le Digipro ST Combo peut non seulement utiliser les donnes dun transpondeur NIT pour identifier la position du satellite, mais il peut les utiliser aussi pour afficher divers chaines de tlvision gratuite et stations de radio. Mme si lcran nest que de 3,5 pouces de diamtre, limage de tlvision est facile voir et peut donc tre utilise pour confirmer au client quil reoit effectivement les chanes quil dsire. Grace la sortie A/V sur lanalyseur, il peut tre facilement connect directement un tlviseur et transform en un rcepteur satellite ou TNT lui-mme. Cette prise A/V peut galement tre utilise pour afficher un signal vido externe sur lcran de lanalyseur de sorte, par exemple, quune antenne motorise laide dun actuateur (verin) de 36V peu tre pointe. Le signal vido du positionneur/ rcepteur peut tre ainsi affich sur lcran de lanalyseur. Grace la deuxime entre du signal sur la partie suprieure de lanalyseur, vous pouvez non seulement vrifier les signaux de la tte (LNB), mais aussi la tension de commande de polarisation du rcepteur vers la tte, le signal de contrle des 22Khz de la bande haute/basse ainsi que toute commande DiSEqC qui est mise. Cest un moyen particulirement pratique pour trouver et rparer les ventuels pannes quon peut rencontrer sur les cbles trs longs et plus complexes. Particulirement utile, ctait lanalyse des commandes DiSEqC envoyes par le rcepteur; cela a permis didentifier facilement et de corriger un problme dun multiswitch ou de rgler un problme avec le cblage. Le Digipro ST
Combo peut tre connect un PC en tant que priphrique de stockage amovible sans le recours aucun pilote spcifique. Grace au logiciel PC inclus, il est possible non seulement de calculer les angles ncessaires pour chaque satellite voulu en se basant sur un grand tableau portant de nombreux emplacements stock dans un PC (bien sr, la latitude et la longitude peuvent tre galement saisies directement), mais les donnes sur les ASD pour le mode terrestre et satellite peuvent tre galement largies et dites. Une fois que toutes les modifications ont t effectues, lutilisateur peut sauvegarder les donnes, puis les transfrer lanalyseur, par simple glisser-dposer des donnes de lanalyseur. Nous avons t trs impressionns par le SatCatcher Digipro ST Combo lors de nos tests. Grace la conception logique du software, linstallation a t du gteau. Il est livr avec un grand nombre doptions et le tout est complt avec la base de donnes de lASD. Sa fabrication de haute qualit ne laisse rien envier.
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MER: Modulation Error Ratio est un calcul derreur binaire pour les signaux numriques. Plus la valeur est leve, le moins derreur pour le signal reu. Les valeurs suprieures 25dB sont acceptables mme si de bons CBER, VBER et un C/N lev correspondants sont galement important. VbER: Viterbi Bit Error Rate est le nombre de bits errons dans un signal numrique aprs correction derreurs mathmatiques de Viterbi. Plus le nombre aprs le E est lev, le meilleur est le signal. CbER: Channel Bit Error Rate est le nombre de bits errons dans un signal numrique avant correction des erreurs mathmatiques de Viterbi. Plus le nombre aprs le E est lev, meilleur est le signal. Le CBER vous donne une ide relle de la qualit du signal bonne ou mauvaise qui est reue au niveau de la tete (LNB).
combination Signal Analyzer for DVB-S and DVB-T

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The availability of affordable signal analyzers has grown significantly over the past few years. Theres a feature that is especially critical to users but up until now it hasnt really been watched closely by manufacturers: and that is an up-to-date and extensive database of satellite and transponder data. And simply because of the nearly endless list of TV, radio and Internet services available via satellite, antenna or cable, the desire to have all of this information is completely understandable. Clearly its not enough anymore for a European antenna installer to focus only on those all too familiar ASTRA 19.2 east and HOTBIRD 13 east satellites. The same can be said for an installer in Thailand; he would have no chance to survive if he limits his expertise to just the THAICOM bird at 78.5 east. The signal analyzer that were introducing here, the SatCatcher Digipro ST Combo, is not only aimed at ambitious private end users, but also and especially at professionals. And if you want to have any chance of survival in todays market, you have to be able to quickly and precisely react to your customers wishes. Included in this is the need to be able to align to every possible receivable satellite as efficiently as possible at the installation site. In order for the installer to be able to do this he needs to be equipped with some basic tools and this is the crucial point: What use is the best and most expensive signal analyzer to an installer if a customer wants him to add another satellite to his reception system but the signal analyzer doesnt have the current transponder data stored in its memory preventing the installer from aligning the antenna? The British company SatCatcher has shown us more than once in the past that its products are up to date technologically and full of innovative ideas. With the Digipro ST Combo, that hasnt changed. When compared to previous models, not much has changed on the outside. At 240 x 105 x 75mm and weighing just 1.4kg including battery and protective cover, the Digipro ST Combo sits quite comfortably in your hand. Its weight is evenly distributed so that it doesnt want to tip over to
one side. The 3.5 inch display with its 128x64 resolution is very easy to read and is large enough to optimally display all the necessary information. The integrated 4000mAh rechargeable battery by VARTA provides the Digipro ST Combo with four hours of energy. A complete charging cycle takes just about as long. The manufacturer added an assortment of accessories that include the 9.6V power supply as well as a car charging station so that the installer can recharge the analyzer while
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on the way to the next customer. A moisture resistant jacket is also provided to help protect the analyzer from dirt and the elements. The included carrying case lets you work with two free hands. A flip-open sun shade also makes it easier to read the LCD display in bright sunshine. To top it all off, the Digipro ST Combo comes with a USB cable for connection to a PC and an A/V cable for the video input/ output connection. The user manual is not in printed form; instead its in PDF format and can be found on the included CD. The Digipro ST Combo along with all of its accessories can be packed in a sturdy aluminum case for easy transport. It would also serve to protect the contents should the case be dropped. You cant help but notice the easy-to-read 3.5-inch LCD color display on the front panel. Four function buttons can be found underneath the display; the labeling for these buttons is displayed near the bottom of the screen. Just to the right are four more buttons in the shape of a cross that are used to work through the menus. Underneath that is a numerical keypad made up of 12 buttons as well as an ad-
ditional five function buttons off to the right. All of the buttons are legibly labeled making it very easy to operate the Digipro ST Combo. On the top of the analyzer the manufacturer placed a combination tuner input for satellite and terrestrial reception as well as an additional tuner connection for testing. The input/output jack for audio/video signals can also be found there. The SatCatcher Digipro that was sent to us for testing is for satellite and terrestrial signals (ST). There is also an SC version available for satellite and cable signals. The USB interface and the power supply input can be found on the bottom of the analyzer. This newest product from SatCatcher was manufactured with quality in mind and to be honest we didnt expect any less from this company. Even the rechargable battery, which in previous versions was permanently installed in the unit and could not be removed by the end user, is now inside its own battery compartment and can be replaced by end user. All units shipped after 1st April 2011 include this feature. SatCatcher have made the unit even more versatile for those busy installers, who are not only focussing
on tv installations, but also on video surveillance aka security installations: the newest SatCatcher not only captures DVB-S and DVB-T but also comes with an video input to use with standard cameras. SatCatcher has even added an active 12V output from the IF input port, so installers can also power a camera while making an install. To this end, the newest units shipped do now also include a F type to power jack cables (Our test sample was not yet equipped with this feature). As mentioned before, it is absolutely essential for the professional installer to have up-to-date satellite and transponder data always at his fingertips. Even an end-user would be thrilled to have this data readily available on his signal analyzer. Before we check out the technical signal measurement details of the Digipro ST Combo, we want to introduce you to two of the most important features of this analyzer. The first would be its 1GB of cache memory followed by a function to process and display NIT (network information table) data. The 1GB cache memory is the direct result of SatCatcher putting their heads together to decide the easiest way to port all of the
worldwide available satellite and transponder data to the signal analyzer. For this it was necessary to incorporate two different types of memory: work memory and main memory. The main memory is 1GB in size and can be loaded with data directly from a PC. It has room for roughly 300,000 satellite and transponder entries. As soon as a USB connection is established between the analyzer and a PC, the analyzer is recognized by MS Windows as a removable external storage device and therefore doesnt need any drivers or special software. Naturally, the user would need an up-to-date file in ASD format which is provided either directly from the manufacturer or from an authorized distributor. To update the satellite and transponder data, you simply would need to download the latest ASD file from the Internet and copy it to the removable external storage device. The SatCatcher engineers quickly recognized that it would be a big mistake to simply replace the entire database in the analyzer; undoubtedly there are quite a few end users that saved their own data in the analyzer - this data would be lost if the entire database were replaced.

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TEST REPORT
DVB-c Headend
Build your DVB-c cable headend converting DVB-S to DVB-c with Topreal
Jacek Pawlowski
DVB-C is a worldwide standard that describes digital cable TV. In most cases, the DVB-C signal that arrives at the wall outlet of cable subscribers homes is of satellite or terrestrial origin that is DVB-S or DVB-T respectively. Lets focus on DVB-S. Is the signal what is transmitted as DVB-C on the cable the same signal that is received at the headends satellite dish?
Well, if we take into account the digital content: video bit stream, audio bit stream and data stream the signals are almost identical. There are small changes in the data transmitted along with video and audio (for example there are no longer transponder frequencies but rather carrier frequencies) but the real difference lies in the frequency and modulation used. To convert DVB-S to DVB-C one needs a professional DVB-S receiver and a DVB-C QAM modulator. If you want to manipulate the content of the multiplex, you additionally need a re-multiplexer. One of the manufacturers of such professional units is Topreal from China; they provided us with the basicss for a cable headend: a satellite receiver, a modulator and a re-mulitplexer. All three Topreal units are designed to fit standard 19 racks or cabinets. As you can see on the pictures, these units are not fitted with neither RCA nor SCART connectors. Such professional devices use either F or BNC connectors because these have well defined 50 Ohm impedance matching the characteristic impedance of coax cables. ited this is typical for professional units which are set once and left unattended for long periods of time. But even this was not present, rather just a mere 4-digit 7 segment LED display, not even alphanumeric one. How is the user supposed to set the unit? A look at the rear panel revealed the way. Except for the LNB input and looped output (RF-IN, RF-OUT), doubled transport stream outputs (ASI_OUT), there were video and audio outputs resembling the ones we know from regular consumer receivers. The difference was only the connector type BNC sockets were used in TP-1010. But thats not all, there was even a S-Video output. So, maybe The receiver was not especially fast in accepting our key presses but this is not a very important mentioned The feature you for this kind of unit. As we already do configure it once and then nothing. funniest thing we discovered was the game menu. It seems that the firmware for this receiver was not designed from scratch but rather adopted from the consumer receiver. Nothing wrong with this if the unit performs well. one can just connect a regular TV-set to see the menu and set the unit? Yes, that was the way. The On-Screen Display we saw on our portable tv was very similar to the OSD which is used with regular satellite receivers. The significant difference was that all the receiver settings (including the numerical ones like frequency) were possible with just 6 buttons: four arrows, MENU and OK.
TP-1010 DVB-S Receiver

The satellite receiver was a little surprise for us at the beginning. We expected that the keypad will be rather lim-
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1. main menu of TP-1010 DVB-S Receiver 2. TP-1010 Language menu 3. TP-1010 System Setup 4. Setting up the reception of a THOR 5/6 transponder 5. Info bar after switching the channel in TP-1010 6. TP-1010 channel list
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We set the TP-1010 to receive a transponder from THOR 5/6 satellite at 0.8 West (11325H, 24500). Everything worked perfectly and within a second or so the video was on. We checked what happens when we switch the power off and on again. Video and audio were back after 2-3 seconds. Thats what one expects from a professional receiver in case of a power blackout the receiver recovers quickly and gracefully as soon as the power is back on. Then, we decided to test the reception of low bit rate weak signals. TP-1010 could not lock to the very weak signals from EUTELSAT W6 on 21.6 East nor EUTELSAT W7 on 36 East. Their bit rate was from approximately 1.5 through 2.5 Ms/s. But to be fair, we must mention that our satellite analyzer was equally unable to lock to those weak signals either. Only the very modern high class receiver that we use for satellite DX-ing could lock and process these signals. In regular applications, TP-1010 will be used rather to process high bit rate strong signals from the popular satellites. After all, this is not a product aimed at the DX-er market. The TP-1010 can cooperate with any type of LNB because you enter the LOF manually. You enter only one value as this receiver is supposed to lock to only one selected transponder. For example it can be 9750 MHz (the lower LOF of a universal LNB). Also the voltage corresponding to the polarization and the presence of 22 kHz that switches oscillators in the universal LNB must be set manually by the user. We subjected the receiver to another tough test. We attenuated the input signal down to the receivers sensitivity threshold and left it for 2 hours. In this way we simulated prolonged bad weather conditions. In such circumstances, the receiver must process a lot of erroneous data. This is extremely important for the professional receiver to be able to survive such situations without software crash. And TP-1010 did survive! As soon as we increased the level, it would produce crisply clear video and audio. Our general impression of TP-1010 is that it has all the basic functions a professional receiver must have. Lack
of alphanumeric display is a small hindrance as you need a TV-set to configure the unit. Yet you should take into account that normally you configure this unit once and it stays unchanged for months or even years.
TP-1600 QAm modulator

With this unit there was no surprise. The TP-1600 QAM modulator has a 2-line alphanumeric LCD display with backlit. This is very typical for head end equipment. Except for the LCD, there are six buttons and eight status LEDs. The rear panel is quite ascetic transport stream input, DVB-C signal output, LAN interface and ON/OFF power switch. However, Topreal also offers more enhanced versions. If you wish, instead of transport stream ASI input, they can embed a DVB-S, DVB-T or DVB-C tuner with corresponding input signal connector. However, in its basic version, TP-1600 takes the transport stream supplied from a professional receiver or an encoder and modulates it onto a carrier. All QAM modes are available (16/32/64/128/256 QAM ) in accordance with ITU-T J.83 Annex A. We decided to set it up without referring to the operating manual and everything went smoothly. User interface was really simple and straightforward everybody who understands the parameters of QAM modulation will set the unit in no time. You just enter the carrier frequency, QAM mode and symbol rate. We checked the unit in the same way as the receiver to find out if it can recover after a power cut. As expected everything went OK. After about 30 seconds we noticed the signal again. Neither the receiver nor the modulator required any action from the user to resume operation. But what about the strength and quality of the output signal? The channel power can be set from 107 through to 120 dBV. We measured it for the settings of 120 dBV and our meter showed us 119 dBV. Very good accuracy of the settings. Signal quality was nothing but perfect. We did the measurement for 64
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1. carrier frequency set to 474 mHz in TP-1600 QAm modulator 2. TP-1600 output was set to 120 dBV; our meter measures almost exactly the same 3. TP-1600 output signal has very high modulation Error Ratio and noise margin as high as 11 dB for 64 QAm 4. constellation diagram of DVB-c 64 QAm signal also shows its splendid signal-tonoise performance 5. TP-1600 set to the most demanding 256 QAm modulation mode; as expected, noise margin is lower than for 64 QAm but mER is as good as it was before 6. constellation diagram for the 256 QAm mode is even more picturesque than the one for 64 QAm
QAM and 256 QAM. Lower QAM modes are rather not used due to low bandwidth efficiency and 256 QAM is the highest possible mode according to the standard. Both measurements showed absolutely to noise course the perfect noise carrier Of margin performance.
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all the bits are sent serially rather than in parallel. The serial interface is prevailing in todays world as it uses simple coax cables fitted with BNC connectors. When we combine con-
photos, such channel name is displayed when the DVB-C signal is processed by our signal analyzer. The menu structure of
transponder. In most cases, you would prefer to compose your ent multiplex with or chaneven nels originating from differtransponders different sources (satellite, terrestrial, A/V players and alike). For that purpose you need a multiplexer. By the way, the correct name would be re-multiplexer rather than multiplexer. In fact, Topreal uses the word re-multiplexer in their user manual, only on the unit itself one can read multiplexer. In the course of this report, we will stick to its proper name: TP-1200 Remultiplexer. TP-1200 accepts up to 8 transport stream inputs and lets the users select whatever they want from the input data and compose one output transport stream. For example, we can connect eight TP-1010 receivers to the remultiplexer, each tuned to a different transponder/satellite. Then, we can pick one or more programs (TV or radio
TP-1200 is much more complex as compared to TP-1010 or TP-1600 but this is obvious. Moreover, you need to know quite something about the transport streams, tables and the process of multiplexing. We did not have the software to do the settings from a PC via LAN connection. Definitely, this would be a much more convenient way of setting up 8 inputs and 1 output of TP-1200. A little annoying feature Of course, we can also change the PIDs for example the video or audio PID of a channel. Such PID re-mapping may be necessary if we have a conflict the same PIDs are used by channels in different input transport streams. TP-1200 allows you to that we would suggest to change is the keyboard lock. Upon powering up, the keyboard is locked and you need to press left arrow, right arrow and left arrow again to unlock it. Thats still OK but if you hesitate a few seconds when doing a setting in the menu, the firmware will lock the keyboard again. You tent from different transport streams, we also need to update the data tables that are included in the transport stream. These tables describe the content of the stream. TP-1600 can produce or update the following tables: Program Association Table (PAT), Program Map Table (PMT), Service Description Table (SDT) and Network Information Table (NIT).
was lower for 256 QAM but this is simply physics and with every modulator we would get exactly the same outcome. The constellation diagrams confirmed what our MER and C/N measurements told us before about the signal. It was extremely clean almost no noise at all. We observed for a longer period the BBC World channel received with TP-1010 from THOR 5/6 on 0.8 West and remodulated to QAM with TP-1600. We did not notice any single glitch. Everything was working flawlessly. Also the bad weather test (see the receiver chapter) lasting for 2 hours did not make the modulator software crash. It
proved the robustness of its design.
TP-1200 Re-multiplexer
If you use only a professional receiver and a QAM modulator, the only possibility you have is to retransmit either all or some of the
channels) from every transponder and compose our own transport stream. This transport stream will be available on the TP-1600s output. All transport stream interfaces: input and output ones comply to ASI format. ASI is Asynchronous Serial Interface which means that
rename the channels too. You probably wont do that very often as the channel names are also trade marks, but such possibility exists. To test it, we changed the name of the 4funTV channel transmitted via HOTBIRD on 13 East at 10719V, 27500 to TSI1 channel. As you may see on one of the included
have to repeat everything from the very beginning. If you are very familiar with the re-multiplexer you can do all the settings fast enough but for the first-time user this is somewhat irritating. Similarly to the two previous units, TP-1200 remembered all the settings after power failure and restored everything without any human interaction.
ease of use are probably not the most important parameters. The performance and the price must be right. All units passed the tests we ran without any single problem. The trio was handling power failures gracefully and did not hang up even when the incoming signal was full of errors. Thats something that really counts in the head end equipment. Performance of the QAM modulator was very good indeed. Perhaps, the sensitivity of the receiver could be improved a little.
conclusion
Although one can imagine more functions for the cable head end (like scrambling the content or VOD), the three components described above are the most fundamental devices you will consider when collecting the equipment for a cable head end. It is evident that they were designed as separate units rather than as a family, as they do not match in external design nor menu structure. However, for the professional user, the uniform style and
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1. BBc World channel originally transmitted via the THOR 5/6 satellite on 0.8 West received by TP-1010 and re-modulated to DVB-c 64 QAm by TP-1600 2. 4funTV from HOTBIRD 13East received by TP-1010 Receiver, renamed to TSI1 channel with TP-1200 multiplexer and modulated with TP-1600 QAm modulator
Input Digital output Analog outputs Power supply TP-1200 Re-multiplexer Inputs Input bit rate (every stream) Input packet length Output Output bit rate Output packet length Power supply TP-1600 QAm modulator Input Output frequecy modulation Symbol rate Power channel Power supply
DVB-S, 950-2150 MHz looped through 2 x DVB transport stream (same signal on 2 connectors in ASI format) CVBS, Left/Right audio, S-Video 90-250 VAC 50/60 Hz
8 x DVB transport stream (ASI) 50 Mbps max. 188/204 bytes recognized automatically 2 x DVB transport stream (same signal on 2 connectors in ASI format) 2~108 Mbps 188 or 204 bytes (dummy Reed Solomon) 90-250 VAC, 50 Hz, 25 W
DVB transport stream (ASI) 48~862 MHz 16/32/64/128/256 QAM 2~7 Msps 107~120 dBV 90-260 VAC, 50/60 Hz, 30 W
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TEVII S480 TWIN TUNER Pc cARD Perfectly suited to upgrade a PC with 2 x HDTV reception plus PVR TENOW TBS 6981 DVB-S/S2 DUAL TUNER PC card with PVR and all the features youll ever need. Ideal also for feedhunters.
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08-09/2009 02-03/2010
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manufacturer Website Function Frequency Range Video Output Built-in monitor
8dtek Technology www.8dtek.com Satellite Meter for Antenna Alignment L-Band (950-2150 MHz), DVB-S/S2 and analog signal Composite Color graphic LCD
06-07/201 1
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06-07/201 1
SATcATcHER DIGIPRO ST cOmBO Combo Signal Analyzer with Huge Memory for Satellite and Terrestrial Channels
10-1 1/2010
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08-09/2010
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08-09/2010
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06-07/2010
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06-07/2010
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8dtek Technology www.8dtek.com DVB Signal Meter with tv monitor for DVB-S and DVB-T 950~2150 MHz (satellite) and UHF/VHF (terrestrial) RCA/RCA 3.5 LCD color display
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04-05/2010
8DTEK TSm-8800 Easy menu operation and exceptionally simple to operate
02-03/2010
0.6
TRImAX Sm-3500 A well-balanced digital meter with spectrum display and TV mode
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manufacturer Website Function Frequency Range Optical Range Video Output Built-in monitor
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12-01/2010
HORIZON NANOSAT Ideal for the speedy alignment of satellite antennas
12-01/2010
GLOBAL INVAcOm OPTIScAN Future-proof satellite signal analyzer for optical and coaxial LNBs
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10-1 1/2009
SATcATcHER DIGIPRO EXcEL-TV mK3 Easy and self-explanatory a device for laymen and pros alike
10-1 1/2009
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DEVISER, Fabricant danalyseur de signal en chine
Diviser
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DEVISER, Fabricant danalyseur de signal en chine
DIVISER complmente son programme sur les cbles, les tlcommunications et lanalyseur de signaux fibres optiques avec la technologie satellite
En Octobre 2010, DEVISER a commenc dvelopper son premier analyseur de signaux satellite. Le rsultat de cet effort se trouve dj sur les tagres des magasins: Le modle simple S20 pour les mesures des signaux satellites DVB-S. En Juillet 2011, le prochain modle dot dun tuner DVBS2 sortira et en Octobre 2011, DEVISER prvoit un modle S7000 haut de gamme. Comment quune entreprise comme DEVISER a fini par produire des analyseurs de signaux satellite? TELE-satellite a effectu une visite de lentreprise Tianjin, grand port situ sur la cte est chinoise. Le train grande vitesse roulait 330 kilomtres par heure et nous a amen de la toute rcente gare du sud de Beijing la semblable, toute nouvelle gare de Tianjin. Tianjin est une ville de plus de 10 millions dhabitants et abrite de nombreuses socits industrielles. tonnamment, DEVISER est lune des plus anciennes entreprises de Tianjin. Elle a t cre sous le nom de DELY en 1990 par Zhong Changgan, un ingnieur en aronautique. Il nous explique: lpoque, les premiers rseaux cbls de tlvision taient monts mais il ny avait pas danalyseurs de signaux disponibles.
Tianjin
Zhong Changgan dcela cette possibilit et a cr le premier fabricant chinois danalyseurs du signal Tv par cble. Ce groupe de produits reprsente encore lessentiel de leur chiffre daffaires daujourdhui. 80% de nos analyseurs de signaux sont pour la tlvision par cble Cite le fondateur et prsident Zhong Changgan, Tandis que 10% sont pour le cble fibres optiques et 5% sont pour les tlcommunications. Les 5% restants devraient tre constitus par les nouveaux analyseurs de signal satellite en phase de dmarrage. Le Directeur des ventes lexport
Le nouveau sige de DEVISER

et atelier de production reprsents par cette maquette architecturale.
DEVISER
Signal Analyzer Manufacturer, China
www.devisertek.com
Company Details
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Production Certicates
RoHS, CE, UL, ISO 10012, ISO 90001

Production Categories
OEM, own brand

Main Products
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Signal Analyzers for Cable, Terrestrial, Telecommunications, Fiber Optic and Satellite, Spektrum Analyzers, Vector Network Analyzers, Broadcasting Measurement Instruments, QAM Meters
Un salut amical vous attend l'entre de DEVISER. La socit agit l'chelle nationale
sous l'appellation de DELY Instruments Electronics. Le nom de marque DEVISER n'est utilis que pour les exportations. Quelques-uns des nombreux certificats que DEVISER a accumul au fil des ans, sont accrochs ici, sur le mur. Inclus dans cette collection, se trouvent ceux reconnus mondialement pour la certification ISO 90001 (gestion de la qualit) et ISO 10012 (normes des mesures de qualit). En outre, DEVISER est galement certifi CE, ROHS et UL ainsi que beaucoup d'autres.
Jason Wu nous explique o DEVISER livre ses produits: 50% sont expdis aux tats-Unis, 15% vont chacun vers lEurope et lInde et le reste 20% fraient leur chemin vers la Core du Sud et dautres pays sud-asiatiques. Selon Wu Jason, Nous utilisons le nom de DEVISER uniquement pour nos exportations. Qui utilise actuellement des produits de DEVISER? Jason Wu brosse un tableau de leurs clients: Cest principalement des cblo-oprateurs professionnels qui ont besoin de mettre en place et maintenir de grands rseaux cbls. On a besoin danalyseurs de signaux professionnels pour cela. Bien sr, cela soulve la question de savoir pourquoi DEVISER a commenc produire des analyseurs de signaux satellite. Il ny a pas trop longtemps, nous avons fait une extension dans le cble fibres optiques, commente Jason Wu, La seule chose qui manquait, a t la rception satellite. Considrant que DEVISER a plus de 20 ans dexprience dans ce march, ce nest donc pas surprenant que parmi leurs 260 employs, 85 sont des ing-
nieurs. Divis en quatre quipes de R&D diffrentes, ces ingnieurs hautement qualifis travaillent en permanence sur lamlioration de leurs analyseurs et sur de nouvelles fonctionnalits du produit ainsi que sur le dveloppement de nouveaux produits tels que la nouvelle marque danalyseurs de signaux satellite. La russite de ces ingnieurs peut tre constate dans la production et les chiffres de ventes. Au cours de notre premire anne 1990, nous avons produit environ 100 units, se souvient le fondateur de DEVISER, Zhong Changgan, En 2010 nous avons atteint des ventes de 30.000 units. Cela a engrang des ventes denviron 20 millions de dollars en 2010. Pour 2011, nous nous attendons une augmentation des ventes de 20%, signale le directeur des ventes lexport M. Jason Wu. Il base cela en partie au segment nouveau de lanalyseur de signaux satellites: Nous nous attendons, par exemple, que le nouveau analyseur de signal satellite S20 totalisera des ventes denviron 15.000 units pour les trois prochaines annes et environ
500 units par an du modle haut de gamme S7000. Jason Wu connait dj les acheteurs de ces analyseurs: Nous avons dj quelques commandes initiales. Un client en Amrique du Sud a plac une commande pour mille units et nos distributeurs en Europe et lInde sont en cours de nous faire parvenir des commandes. La confiance dans lexprience et lexpertise des ingnieurs de DEVISER sont si levs que les units sont vendues avant mme quelles ne soient fabriques. Mme si, DEVISER reste naturellement ouvert de nouveaux acheteurs. Les distributeurs qui ont des contacts avec des installateurs satellite et des cblo-oprateurs locaux doivent menvoyer un e-mail, suggre Jason Wu, qui est responsable des exportations des produits.Si vous voulez rencontrer Jason Wu en personne, vous pouvez le trouver avec lingnieur en chef de DEVISER, Cao Yuliang dans un certain nombre de foires commerciales telles que le CABSAT (Duba), CCBN (Beijing), SCAT (Mumbai), Cable Tec (Atlanta), KCTA (Daegu) et bien dautres. Et si vous voulez en savoir plus sur le fonctionnement de leur analyseur de signal satellite, vous navez plus qu attendre les prochains numros de Tl-satellite: Nous allons prsenter des rapports de test sur les nouveaux analyseurs de DEVISER dans les prochains numros.
Le directeur des ventes du march l'export, Jason Wu montre quelques dveloppements particulirement intressants de produits.
En 2007, la socit a introduit un analyseur de signal pour les fabricants de rcepteurs. ce produit serait utilis lors de la production d'un rcepteur, il fournit diffrents signaux qui peuvent tre utiliss pour tester le rcepteur aux diffrentes tapes de la production.
quipe R&D
1. L'Ingnieur en chef m. Yuliang cao. Il coordonne entres les quatre quipes de R&D et il est la personne de contact pour les clients lors des foires commerciales. Il peut fournir les rponses aux requtes spciales des clients ou quand ils veulent de nouvelles fonctionnalits intgres dans les analyseurs de signaux. Il rappelle, DEVISER a investi plus de 1,5 million de dollars dans la plus moderne technologie pour dvelopper de nouveaux analyseurs de signaux. Le succs de cette stratgie peut tre vu dans les 30 brevets que l'quipe de DEVISER a dj obtenu. 2. Le directeur de division pour satellite et cble, c'est Xiangsen Kong. Il est debout ici ct d'un cabinet de modulateurs utiliss pour fournir des signaux pour le test de l'analyseur. 3. Les ingnieurs prsentent firement aujourd'hui l'un des premiers chantillons de l'analyseur de signal satellite haut de gamme S7000. A l'extrme gauche se trouve l'ingnieur en chef Wang Zhiying et l'extrme droite c'est l'Ingnieur en chef software Wang Renping. 4. Un analyseur de signal ncessite aussi un boitier, Anjinhao est le concepteur du boitier chez DEVISER et a dvelopp le boitier du nouveau analyseur de signal S7000 ; Sur son bureau se trouvent des chantillons des autres types d'analyseurs de signaux de DEVISER.
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Sales Team
1. Jason Wu aime lire TELE-satellite. Il est en charge de l'quipe de vente l'export qui est compose de quatre employs. Il voyage souvent et on peut le rencontrer dans les nombreuses foires commerciales sur le stand de DEVISER. 2. Les clients en Asie contactent Aaron. 3. Vicky Han est l'interlocuteur pour les clients en Amrique du Nord.
Production
4. Le directeur de production c'est Li Xiao Hong. Il coiffe un staff important de 100 employs de la production et distribue les charges de travail ses employs. On le voit ici ct d'un gnrateur de signaux qui est utilis quand une srie de production est termine pour talonner et tester le bon fonctionnement des units. 5. Une vue de l'entre de l'atelier de stockage. Les employs ici veillent sur les nombreux composants ncessaires la production de plusieurs modles diffrents d'analyseurs de signaux. 6. Une zone de l'atelier de production. Les analyseurs de signaux sont produits dans des petites chanes d'assemblage et de stations d'essai.
Production
7. La machine SmT. Les composants sont placs automatiquement ce niveau. 8. Le test se droule aprs la production. L'AOI (Automatic Optical inspecteur ou inspection visuelle automatique) effectue une inspection visuelle automatiquement. 9. De nombreuses tches doivent tre faites manuellement. Les tuners sont assembls ici. 10. Le couvercle de l'analyseur de signal est plac ce niveau. 11. Ici, un employ effectue le test de l'analyseur de signal. 12. L'une des nombreuses stations de test o les analyseurs de signaux finis sont tests pour un bon fonctionnement. 13. Avant que les boitiers soient monts, un employ effectue un test complet de l'analyseur de signal. 14. L'analyseur de signal tant fini, mais es-ce que a fonctionne correctement? Au test final, plusieurs paramtres sont contrls l'aide des gnrateurs de signaux de haute qualit pour calibrer l'analyseur. 15. Les produits finis sont complts avec des batteries et mis en charge ici, pendant 36 heures.
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16. Une unit est retire de chaque lot de production et, est soumise une srie de tests spciaux. Tous les paramtres possibles sont vrifis et compars aux valeurs dsires. ceci garantit une qualit constante des analyseurs de signaux DEVISER. 17. Des analyseurs de signaux de cble, trs professionnel, valus plusieurs milliers de dollars sont galement fabriqus par DEVISER et, comme toutes les autres units, sont soumis un test de dure de vie. Les analyseurs doivent rester dans les limites de tolrance tout au long du test de la dure de vie, au cours de laquelle une srie de tests de mesure est effectue pour vrifier que les limites tolres ne soient pas dpasses. Tous les analyseurs de DEVISER ont une dure de vie oprationnelle de plus de 10.000 heures.
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18. Les analyseurs DEVISER en cours de test de dure de vie avec des moniteurs large bande. Divers signaux sont rgulirement appliqus afin de tester les performances de l'analyseur pour ces signaux. 19. Les analyseurs DEVISER ne fonctionnent pas seulement la temprature ambiante. Pour cette raison, chaque unit doit subir un test de l'environnement. Les analyseurs doivent fonctionner correctement des tempratures jusqu' 50c. cet employ effectue un test d'environnement en utilisant des gnrateurs multiples de signaux. 20. En raison des nombreux modles d'analyseur de signaux fabriqus par DEVISER, un nombre important de gnrateurs de signaux sont galement ncessaires. Une srie de ces gnrateurs sont disponibles dans cet atelier o des chantillons de production sont tests. 21. Les analyseurs de spectre sont tests dans un autre atelier. Diffrents spectres sont gnrs que l'analyseur de signal DEVISER doit afficher correctement. 22. S'il arrive qu'un analyseur de DEVISER tombe en panne aprs plusieurs annes de service, le responsable du service aprs-vente mlle. Yue Tianhong est la bonne personne qui parler. Avec son quipe de six techniciens de rparation, elle peut ramener tout analyseur de signal DEVISER la vie.
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Signal Analyzer manufacturer DEVISER, china

In October 2010, DEVISER began developing their first satellite signal analyzers. The result of this effort can already be found on store shelves: the basic S20 model for DVB-S satellite signal measurements. In July 2011 the follow-up model with a DVB-S2 tuner will appear and by October 2011 DEVISER is planning on a high-end S7000 model. How does a company like DEVISER end up producing satellite signal analyzers? TELE-satellite paid a visit to the company in Tianjin, a large seaport located on the Chinese east coast. The high-speed train traveled at 330 km/h and brought us from the brand new Beijing South train station to the equally brand new Tianjin train station. Tianjin is a city with more than 10 million inhabitants and is home to many different industrial companies. Surprisingly, DEVISER is one of the oldest firms in Tianjin. It was founded under the name DELY back in 1990 by Zhong Changgan, an aircraft engineer. He explains to us: Back then the first cable TV networks were being built up but there were no signal analyzers this available. opportunity Chinas of Zhong and first cable Changgan founded recognized President Zhong Changgan, while 10% are for fiber optic cable and 5% are for telecommunications. The remaining 5% are expected to be made up of the newly started Sales satellite Director signal Overanalyzers. seas Markets Jason Wu explains to us where DEVISER delivers its prod-
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TV analyzers. This product group still makes up most of their sales today. 80% of our signal analyzers are for cable TV, lists founder and
ucts: 50% are shipped to the USA, 15% each goes to Europe and India with the remaining 20% finding their way to South Korea and other Southeast Asian countries. According to Jason Wu, We only use the name DEVISER for our exports. Who actually uses DEVISERs products? Jason Wu gives an overview of their customers: It is primarily professional cable operators that need to set up and maintain large cable networks. You need professional signal analyzers for that. Of course this brings up the question as to why DEVISER began producing satellite signal analyzers. Not too long ago we expanded into fiber optic cable, comments Jason Wu, the only thing missing was satellite reception. Considering that DE-
VISER has more than 20 years experience in this market, it should come as no surprise that of their 260 employees, 85 of them are engineers. Divided into four different R&D teams, these highly neers working qualified are on engiconstantly improve-
in sales of 20%, says Sales Director Overseas Markets Jason Wu. He bases this in part due to the new satellite signal analyzer sector: Were expecting, for example, that the new S20 satellite signal analyzer will net us sales of about 15,000 units for the next three years and from the high-end S7000 model about 500 units per year. Jason Wu already knows who wants to buy these analyzers: We already have quite a few preorders. One customer in South America has placed an order for one thousand units and our distributors in Europe and India are in the process of forwarding orders to us. The confidence in the experience and expertise of the DEVISER engineers is so high that units are being sold before they
are even manufactured. Even so, DEVISER is naturally open to additional buyers. Distributors who have contact with satellite installers and local cable operators should send me an e-mail, suggests Jason Wu who is responsible for product exports. If you want to meet Jason Wu in person, you can find him and DEVISERs Chief Engineer Cao Yuliang at a number of different trade shows such as CABSAT (Dubai), CCBN (Beijing), Cable SCaT Tec (Mumbai),
ments to their analyzers and on new product features as well as new product satellite ers. The success of these engineers can be seen in the production and sales numbers. In our first year 1990 we produced roughly 100 units, remembers DEVISER founder Zhong Changgan, in 2010 we reached sales of 30,000 units. This resulted is sales of about US$ 20 million for 2010. For 2011 we are expecting in increase development signal analyzsuch as the brand new
(Atlanta), KCTA (Daegu) and many others. And if you want to know more about how their satellite signal analyzers work, you merely have to wait for the next issues of TELE-satellite: we will be presenting test reports of DEVISERs new analyzers issues. in upcoming

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Amiko Fabricant de rcepteurs en Hongrie
Le dmarrage de Amiko
Leur propre usine de production en Hongrie Des bureaux de vente directs dans tous les pays d'Europe centrale Une coopration intensive avec le fournisseur de composants Fulan Des mises jour de firmware automatiques du rcepteur et une volution constante de dveloppement Leur propre quipe R&D avec un service technique interne
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Amiko Fabricant de rcepteurs en Hongrie
comment naisse une nouvelle marque de rcepteur

Dans le dernier numro de Tl-satellite nous avons prsent le premier rcepteur Dual Boot de Amiko: lutilisateur peut choisir le logiciel dexploitation utiliser dans ce rcepteur. Il sagit dune innovation remarquable puisquelle permet de sparer le hardware (le rcepteur lui-mme) du logiciel (utilis pour faire fonctionner le rcepteur).Mais il y a plus: Spark a t mis en service, la premire fois avec nimporte quel rcepteur. Cela permet non seulement aux rcepteurs dtre mis jour automatiquement, mais a permet galement au fabricant de communiquer directement avec lutilisateur final. Les applications pour cette nouvelle technologie semblent tre nombreuses; Ca reste rellement du domaine de linconnu quant sa finalit. Mais qui est derrire Amiko? Dans une zone industrielle nouvellement cre au nord-est de la capitale Hongroise Budapest, Amiko a lu domicile. Elle est constitue dun btiment administratif et un entrept mitoyen. Amiko expdie ses rcepteurs partir dici vers les pays dEurope centrale. Amiko a dmnag dans ce tout nouveau btiment qu la fin de 2010 seulement; Avant cela, Amiko tait installe au centre ville de Budapest. Les fondateurs de Amiko se connaissaient chacun depuis un certain temps: Nous nous sommes rencontrs en 1995 , se souvient le responsable financier Zsolt Harangi. Ils taient tous deux introduits dans lindustrie des satellites avec des socits diffrentes. lpoque, ctait encore la technologie analogique, se rappelle Jszef Zsimn. Puis
Budapest
lre du numrique a commenc et un moment donn, les deux, tous ensemble estimaient quil tait temps de prendre les choses en main soi-mme. Nous avons commenc avec quatre employs, explique Jszef Zsimn. Aujourdhui, ils en sont 14 employs dans leur bureau de Budapest. Leurs ventes se sont tendues vers dautres clients, dans les pays voisins o lon trouve galement le reste des employs de Amiko: 17 se trouvent dans le bureau de vente tchque, huit en Roumanie, quatre en Serbie ainsi que six dans des bureaux de ventes locales en Hongrie. Et sans omettre les employs de la chane de production du rcepteur. Puisque la production nest pas constante, le nombre demploys varie entre 20 et 40. Au dbut des activits,
Le btiment au premier plan contient

les bureaux de vente, l'administration, R&D et le service. Leurs produits sont expdis de l'entrept ci-contre. La socit est certifie ISO par le TV.
les deux associs se sont concentrs exercer la fonction de grossiste pour le matriel satellite. Ils ont vendu des rcepteurs numriques de plusieurs fabricants ainsi que tous les accessoires que linstallateur ncessite: Tte (LNB), assiettes, multiswitchs et cble. Cette activit reprsente encore une partie de leur chiffre daffaires daujourdhui. En 2010 ,50% de nos ventes taient composes des ventes de gros et les autres 50% taient constitues par nos
propres marques de rcepteur, Explique le Directeur financier Zsolt Harangi. Pour 2011, les prvisions sont plutt trs diffrentes: Nous prvoyons pour lanne en cours que nos marques de rcepteur reprsenteront 70% de nos ventes et nos activits de gros seront ramenes 30%, explique Zsolt Harangi. Lappellation de la marque Amiko est trs rcente. Jszef Zsimn sexplique, En 2010, nous avons cr deux marques: Amiko pour la vente en
dtail et SYNAPS pour les oprateurs. SYNAPS offre des rcepteurs DVB-C et TNT pour les cblodistributeurs et les fournisseurs de programmation. Amiko est un nom de marque pour le march du dtail. Nous travaillons en troite collaboration avec Fulan en Chine. Ils nous fournissent la plupart de nos composants pour rcepteurs , explique le directeur du Marketing Jszef Zsimn. Les rcepteurs sont monts sur une chaine dassemblage
AMIKO
Receiver Manufacturer, Hungary
www.amikostb.com
Company Details
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own brands AMIKO, SYNAPS - cooperation with FULAN

Main Products
Receiver for DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/MPEG-4, DVB-C, award winning product Dual Boot Linux receiver for DVB-S/S2 and DVB-T
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Budapest. Nous avons atteint une excellente qualit de notre production, poursuit-il, Les composants de Fulan sont dj de qualit suprieur et notre propre quipe dassurance qualit procde encore une fois leur contrle. Ce qui est plus important encore en ayant votre propre ligne de production et votre propre marque de rcepteur, cest que cela permet de gagner la confiance du client. Dans leurs nombreuses annes dexprience, les deux propritaires lont tous constat avant: Lorsque des fournisseurs ont dlocalis leur production ailleurs, les clients se plaignent auprs des revendeurs sur la non disponibilit de pices de rechange ou de service en plus. Cela ne peut pas arriver avec nos produits, commente Jszef Zsimn, Nous avons un magasin bien approvisionn de pices dtaches partir duquel nous pouvons livrer toute pice possible pour chaque rcepteur chez nos clients. Nous allons tre en mesure de le faire pendant les prochaines annes venir. Si vous maitrisez votre propre ligne de production, vous pouvez avancer de telles dclarations. Mais ce ntait l quune des raisons pour laquelle Amiko a dcid de fabriquer son propre produit. Par pure concidence, Jszef Zsimn a reu un appel tlphonique cet instant mme de notre interview: Les techniciens
1. Le directeur du marketing de Amiko est Zsimn Jszef. 2. Zsolt Harangi est heureux avec les chiffres d'affaire. Il est directeur financier de Amiko.
Amiko ont trouv un bogue de logiciel dans la nouvelle version et ont immdiatement transmis cette information au fournisseur de composants Fulan en Chine. Il est 14 heures Budapest et en quelques minutes une rponse est venue de Chine: Nous y travaillons. Jszef Zsimn lve les yeux de son tlphone portable: Cest exactement cela qui rend notre collaboration avec Fulan trs parfaite: Une raction immdiate un problme malgr le dcalage horaire de six heures avec la Chine! Amiko et Fulan sont deux socits qui se complmentent parfaitement; Une production intense avec une distribution ici et une fabrication de composants l bas. Jszef Zsimn voit tout cela raliste: Nous nous trouvons dans une rude concurrence avec dautres fournisseurs, mais sur le long terme, la russite ne sourira que pour ceux qui fournissent les meilleurs produits et offrent le meilleur service. Selon Jszef Zsimn, la dcision sur le choix du rcepteur utilis par le client ne se repose pas sur ce dernier mais plutt avec linstallateur ou le revendeur: Simplement en utilisant eux-mmes les rcepteurs, les installateurs et les distributeurs peuvent recommander une marque spcifique qui offre le meilleur service. Cela namliore pas la situation si un client revient aprs seulement une courte priode, avec des rclamations. Jszef Zsimn indique que la justesse de ses dclarations est prouve simplement par la croissance constante court terme de sa jeune entreprise Amiko. Cette augmentation est surtout le rsultat de lvolution rapide des ventes de rcepteurs Amiko. La rpartition gographique de ces ventes est particulirement intressante. Curieusement, le march intrieur en Hongrie nest pas le plus important; En fait, environ 20%, la Rpublique tchque, la Slovaquie et la Roumanie sont au top et la Hongrie occupant la quatrime place avec environ 15%. Le fait que Amiko est si bien plac dans ces pays, cela est d en grande partie leur politique commerciale active: Nous avons des bureaux de vente dans la Rpublique tchque, en Roumanie, Serbie et mme ici en Hongrie, explique Jszef Zsimn, le pourquoi dune telle performance de ventes dans ces pays. Dans dautres pays dEurope centrale Amiko
3. mrton Lengyel est Directeur des ventes et dirige une quipe forme de 6 reprsentants commerciaux 4. Beata Karsai est responsable des ventes et de la logistique.
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a des relations trs troites avec les grossistes. Jszef Zsimn les cite: Cela comprend la Bulgarie, la Croatie, la Bosnie-Herzgovine, la Slovaquie, la Grce, la Slovnie ainsi que les trois Etats baltes. Et ce nest pas tout: En 2011 nous allons commencer la distribution en Ukraine avec un concessionnaire local l-bas et en 2012 nous prvoyons daller en Albanie. Amiko est continuellement en tat dexpansion. Cependant, nous ntions pas intress connaitre seulement la faon dont est rpartie gographiquement Amiko. Nous avions voulu savoir galement ce quils ont prvu pour leurs rcepteurs. Il sagissait l dune question que Jszef Zsimn attendait avec impatience et tait trs heureux de rpondre : Au troisime trimestre, Amiko ALIEN.2 sera produit avec un chipset encore plus puissant. Mis part cela, nous sommes toujours en train de dvelopper notre logiciel de rcep-
1. L'quipe R&D dans l'atelier bien garni de lengineering. 2. Un technicien Amiko vrifie le bon fonctionnement. Une fois qu'un problme a t localis, la production est mise niveau pour viter l'erreur d'tre refaite.
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sige administratif de Amiko. ce nest pas uniquement les rcepteurs Amiko qui sont expdis partir de l, mais lon trouve galement des composants de satellite stocks ici (LNB, assiettes, multiswitchs, cble) que Amiko en tant que grossiste expdie aux installateurs et aux dtaillants.
teur avec de nouvelles fonctionnalits. Jszef Zsimn insiste pour nous sur ces fonctionnalits qui devraient apparatre plus tard cette anne: Navigateur Web, WIFI, support de Flash, NTFS, Hub USB et de la messagerie. Les utilisateurs de rcepteurs Amiko ALIEN devraient tre heureux; Ces nouvelles fonctionnalits sintgreront deux-mmes dans leurs rcepteurs grce la fonctionna-
lit de mise jour automatique du logiciel. Peut-on sattendre voir dautres surprises de Amiko? Jszef Zsimn dvoile quelques bribes sur leur seconde ligne de rcepteurs, SYNAPS, qui sont utiliss par les cblodistributeurs et les fournisseurs de programmation: la fin de 2011, nous allons offrir aussi des rcepteurs avec chipset duo. De cette faon Amiko peut fournir des services
Les antennes paraboliques sur le toit
Amiko ont t installes de faon trs agences. Zsolt Bornemissza est le chef d'quipe R&D et nous explique ce qu'il y a lieu de voir ici: Ici, vous trouverez cinq antennes de 85 cm, chacune munie d'un moteur DiSEqc. Il ya aussi deux assiettes de 1,25 mtres, l'une avec un moteur actuateur et l'autre fixe sur place et aligne sur 36E et quipe d'une tte en bande Ku circulaire.
aux fournisseurs de programmation qui utilisent galement cette technologie. Seront-ils tellement concerns, les deux grants dAmiko, quun jour, tous les fabricants de TV intgreront des rcepteurs dans leurs produits? Lorsque dautres fonctions sont ncessaires ou une gamme de frquence plus tendue doit tre capte, par exemple, la tlvision par satellite, alors la seule
solution serait den avoir un rcepteur spar. commente Jszef Zsimn. Il est convaincu que Amiko avec ses rcepteurs et surtout avec sa nouvelle gamme de rcepteurs ALIEN se fraiera un chemin qui lui permettra dvoluer continuellement et apportera avec elle un important potentiel de croissance .On ne peut qutre daccord avec cette dmarche!
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1. Une antenne torodale avec 9 ttes Quattro, complte cette installation idale d'antenne satellite. 2. Tous les cbles d'antenne satellite convergent vers cette armoire de distribution. Le branchement des antennes arrive sur la moiti suprieure de l'armoire avec toutes les lignes de sortie provenant de la moiti infrieure de l'armoire et en allant vers chaque poste de travail et aux moniteurs de dmonstration. De cette faon, chaque poste de travail et chaque moniteur peut tre aliment par un signal satellite individuel: il vous suffit de brancher le cble de raccordement appropri. L'tiquetage facile lire sur l'ensemble des connexions, permet une utilisation simple et aise.
Fabrication chez Amiko

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1. Une vue dans la zone de production: Les employs de Amiko assemblent les rcepteurs ici. 2. Les rcepteurs finis sont tests individuellement avant d'tre emballs.
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Receiver manufacturer AmIKO, Hungary

In the last issue of TELEsatellite we introduced the first Dual Boot receiver from AMIKO: the user can choose which operating software to use in his receiver. This is a remarkable innovation in that it separates the hardware (the receiver itself) from the software (used to operate the receiver). But theres more: Spark was put into service for the first time with any receiver. This not only provides for automatic receiver updates but it also allows the manufacturer to directly communicate with the end user. The applications for this new technology appear to be numerous; its really not known as yet how far reaching this can be. But whos behind AMIKO? In a newly developed industrial zone northeast of Hungarys capital Budapest, AMIKO has its home. It consists of an administration building and an attached warehouse. AMIKO ships its receivers from here to countries in central Europe. AMIKO moved into this brand new building only at the end of 2010; before that AMIKO was located in downtown Budapest. AMIKOs founders have known each other for quite some time: We met back in 1995, remembers Financial Manager Zsolt Harangi. They were both involved in the satellite industry with different companies. Back then it was all still analog technology, recalls Jzsef Zsimn. Then the digital age began and at some point the two of them felt the time was right to take things into their own hands. We started with four employees, explains Jzsef Zsimn. Today there are 14 employees in their Budapest office. Their sales have expanded to include customers in neighboring countries where youll also find the remainder of AMIKOs employees: 17 in the Czech sales office, eight in Romania, four in Serbia as well as six more in local sales offices in Hungary. And lets not forget the employees in the receiver production line. Since production is not continuous, the number of employees varies between 20 and 40. When the business first started, the two partners focused on being a satellite wholesaler. They distributed digital receivers from a va-
riety of manufacturers as well as everything else an installer needs: LNBs, dishes, multiswitches and cable. This business still makes up a part of their sales today. In 2010 50% of our sales were wholesale with the other 50% consisting of our own receiver brands, explains Financial Manager Zsolt Harangi. For 2011 though the picture looks quite different: We expect for the current year that our receiver brands will make up 70% of our sales while our wholesale business will drop to
30%, comments Zsolt Harangi. The AMIKO brand name is very new. Jzsef Zsimn explains, In 2010 we founded two brand names: AMIKO for retail and SYNAPS for operators. SYNAPS offers DVB-C and DVB-T receivers for cable and other programming providers. AMIKO is a brand name for the retail market. We are working very close together with FULAN in China. They provide us with most of our receiver components, explains Marketing Manager Jzsef Zsimn. The receivers are assembled on a production line in Budapest. We have achieved excellent quality in our production, he continues, The components from FULAN are already of the highest quality and our own quality assurance team checks it all once again. Even more important with having your own production line and your own receiver brand is having the customer rely on you. In their many years of experience the two owners have seen it all before: suppliers shifted their production elsewhere and customers would contact the dealer and complain why they cant get any spare parts or service anymore. This cant happen with our products, comments Jzsef Zsimn, We have a fully
stocked spare parts warehouse from which we can deliver any possible component for every receiver to our customers. Well be able to do this for years to come. If you control your own production line, you can make statements like that. But this was only one of the reasons why AMIKO decided to produce their own products. By sheer coincidence, Jzsef Zsimn received a telephone call at that very moment in our interview: the AMIKO technicians found a software bug in the newest version and immediately forwarded this information to the component provider FULAN in China. Its 2PM in Budapest and within minutes an answer came from China: Were working on it. Jzsef Zsimn looks up from his mobile telephone: This is exactly what makes our cooperation with FULAN so perfect: immediate reaction to a problem despite the six-hour time difference with China! AMIKO and FULAN are two companies that are perfect for each other; energetic production and distribution here with component manufacturing there. Jzsef Zsimn sees it all realistically: We find ourselves in stiff competition with other providers but over the long term success will only be for those who
provide the best products and offer the best service. According to Jzsef Zsimn, the decision on what receiver the customer uses doesnt rest with the customer but rather with the installer or dealer: just from using the receivers themselves, installers and dealers can recommend a specific brand that provides the best service. It doesnt help the situation if a customer comes back with complaints after only a short time. Jzsef Zsimn says that the accuracy of his statements is proven simply by the consistent, short-term growth of his young company AMIKO. This increase is above all the result of the speedy development of AMIKO receiver sales. The geographical distribution of these sales is especially interesting. Oddly enough the home market in Hungary is not the biggest; in fact, at about 20%, The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania are at the top with Hungary in fourth place at about 15%. The fact that AMIKO is so well placed in these countries is due in large part to their active business policy: We have sales offices in The Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia and even here in Hungary, explains Jzsef Zsimn why sales
are so good in these countries. In other central European countries AMIKO has very tight relationships with wholesalers. Jzsef Zsimn lists them: This includes Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Slovakia, Greece, Slovenia as well as the three Baltic states. And thats not all: In 2011 well be begin distribution in the Ukraine with a local dealer there and in 2012 we plan to go into Albania. AMIKO is continuously in expansion mode. But we werent only interested in how AMIKO is spread out geographically; we also wanted to know what they have planned for their receivers. This was a question that Jzsef Zsimn was only too happy to answer: In the third quarter the AMIKO ALIEN.2 will appear with an even more powerful chipset. Aside from that, we are always expanding our receiver software with new features. Jzsef Zsimn highlights these features for us that should appear later this year: Web browser, WiFi, Flash Support, NTFS, USB Hub and Messaging. Owners of AMIKO ALIEN receivers should be happy; these new features will appear on their own in their receivers thanks to the automatic software update feature.

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BYA, fabricant dantennes et rcepteurs satellite en Algrie
Des antennes perfores d'Algrie

Alexander Wiese
Avec une nouvelle srie dantennes paraboliques en mtal perfor, le fabricant Algrien BYA Electronic veut lancer une offensive lexportation. Y a-t-il des raisons de sattendre un succs sur le march des antennes paraboliques fortement conteste? Il ne sera pas facile BYA, mais il ya plusieurs raisons qui nous permettent dtre optimiste. Slimane Ait Yala, fondateur de BYA, nous donne les raisons de cet optimisme.
BYA
Dish and Receiver Manufacturer, Algeria
www.bya-electronic.com
Company Details
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0.................................. 5 ...................10 Mio uro

RoHS, DVB
OEM, ODM
Main Products
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1103/eng/bya.pdf
Satellite Dishes with Full and Perforated Metal (60, 105 and 120cm), TV-Sets with CRT, LCD (32 and 40 inch) or Plasma (42 and 50 inch), Satellite Receiver for DVB-S/S2
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Ain El Bia (Oran, Algeria)
Lusine de production sur 16.000 mtres carr est situe dans la ville de Ain El Bia. Cette ville, avec 20.000 habitants, se trouve 35km environ lest de la deuxime plus grande ville dAlgrie: Oran avec presque 1,6 millions dhabitants. Le port dArzew est juste ct de Ain El Bia; cest l que Sonatrach, la compagnie Algrienne de ptrole rempli ses ptroliers. Et cest la premire raison pour laquelle Slimane Ait Yala est convaincu que les antennes quil fabrique seront commercialises avec succs dans le march pour lexportation: LAlgrie est un pays producteur de ptrole, explique-t-il, cela signifie que les cots de lnergie en Algrie sont trs faibles. Il enchaine tout de suite avec la deuxime raison: Les salaires en Algrie sont galement trs faibles; le salaire minimum officiel est denviron 100 Euros. Mis part cela, le mtal ncessaire leur production dassiette est produit localement.
Toutes ces raisons convergent presque toutes la conclusion que lexportation demeure une bonne dmarche faire. Yala Ait Slimane: Jtais justement la foire commerciale de Canton, en Chine du Sud et jai constat que nos prix sont comptitifs. Et il ya mme une autre raison: BYA nest pas une petite entreprise; ils produisent dautres produits et ont acquit ainsi beaucoup dexprience en tant que fabricant. BYA a t cre en 1993. lpoque, Thomson existait encore en
France et BYA a commenc une chaine dassemblage de tlviseurs de Thomson. Peu de temps aprs, ils ont commenc lassemblage des rcepteurs satellite analogiques suivi quelques temps aprs par des rcepteurs numriques. lpoque, nous avions 90 employs, se souvient Slimane Ait Yala, Et nous avons eu un chiffre daffaires quivalent huit millions deuros prs. BYA a t
Slimane Ait Yala le Prsident directeur gnral (PDG) et fondateur de BYA. cette
dernire tire actuellement son nom de la localit (Ain El Bia). converti BYA
Les usines de productions

de BYA Ain El Bia lest dOran en Algrie
son apoge en 2003 quand ils ont ralis des ventes de 10 millions deuros avec 120 employs. 2003 a galement t lanne o lui et son frre Kasim ensemble, ont cr AKS (Ait-Yala Kasim Slimane). Il a galement russi prendre le relais sur lentreprise et le nom de la marque qui tait bien tablie Continental Edison. A Metz, en France, la socit continue de produire des tlviseurs et autres articles mnagers aujourdhui. BYA utilise le nom de marque Continental Edison sur sa gamme de parabole et de rcepteurs, mais avant tout, sur les tlviseurs. Le directeur de la Production de BYA M. Azzedine Maouche, nous a fourni quelques dtails supplmentaires: Nous produisons des tlviseurs LCD de 32cm et 40cm ainsi que les tlviseurs plasma de dimensions 42cm, 50cm et 60cm Il enchaine, Ils ont tous un tuner TNT intgr. Le march cibl actuellement par BYA pour sa marque Continental Edison est presque entirement en Algrie. 10% de nos produits sont expdis hors Algrie, avons-nous appris du Directeur Commercial M. Bouras Mahi, principalement vers la Tunisie et la Libye. Et cest exactement ce qui est recherch. Au premier trimestre de 2011, nous lancerons un nouveau rcepteur HD pour lexportation et nous le commercialiserons sous la marque Continental Edison. Explique Mahi Bouras qui, grce ses tudes New York, parle parfaitement lAnglais. Le gouvernement Algrien sy met galement en soutenant les efforts des industries locales pour lexportation. Le Directeur gnral M. Slimane Ait Yala, qui est trs actif dans un certain nombre
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de comits, ainsi que dans la Chambre Algrienne de Commerce, sattend une grande offensive dexportation pour 2011. Nous nous attendons tre en mesure daugmenter sensiblement nos ventes pour 2011, dit-il avec optimisme. Avec de nouveaux produits tels que lantenne parabolique perfore et leur propre rcepteur HD, il croit quil ya une bonne chance galement pour BYA devenir une grande marque ltranger avec lexpression made in Algria conqurant ainsi une reconnaissance internationale.
1. BYA veut percer dans le march de lexportation avec cette antenne perfore. Les cots de production de BYA sont tellement bas quils ne se proccupent pas de la concurrence. 2. ce rcepteur HD sera disponible en 2011. ce modle est un chantillon de prsrie. Il comprendra le HDmI, LAN et une interface USB et sera assembl par BYA pour le moment avec des composants livrs et sera intgr entirement par BYA plus tard si les ventes seront satisfaisantes 3. Azzedine maouche est le chef de production chez BYA 4. Soraya Dahmane gre les factures. 5. mahi Bouras est le directeur commercial et responsable de la commercialisation et le service des ventes de BYA 6. Rien ne peut fonctionner sans le suivi. Laoudjane Hadher ( gauche) et Yacoubi Sanaa ( droite) vrifient chaque commande et facture. 7. Ait Ali Said Belkacem est lun des quatre techniciens chez BYA qui grent le service aprs-vente et de la rparation. 8. Une vue dun atelier. Les accessoires chantillons sont faits ici ainsi que les moules de production.
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Produire une antenne de 60cm BYA

1. Les assiettes sont faites partir de cette interminable bande de tle qui est de 100cm de large et 0,5 mm dpaisseur. La premire tape consiste couper des parties de cette tle la bonne taille pour la machine presse. Les employs BYA prparent la bande de tle et 2. La coupent ici sur une longueur de 65cm 3. maintenant, sa largeur doit tre ramene 65cm. 4. Le morceau de 65cm x 65cm en tle est ensuite press dans la forme approprie avec la machine-presse. Juste aprs, les trous de fixation sont estampills dans le mtal. 5. Les formes dassiette finies sont ensuite peintes au pistolet. Un employ prend les assiettes et les accroche la ceinture du convoyeur, ensuite un autre employ les retire du convoyeur, une fois que les assiettes ont t peintes au pistolet et sches. 6. Les assiettes traversent la chambre de peinture au pistolet, puis passent dans un four. 7. maintenant, la marque est inscrite par srigraphie sur place. BYA est un fabricant OEm (fabricant dorigine) pour de nombreuses marques diffrentes; Ici dans cette photo cest mANATA. Les autres marques produites par BYA sont Aston, EcHOSTAR et mAXI POWER pour nen nommer que quelques-unes. Si vous voulez tre un de leurs clients, Il suffit de garder lesprit quil ya des commandes minimums: Nous pouvons mettre votre nom sur les antennes paraboliques avec une commande de 10.000 pices et plus, commente m. mahi Bouras, le directeur des ventes contactez nous simplement contact@bya-electronic.com 8. Opration termin ! Lahici Driss, Le directeur mcanique est satisfait de la production
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Production des supports dantenne

1.,2. Les pices issues dune longue bande de tle sont embouties. 3. Les trous sont percs ici. 4. Les pices plates de mtal sont plies en forme U; le support dassiette est termin. 5. Les brides de montage sont plies en forme ici. 6. Un employ emballe tous les accessoires de montage qui seront inclus avec lassiette 7. Les accessoires de montage pour 10 antennes sont livrs dans un seul carton
Les ateliers de production de BYA

1. Une vue de latelier de production de leur gamme de rcepteurs HD. 2. La machine SmD de Fuji est utilise pour insrer automatiquement des composants sur les circuits imprims du rcepteur HD. 3. Au fond, la bande transporteuse pour lassemblage de composants plus grands et tout au bout, il y a la station de soudage de Vitronics Soltec.
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Satellite Dealer in Russia
The Smallest Satellite Dealers in moscow

Sergey has set up his business out in Moscows south. The region is served by metro line 9 and as soon as you have climbed the stairs out of Prazhskaya station youre bang in the middle of a parking lot belonging to Electronics Paradise, the self-proclaimed largest shopping centre in Moscows south. Several hundreds of small shops are dispersed across three storeys, including some 40 dealers selling satellite components.
Sergey Kazimirovich is one of them with his TVSat-Real shop. As a matter of fact, were talking about two different companies here, he reveals. Our second business is registered under the name 1000 Channels and in addition to that we run a shop in another shopping mall as well. Incidentally, both companies have websites on the Internet at www.tvsat-real.ru www.1000kanalov.ru. and
Sergey Kazimirovich in his small shop on the lowest floor of Electronics Paradise. Together with two additional employees he sells everything to do with satellite reception.
minently on his websites, he rarely sells more than one unit a week. We believe this will change shortly, as we expect a new delivery any day. Right now Sergeys business is one of the smallest distributors: Satellite products only account for 2% of our turnover, Sergey states. But thanks to continuing advertising campaigns this is set to change. And who knows, one day the smallest satellite distributor might be right up there with the largest.
Satellite receivers have been part of our range for some time now, Sergey Kazimirovich continues. So far, however, we have only sold small numbers of them. Even though Sergey Kazimirovich features satellite receivers pro-
Leaving Prazhskaya metro station through its southern exist you will find yourself right in
the parking lot of the Electronics Paradise shopping centre. Hundreds of specialised shops have all sorts of products in store for electronics and Hi-Fi enthusiasts. The centre is open every day of the week from 10 am to 8 pm.
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Best Digital TV companies of the World
BEST DIGITAL TV COMPANIES in W EUROPE

SATSHOP24
Satellite Shop, Germany
DISHPOINTER H EESHOP HORIZON H H WORLDWIDE SATELLITE GLOBAL INVAcOm H H SmARTINNOVATIONS H SATSHOP24 H cLARK SEATEL H H SATBEAmS
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Software Programming, Belgium
SATBEAMS
www.satbeams.com
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1101/eng/satshop24.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1011/eng/satbeams.pdf
SMARTINNOVATIONS
Satellite Distributor, Netherlands
GLOBALINVACOM
Fibre Optic Products, UK
www.globalinvacom.com
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1011/eng/smartinnovations.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1009/eng/globalinvacom.pdf www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1005/eng/globalinvacom.pdf www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0909/eng/globalinvacom.pdf www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0805/eng/globalinvacom.pdf Operator Market Qualified
EESHOP
Satellite Shop, Netherlands
DISHPOINTER
Software Programming, UK
www.dishpointer.com
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1005/eng/eeshop.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0803/eng/dishpointer.pdf
WORLDWIDE SATELLITE
Satellite Shop, Netherlands
SEATEL
Maritime 3-Axis Dish Manufacture, UK
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0903/eng/worldwidesatellite.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0803/eng/seatel.pdf
CLARK
Distributor, Netherlands
HORIZON
Manufacturer of Measuring Instruments, UK
www.horizonhge.com
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0811/eng/clark.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0801/eng/horizon.pdf www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0701/eng/horizon.pdf
Operator Market Qualified
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SmARTWI
H TEcHNISAT DOEBIS H H NANOXX H H mEDIA BROADcAST GOLDEN mEDIA SmART H H SPAUN POWER GT SAT H H SPAUN
BEST DIGITAL TV COMPANIES in N EUROPE

Satellite Wholesaler, Germany
DOEBIS
www.doebis.de
Wireless Card Reader Producer, Denmark
SMARTWI
www.smartwi.net
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1011/eng/doebis.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1011/eng/smartwi.pdf www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0709/eng/smartwi.pdf
Power Supply Manufacturer, Germany
SPAUN POWER
www.spaun.com
GOLDEN MEDIA
Manufacturer and Distributor, Germany
www.cynextra.com
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1011/eng/spaun.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1009/eng/goldenmedia.pdf
MEDIA BROADCAST
Broadcasting Services, Germany
SPAUN
High Quality Accessory Manufacturer, Germany
www.spaun.com
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1009/eng/mediabroadcast.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0811/eng/spaun.pdf
SMART
Receiver Manufacturer, Germany
GT SAT
LNB Distributor, Luxembourg
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0901/eng/smart.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0805/eng/gtsat.pdf
NANOXX
Wholesaler and Receiver Manufacturer, Germany
TECHNISAT
TV Manufacturer, Germany
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0901/eng/nanoxx.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0709/eng/technisat.pdf
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NETUP
AB-cOm H
H H
ABc BIZNIS AmIKO
STAB
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AZBOX H
PROmAX
ANTEcH
BEST DIGITAL TV COMPANIES in S/E EUROPE

Receiver Manufacturer, Hungary
AMIKO
www.amikostb.com
Company Details
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0................................ 10 ...................20 Mio uro

Production Certificates
ISO, RoHS, DVB

own brands AMIKO, SYNAPS - cooperation with FULAN

Main Products
Receiver for DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/MPEG-4, DVB-C, award winning product Dual Boot Linux receiver for DVB-S/S2 and DVB-T
NETUP
IPTV Software and Hardware Producer, Russia
Satellite Receiver Manufacturer, Slovakia
AB-COM
www.abcomeu.com
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1101/eng/netup.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1009/eng/abipbox.pdf
AZBOX
Satellite Receiver Manufacturer, Portugal
www.azbox.com
ANTECH
Uplink Technology, Italy
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1001/eng/azbox.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0809/eng/antech.pdf
PROMAX
Accessory Manufacturer, Spain
STAB
Antenna Motor Manufacturer, Italy
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0909/eng/promax.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0809/eng/stab.pdf
ABC BIZNIS
Satellite Receiver Manufacturer, Slovakia
www.abcbiznis.sk
OPERATOR MARKET Qualified

Classification for Best Digital TV Companies
Attributes of Qualified Company:

High Production Volume Quality Controlled Customized Product Case Customized Product Software Aftersale Service
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0903/eng/abcbiznis.pdf
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BEST DIGITAL TV COMPANIES in MIDDLE EAST

ATLANTA
Satellite Wholesaler, UAE
YAHYA
H H H
ATLANTA cOmINTOUcH EcHOLINK
ECHOLINK
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1007/eng/atlanta.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1007/eng/echolink.pdf
COMINTOUCH
YAHYA
Software Programming, KSA
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1007/eng/comintouch.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0911/eng/yahya.pdf
cOmPANIES OVERVIEW
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BYA
BOmARE
BEST DIGITAL TV COMPANIES in MAGHREB

BYA
Dish and Receiver Manufacturer, Algeria www.bya-electronic.com
Company Details
0................................ 75 .................................150
0.................................. 5 ...................10 Mio uro

RoHS, DVB
OEM, ODM
Main Products
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1107/eng/bya.pdf
Satellite Dishes with Full and Perforated Metal (60, 105 and 120cm), TV-Sets with CRT, LCD (32 and 40 inch) or Plasma (42 and 50 inch), Satellite Receiver for DVB-S/S2
BOMARE
TV and Receiver Manufacturer, Algeria
www.bomarecompany.com
Company Details
0................................ 75 .................................150
0............................. 12.5 ...................25 Mio uro

RoHS, DVB
OEM, ODM
Main Products
LCD and Plasma TV-Sets with integrated DVB-Tuner, Satellite Receiver for DVB-S/S2, DVB-T, Home Theatre Systems
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1103/eng/bomare.pdf
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YONGSAN H NASA cNS H
H H H
TOPFIELD ARION SEKISAT
BEST DIGITAL TV COMPANIES in TAIWAN, KOREA

PC Card & Receiver Manufacturer, Taiwan
H H H
TEVII AZURESHINE mOTEcK
TEVII
www.tevii.com
Company Details
0................................ 25 ...................................50
0............................... 2.5 ..................... 5 Mio US$

RoHS
OEM, ODM
Main Products
PC Cards for DVB-S/S2 and DVB-T/MPEG-4, Boxes for DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/MPEG-4, PC Sticks for DVB-S/S2
Professional Dish Manufacturer, Taiwan
AZURESHINE
www.azureshine.com.tw
Antenna Motor Manufacturer, Taiwan
MOTECK
www.moteck.com
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0707/eng/azureshine.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0707/eng/moteck.pdf
TOPFIELD
High-End Receiver Manufacturer, Korea
YONGSAN
Satellite Shop, Korea
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0905/eng/topfield.pdf www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0801/eng/topfield.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/eng/koreasatshop.pdf
ARION
High Quality Receiver Manufacturer, Korea
NASA CNS
Satellite Wholesaler, Korea
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0903/eng/arion.pdf www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0801/eng/arion.pdf www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0701/eng/arion.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0805/eng/nasacns.pdf

SEKISAT
Satellite Wholesaler, Korea

www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0801/eng/sekisat.pdf
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DEVISER
YINHE H BOXSAm
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SVEc
PREVAIL
BEST DIGITAL TV COMPANIES in CHINA

DEVISER
SKYWORTH GLOBALSAT TRImAX BOIINGSAT H
H H H
H H H H H
JIUZHOU SOWELL TENOW JIUZHOU ALUOSAT
www.devisertek.com
Company Details
0.............................. 250 .................................500

0............................. 12.5 ................... 25 Mio US$

RoHS, CE, UL, ISO 10012, ISO 90001

OEM, own brand

Main Products
Signal Analyzers for Cable, Terrestrial, Telecommunications, Fiber Optic and Satellite, Spektrum Analyzers, Vector Network Analyzers, Broadcasting Measurement Instruments, QAM Meters
Fiber Optic and CATV Manufacturer, China
PREVAIL
www.prevail-catv.com
Company Details
0.............................. 250 .................................500

0............................. 12.5 ...................25 Mio uro

RoHS
OEM
Main Products
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1105/eng/prevail.pdf
Fiber Optic Nodes and Systems, Optical Receivers and Transmitters, CATV Equipment, Bi-directional Network Transmission Equipment, Head-Ends, Splitters, Taps
JIUZHOU
Receiver Manufacturer, China
www.jiuzhou.com.cn
SVEC
Professional Dish Manufacturer, China
www.svec.com.cn
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1003/eng/jiuzhou.pdf www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0903/eng/jiuzhou.pdf www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0803/eng/jiuzhou.pdf www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0703/eng/jiuzhou.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1003/eng/svec.pdf
BOXSAM
Receiver Manufacturer, China
www.boxsam.com
ALUOSAT
Satellite Consultant, China
www.aluosat.com
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1009/eng/boxsam.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0905/eng/aluosat.pdf
YINHE
High Volume Receiver Manufacturer, China


www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1007/eng/yinhe.pdf
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cOmPANIES OVERVIEW
BOIINGSAT
LNB Manufacturer, China
www.boiingsat.com
Company Details
0.............................. 500 ...............................1000

0............................. 12.5 ................... 25 Mio US$

RoHS in preparation
Main Products
LNBs for Ku and C bands, Ka band in preparation. Variants in Single, Twin, Quad, Quattro and Octo.
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1105/eng/boiingsat.pdf
TENOW
PC Card Manufacturer, China
www.tenower.com
Company Details
0................................ 12 ...................................25
0............................... 1.5 .....................3 Mio uro

RoHS, DVB
Main Products
PC-Cards for DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2, DVB-C with single, dual and quad tuner, CAM Box for DVB-S2, USB-Stick for DVB-S/S2, DVBC and ISDB-T
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1103/eng/tenow.pdf
OEM Receiver Manufacturer, China
SKYWORTH
www.skyworth.com
Company Details
0............................ 1250 ...............................2500

0........................... 1.250 ................. 250 Mio US$

RoHS, CE, REACH, DVB

Main Products
Receiver for DVB-S/S2, DVB-T, ISDB-T with single, twin and combo tuner, Receiver Sticks for USB, SCART in DVB-S and HDMI in DVB-S2
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1103/eng/skyworth.pdf www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1003/eng/skyworth.pdf
GLOBALSAT
Receiver Mass Manufacturer, China
www.globalsatdvb.com
Company Details
0.............................. 125 .................................250

0................................ 75 ................. 150 Mio US$

RoHS, FCC, UL, CE, DVB, ISO

Main Products
Receiver for HDTV and SDTV in DVB-S/S2, DVB-T, DVB-C, ISDBT, HD+, CI+ and HbbTV, Multimedia Receiver, IPTV Boxes, Media Player
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1103/eng/globalsat.pdf
TRIMAX
www.trimaxtec.com
Company Details
0................................ 25 ...................................50
0.................................. 1 ..................... 2 Mio US$

RoHS, FCC, DVB

Main Products
Signal Analyzer with built-in Monitor for DVB-S/S2, DVB-T and DVB-C
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1103/eng/trimax.pdf
SOWELL
OEM Receiver Manufacturer, China
www.sowell-tech.com
Company Details
0................................ 50 .................................100
0................................ 25 ................... 50 Mio US$

DVB
Main Products
Receiver for DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2, DVB-C and ISDB-T, Receivers with 3D graphics
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1103/eng/sowell.pdf
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cOmPANIES OVERVIEW
SATmAN
SEATEL
H H
FORTEcSTAR H H WORLDWIDE SATELLITES H mFc SADOUN H cOWmIX

H H
BEST DIGITAL TV COMPANIES in AMERICA

GLOBAL SATELLITE
Satellite Dealer, USA
SONIcVIEW H QUALITY SATELLITE H
GLOBAL SATELLITE SEATEL
COWMIX
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1007/eng/globalsatellite.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1003/eng/cowmix.pdf
QUALITY SATELLITE
SEATEL
Maritime 3-Axis Dish Manufacturer, USA
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1005/eng/qualitysatellite.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0911/eng/seatel.pdf www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0901/eng/seatel.pdf
WORLDWIDE SATELLITES
Satellite Wholesaler, Canada
SADOUN
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0905/eng/worldwidesatellites.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0707/eng/sadoun.pdf
SONICVIEW
Satellite Receiver Manufacturer, USA
SATMAN
Satellite Dealer, Canada
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0903/eng/sonicview.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0705/eng/satman.pdf
MFC
Satellite Filter Manufacturer, USA
www.microwavefilter.com
FORTECSTAR
Receiver Manufacturer, Canada
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0903/eng/mfc.pdf
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0705/eng/fortecstar.pdf
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FEATURE
HDTV copyright management
HDTV
Encryption
prevents unauthorised distribution of HDTV content gives TV providers full control over content blocks many popular features such as time-shift viewing and PVR functions for customers
175
FEATURE
HDTV copyright management
cI+ / HD+
Whats the big deal? Is there a hidden agenda? Whats the difference between the two?
Thomas Haring
It goes without saying that many end users actually use those features, burn their own DVDs and pass them on to others a fact that truly annoys copyright owners who in turn exert pressure on content providers. Content providers are also faced with pressure from their advertising clients who argue that owners of PVR receivers have become a virtually irrelevant target group. So all players on the providing end of the chain agreed on one thing: Something had to change! The introduction of HDTV channels presented the perfect occasion to act. sure paid for content is decrypted at the customers end. A so-called CI module (a PCMCIA module as we know it from the PC world) is used in combination with a valid smartcard to decrypt the digital stream received via satellite, cable or antenna. The CI module needs to be inserted into the receivers CI slot and together with a smartcard issued by the content provider becomes the access point for pay TV reception. With a valid smartcard and a CI module that is compatible with the encryption system implemented by the provider, pay TV content is encrypted and appears on the screen of authorised subscribers. If one of these conditions is not met, however, all you see is a blank screen. There are no further control mechanisms in place for pay TV providers with the conventional CI standard. The DVB Consortium has been working on a revised CI version for years to offer new and more restrictive control mechanisms for pay TV providers the name they chose was CI 2.0, but the project got stuck on a treadmill and some providers as well as industry representatives finally took a decision to develop their own system: This is how the CI+ standard came about with CAM manufacturers Neotion and SmarDTV as well as electronics giants Panasonic, Philips, Samsung and Sony being the driving forces behind that move. Whats new with CI+? What are the benefits and drawbacks for end users? Lets begin with a positive note: CI+ is fully based on the CI standard, which means it does not establish a new standard but rather adds features to an existing one. Those extra features, on the
Is CI+ a must have for new receivers? This is a question that bothers end users and manufacturers alike, even though for different reasons. Users want to know whether or not it makes sense to go out and purchase one of the new CI+ models on shelves everywhere, while for manufacturers it all boils down to simple maths: Can I make money with CI+ receivers? The CI+ initiative is driven by content providers. Film studios and TV channels have been faced with illegal content distribution (unauthorised DVD copying, illegal pay TV reception, etc.) for some time, as well as with gradually eroding advertising revenue. The advent of PVR receivers further accelerated that trend as these devices allow lossless storing of content on internal or external storage media. Content can then easily be burnt on DVD, for example. Whats more, PVR receivers usually come with a time-shift viewing feature which in turn means commercial breaks can be conveniently skipped.
When digital television via satellite, cable and antenna (DVB-S, DVB-C and DVB-T) was launched the DVB Consortium (an association of more than 270 channels, manufacturers, pay TV providers and representatives from industry) at the same time introduced the CI standard. It takes care of copyright protection (rights management) and makes
cI+
User features such as PVR functionality may be temporary or permanently blocked by

the cI+ standard.
other hand, include numerous restrictions for users. The whole sphere of encryption was left untouched, but with CI+ so-called usage rule information (URI) can be added to the DVB-S, DVB-C or DVB-T datastream. CI+ receivers are able (more precisely: must be able) to recognise URI and follow its rules accordingly. The following restrictions can be imposed with CI+: digital recording of received content can be totally restricted digital recording of received content can be partially restricted (restrictions for certain events, channels, etc.) rewinding and fast forwarding of recorded content can by restricted during playback time-shift viewing can be restricted the Macrovision copy protection signal can be activated at the euroscart output of the receiver recorded content can be paired to a receiver so that it can only be played back on that particular device content providers are able to put receivers out of operation after unauthorised changes to the operating system have been made be a user CI+ invariably decrypts only one event at a time it is not possible to decrypt two events simultaneously HD content can only be put out to HDCP compatible devices as well as the following most significant modifications: the datastream as received from the provider is decrypted by the CI+ module, but encrypted again immediately so that the data transmitted through a USB, Firewire or any other data interface is encrypted and therefore cannot be saved on DVD, for example. How should end users react to CI+? First and foremost the question is one of personal necessity. You dont receive pay TV or HDTV and have no intention of subscribing in future? In that case
you couldnt care less about CI+. Content that is currently free-to-air will most probably stay that way. Hardly a channel could afford changing completely from FTA to CI+ without causing uproar. It can be assumed that SD offerings will stay unencrypted, while new HD channels will happily implement the CI+ standard. So even if you are perfectly satisfied with your personal status quo, you may want to upgrade your equipment to HD standard in future, which is when you might be faced with CI+. Subscribers of pay TV need not waste too many thoughts on CI+, since they use provider-supplied set-top boxes in most cases anyway. Is an old CI receiver compatible with CI+? Is there any point in buying a non-CI+ receiver anymore? As mentioned above, CI+ is based on the conventional CI standard, which is why chances are many CI receivers can be upgraded to CI+ compatibility with new software. Some manufacturers even provide firmware updates to add CI+ to their receivers. We should not fail to emphasise that CI+ has absolutely nothing to with the encryption of the DVB datastream. Providers may select an encryption system of their choosing irrespective of whether or not they implement CI+. The same is true for DVB-S2, SVB-C2 or DVB-T2, all of which are independent of any CI+ features. This means that a CI+ receiver can handle all DVB formats depending on the built-in tuner(s). So whats the connection with HD+? HD+ is a subsidiary of European satellite operator SES Astra and focuses on marketing high-definition TV. The company is currently active only in Germany and is the legal successor of the
Provider HD+ Kabel Deutschland Caiway Delta Kabel Noord Ziggo UPC Nederland Boxer Com Hem Telednya Cablecom Top Up TV country Germany Germany Netherlands Netherlands Netherlands Netherlands Netherlands Sweden Sweden Turkey Switzerland Great Britain X X X X X X X
failed Entavio project, which had been launched initially by SES Astra as a new TV platform. At the moment, the HD+ platform carries the HD channels of major German commercial networks (RTL HD, RTL II HD, VOX HD, Pro7 HD, Sat.1 HD, Kabel1 HD) as well as special interest channels six HD and Sport1 HD. Austria and Switzerland are next on the expansion map of HD+ and will be covered shortly, while in future SES Astra hopes to offer HD+ in other countries as well. From a technical perspective, HD+ is mainly based on dedicated HD+ receivers with built-in smartcard reader. HD receivers that are compatible with CI+, may also be used for receiving HD+ channels. CI+ and HD+ are frequently mentioned in the same breath, even though all they really share is the + symbol in their names. What is true, however, is the fact that HD+ was one of the first major platforms to use CI+. However, features such as automatic channel list management and channel list updates (see Jaeger HD+ 2011 test report in TELE-satellite 12-01/2011) are HD+ features that have nothing to do with CI+.
What the future holds
In many cases, HDTV channels will select an encryption standard that blocks the distribution of received content. As CI+ is one such technology it will gain further ground in the HDTV segment. European viewers in particular will be forced to look at this topic one way or the other.
CI+ specifications: www.ci-plus.com/data/ ci-plus_specification_v1.2.pdf
cI+ planned for future use X Distribution satellite cable cable cable cable cable X cable terrestrial cable satellite X X cable terrestrial
cI+ currently used X
FEATURE
Tuner Secrets
What's inside a silicon tuner?

Jacek Pawlowski
a silicon tuner is a significant technological improvement that finds its way into nearly every new product in digital TV equipment
It is not only cheaper and much smaller but guarantees better performance if applied correctly - see our Feature Story in TELE-satellite 02-03/2011. Does this integrated circuit (which a silicon tuner in fact is) have innovative internal architecture that makes all this possible? Well, from the top level perspective, a silicon tuner has a rather typical front end architecture similar to a modern radio circuit. It is called the direct conversion or zero IF architecture and is quite popular especially in digital communication circuits. But, as usually, the devil is in the details. Lets take as an example the simplified architecture of the AT810 chip of company Abilis Systems - see Figure 1. AT810 is a terrestrial TV tuner compatible with DVB-T/T2, ISDB-T, CMMB and DTMB/GB 20600-2006 standards. The first stage of AT810 is a relatively low gain radio frequency (RF) amplifier followed by a tracking bandpass filter. The filter attenuates the interfering signals originating for example from GSM, or WiFi devices by about 60 dB. Thats a lot. The filter is automatically programmed by the on-board microprocessor depending on the currently selected TV channel. The RF amplifier, except for amplifying the signal by approximately 20 dB, provides additionally a loopthrough output what is very desirable in double tuner TV receivers. For the best performance of the TV tuner, this amplifier not only must have a very low noise coefficient but it must be able to handle large signals without entering into the non-linear region of its characteristics. Technical people say that such amplifier has a large dynamic range.
After the RF amplifier and the bandpass filter we have the essence of a direct conversion circuit: two balanced mixers fed with local oscillator signals of the same frequency but shifted by 90. It is sometimes said that those mixers are fed with sine and cosine signals because the cosine waveform is identical to the sine shifted by 90. The frequency of the local oscillator (LO) should be equal to the frequency of the received TV channel. In this way, at the outputs of the mixers, we get the modulating signal shifted in phase by 90. Such signals are called the I and Q vectors. The letters come from the In-phase and Quadrature terms. I and Q signals are then amplified and unwanted products of the signal conversion are removed in the low pass filters located in both signal paths. The filters need to be very sharp because otherwise we would get interference from the adjacent signals. After the filters, there are the amplifiers of variable gain that enable automatic gain control (AGC). Thanks to the AGC, both weak and strong input signals produce similar signal level at the output of AT810. If the signal is weak, the gain of the amplifiers is set high, and if the signal is strong, the gain is set low. Once we have I and Q signals, the next step is to convert them to digital form in analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). However, the ADCs are part of a digital signal processor not the part of a silicon tuner. Having digital-
ized I and Q vectors, we can do all the magic reserved for digital signal processing like: very good filtering, demodulation, moving from time domain to frequency domain (with the help of Fast Fourier Transform) and much more. Perhaps it will be a surprise for some of the readers to learn that with the digitalized I and Q signals, we can quite simply demodulate also analog TV signals (classical AM modulation). However, the very first step must be to achieve good quality I and Q signals. And this good quality was until recently posing real problems for the chip manufacturers. Except for having very good initial RF amplifier, we also need very good mixers. By very good, we again mean sub-circuits of high dynamic range. But thats not all. Both mixers and all the sub-circuits after them: amplifiers, low pass filters and AGC amplifiers must be identical in I and Q path. Even a small difference in gains or a small phase shift between them would ruin the performance of the direct conversion circuit. Such symmetry requires a very well controlled chip manufacturing process and is not so easy to achieve. Fortunately, the engineers from Abilis like their colleagues from a couple of other competitive companies succeeded in that. Thanks to them, the digital TV receiver designers got a new building blocks silicon tuners - that enable them to develop better, smaller and cheaper settop-boxes.
Fig. 1. Simplified block diagram of AT810 silicon tuner of Agilis.
FEATURE
Satellite Technology
Jacek Pawlowski
How many SD/HD channels can we get from one transponder?

and the bit rate. The Y axis scale has been chosen so that you can easily calculate the number of channels. So the scale has either a unit of 4 Mb/ sec or 10 Mb/s. Use the first graph to find a number of SD MPEG channels transmitted via DVB-S transponder. On X axis find the point equal to the transponder symbol rate and draw a vertical line upwards until it crosses the line corresponding with transponder FEC. From the crossing point, move horizontally towards Y axis to find the value of the bit rate that can be achieved for that symbol rate and FEC. Next count how many 4 Mb/ sec steps you can make from zero to the found bit rate. This is the number of good quality SD channels encoded with MPEG-2 you can transmit via the DVB-S transponder. For example if SR=27.5 MS/sec and FEC=3/4, you will get over 40 Mb/sec what corresponds to 10 good quality SD channels. The second graph lets you calculate how many HD channels you can send via the same DVB-S transponder. Please mind that now we assume MPEG-4 compression. If this is still MPEG-2, the number of channels will be twice as low. In the same example as
Everybody who ever studied satellite charts with transponder data knows that the symbol rate of a transponder is one of its most important parameters. And thats not only because you need to know it to set the data in manual channel search in your receiver. Symbol rate directly affects the amount of useful data that can be transmitted via a transponder. The higher it is, the more data can be sent. More data means more TV and radio channels.
But can you exactly tell how many TV channels one can send through a transponder having a given symbol rate? Well, the exact answer is: no, we can not tell it with absolute exactness, but we can estimate the number of channels with reasonable accuracy. Why is that so? The main reason is: we can not say precisely how many bits per second will be needed for a given channel. Channel bit rate changes depending on how dynamic its content is. Moreover, the DVB standard allows the service providers to choose between different video resolutions and different MPEG compression levels. If you have a good satellite signal analyzer, you can check for yourself that SDTV channel have average bit rates ranging from 1.5 Mb/sec to 6 Mb/sec (peaking even to 7 Mb/sec). Of course, the quality of a channel transmitted with 1.5 or 2 Mb/sec is very poor the picture is foggy and sometimes you can notice compression artifacts. On the other hand, high quality SD channels like for example ZDF channel on ASTRA 19.2 E, have so good picture quality that when received with a set-top-box with an upscaler, you have the impression it is an HD channel. To achieve this, you need about 6 Mb/sec video bit rate. The majority of the channels with acceptable quality have 3.5-4 Mb/sec video bit rate. Because audio occupies usually 0.256 Mb/sec, one can assume that on the average 4 Mb/sec is need for a good (but not the best) quality SDTV channel. This is true for MPEG-2 compression which is still in use for the vast majority of SD channels. But what about HDTV channels? Well, they need much more bits per seconds. One can assume about 15-20 Mb/sec for a HD channel compressed with classical MPEG-2 but only 10 Mb/sec if more modern H.264 (MPEG-4) is used. More and more HD channels move from MPEG-2 compression to MPEG-4. You know, the bandwidth is costly... Once that we did the assumption on the required bit rate for an MPEG-2 SD channel and MPEH-4 HD channel (4 and 10 Mb/sec respectively), we can calculate how many channels one can send through a transponder of a given symbol rate. Except for the symbol rate, we need to take into account if it is DVB-S or DVB-S2 and what is the FEC value. The higher the FEC, the more efficient transmission, i.e. the higher usable bit rate for a given symbol rate. In the three graphs, you can see the relationship between transponder symbol rate, FEC
Graph 1. Bitrate vs. Symbol Rate and FEC for DVB-S

Note: 4 Mb/sec = 1 MPEG-2 SD channel of good quality
56,0 52,0 48,0 44,0 40,0
above, you will find that 4 HD channels are possible with this transponder. But what about DVB-S2? It becomes more and more popular. We prepared the third graph, this time only for the HD channels (but you can multiply the result by 2.5 to get the number of MPEG-2 SD channels). We have chosen only the most popular combinations of modulation type (QPSK/8PSK) and FEC values. Drawing all possible combinations would make the graphs completely unreadable. For the same exemplary symbol 30,0 rate 27.5 Ms/sec, we can use 8PSK modulation and FEC=3/4 in DVB-S2 to get the usable bit rate over 60 Mb/ sec what would enable us to transmit even 6 HD channels. However you should be aware that the 8PSK and high FEC values require higher power to guarantee the same noise margin at the end user reception system. So, only the transponder on a satellite capable of providing enough power from its solar panels can be used in 8PSK mode with high FEC value. Thats the physical limitation. In the old days of analog TV, one could precisely tell how many channels you can transmit in a given bandwidth, but not today. In a real world, you can see quite often a combination of HD/SD channels and TV/radio channels transmitted through the same transponder. Channels differ in bit rates (and in this way in quality), so there is no way to say precisely how many channels we can expect assuming given bandwidth.
Usable Bit Rate [Mb/sec]
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Symbol Rate [Ms/sec]

FEC=1/2 FEC=2/3 FEC=3/4 FEC=5/6 FEC=7/8
Graph 2. Bitrate vs. Symbol Rate and FEC for DVB-S

Note: 10 Mb/sec = 1 MPEG-4 HD channel
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FEC=1/2 FEC=2/3 FEC=3/4 FEC=5/6 FEC=7/8
Graph 3. Bit Rate vs. Modulation and FEC for DVB-S2

Note: 10 Mb/sec = 1 MPEG-4 HD channel
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However, after reading this article you know what kind of video quality you can expect for example from a trans30,0 ponder filled with 20 channels and having SR=27500 3/4.
cOUNTRY REPORT
Satellite TV in Iran
Dishes in Iran
by A.G.
For preparing this report Ive interviewed more than 20 persons, who are dish installers, website and weblog owners, receiver and dish sellers and finally receiver servicemen. They all face many problems and we go this in a minute. In accordance to a decision by the Iranian government, selling, buying, installing, repairing and even the possession of satellite dishes are forbidden and against the law, but obviously there are many people in Iran, who watch satellite tv. In fact, the number of Iranians, who decide to use a satellite systems, has even rapidly increased.
This is the 190cm mesh dish of Daryoush in Tehran/ Iran. He has pointed his dish to YAmAL at 90E and receives that satellites 47 tv channels. Daryoush uses a satellite receiver by Starsat, model X95. He uses a STRONG L972 LNB.
The roofs of Tehran (eastern part). How

many dishes do you see? We counted 40, some are only partly visible. Hiding a dish is the best option in Iran.
People in Iran use, sell, buy and even install dishes discreetly. They mostly set up dishes on roofs and balconies and hide the system, if its visible from the street. Legislators defined, that only Iranian telecommunication companies, the state-owned braodcaster IRIB, newspapers, banks, scientific and governmental associations are eligible to officially use satellite systems. But for common people, any type of transaction or possession of satellite reception equipment is forbidden and illegal. This is somehow even contradicting,
because Iran has a very active history of space activities: Oct 2005: a Russian rocket launches Irans first satellite SINA-1 Feb 2007: Iran announced it launched a rocket capable of reaching space Feb 2008: Iran launched a research rocket as part for satellite launch preparations Aug 2008: Iran launched a rocket capable of carrying satellite Feb 2009: Iran declares launch of its first home-built satellite So although the regime in Iran has
started some activities in the satellite world, it is still blocking channels and tries hard to prevent people from watching satellite tv. The Iranian government even so far and sat up large transmitters on high positions in various cities to disturb the transmission frequencies of Persian speaking satellite channels, mostly coming from Europe via HOTBIRD. All of the people I interviewed were 20 to 30 years old and only one of them was 45 year old. As they themselves said, they had entered the satel-
A wall around the roof helps

to make dishes invisible
Dishes in Iran blend in with the color of the buildings and roofs
lite world in average between 2 to 12 years ago. Mohsen from Tehran said: I started with satellite installation, when I was only 10 years old. All my family members were interested in my work and were sitting, watching me working. Although satellite receivers are illegal in the country, they are still widely available. There are even a lot of satellite fans in Iran. Its an interesting point, that almost all of the interviewees have studied or are studying in courses which are not related to electronics or communication, for example some took courses such as accounting, agronomy and fishing, chemistry, English translation and so on. They simply got involved in satellite reception because of their strong interest in satellite channels. One of my interview partners was Milad, who was the youngest, 20 years old, and he said: I really love satellite. Another one, Mokhtar: I do it as an entertainment and have the love of doing this. As mentioned before, the government blocks Iranians access to foreign news and political networks such as the BBC Persian Service and the Voice of America (VOA). According to my survey, the least jamming takes place in the Markazi Province, whilst in Shiraz and Tehran the signal distortion is highest. Mehdi, an installer and a serviceman from Shiraz: These parasite signals are really annoying and they disable the receivers. Now a closer look at dish installers in Iran. On average, an installer does 5-6 dish installations or adjustments in a week. Mohsen from Lorestan, who is working in this field for 9 years since he turned 16 years old, said: I have 10 to 15 installations in a day. Almost all of the installers do their work and the dish adjusting as a hobby or fun. All of them said, they are crazy about satellite tv and also because in most Iranian families, the younger members have learned to setup their own satellite systems. Among those almost 20 persons I interviewed, only Davood from Arak and Mehdi from Shiraz do it as their first job - although it cannot be named as a formal job in Iran. According to Mehdis affirms: My life expenses can hardly be provided with this job. Davood claimed: Im married and our cost of living is not provided at all. After 12 years I cannot change my job. Only these two persons also were selling receivers, dishes and LNB. Milad from Khozestan said: My cousin works in a Oil Company, but he does installations as a second job. Its interesting that although he is an employee in a state-owned company, he does something against the governmental law and secretly installs dishes. The most favorite satellites in Iran, which the installers have been asked to install, are HOTBIRD (at 13.0 degrees East), EUTELSAT W3 (for BBC Persian), ARABSAT (at 26.0 E), TURKSAT (at 42.0 E), NILESAT (at 7.0 W), SIRISU and recently provincial channels on INTELSAT 902 (62.0 E) gained some friends. The brand of receivers people are using depends on each city, because there are different sources that distribute receivers, dishes and LNBs, so each city takes it from the nearest source. For example
in Markazi Province (Arak) most of the receivers are of the STARSAT brand. Esmail from Tehran: In capital cities like Tehran you can find many different brands of receivers such as ICLASS and HIGHVISION. Morteza from Lorestan: Before all the receivers were by STARSAT, but now more brands appear. About gaining new clients Amir said: Customers themselves find us. For example when they are satisfied with my work, they recommend me to their friends, families or neighbors. Milad from Khozestan: We dont need any kind of advertisement and even dont try for it. Yasin from Yazd: Im a student and install dishes for students for free. Ahmad said: I do it only for those who I know, like my families and close friends. In Tehran you can find both offset and prime dishes and some of them even mounted on a motor, but in smaller cities or far from a source to provide a receiver, dish or other equipment, people only use prime fixed dishes
(mostly 95cm in diameter) and hardly ever one finds an offset dish. In general, most dishes used in Iran are very simple and cheap metallic models, which are self-made in small workshops. The risk for the equipment to be confiscated or destroyed is too big, this is the reason why most people prefer not to spend too much money for their satellite system. The cost of installation in Iran, like the brand of receivers, is different in each city and even in each region of a city, but generally its from 5 U.S. Dollars up to 20 for setting up a satellite dish. So how does the equipment arrive in Iran? Alireza said: My cousin imports receivers and all whats needed from Dubai to the free zone in Kish Island and then brings them to Tehran to sell to others or use for his own installations. I heard this statement from several others too. Mokhtar from Kermanshah said: Here is a border region and we get all our equipment from the Baneh Border. Receivers are smuggled from Dubai and the Emirates to Kish
Island in Iran and even via the Soleimanieh Border in Iraq to Genaveh Port in Iran and then the equipment is brought to capital cities like Tehran, Esfahan and Shiraz and from there again spread to other cities. So you can only find wholesaler in these big cities, especially in Tehran. But all of them work in privacy and you never would find any LNB or any receivers brand in shop windows. Dishes in Iran are made in underground workshops or places, which manufacture pans especially in big cities such as Tehran, Shiraz, Esfahan. In recent years after Tehran, Shiraz has became one of the biggest sources where could find anything related to satellite in the Electronic Bazaar. The interesting point in this report is that almost all the interviewees have learned adjusting and installing satellite dishes from the Internet, including reading the Persian edition of TELE-satellite magazine. Besides the Internet, some of them had the help of a friend or family member skillful in this field.
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Milad: I have a cousin who is very professional in satellites. Alongside the Internet Ive learned what I know by the help of him. Mehdi from Shiraz who started this job when he was only 18, said about his competitors: In Shiraz you can find more than 10 wholesalers. There are a lot of installers in Shiraz maybe more than thousand, but I cant rank them. There isnt competition between us to gain clients, we all work together friendly. Milad from Khozestan: I can say that people who work in this state are the best, number one in Iran. When I asked Davood from Arak how many installers are in his city, he only laughed! I asked the installers, sellers and website owners, if they are under pressure or limitations by their families and what was thinkable here is that most of their parents are not aware or disagree with their activities in satellite tv. Alireza from Tehran is a young boy from a religious and famous family. His parents are not aware their son is a satellite installer. X from Esfahan said: I dont care what my parents say, in my view its an art. Amir from Kerman: My parents are well-known in my city and Ive not let them know that, although Im a student Im an installer too. Maybe it would be bad for their name in my city. There are a lot of sites and weblogs and even electronic magazines about satellite in Iran. Saeed from Esfahan who is editor of one of the best electronic magazines and weblog in Iran said: We are an eight-person group. I myself spend half of my day working and another half working on the satellite group completely for free. He continued: A strong feeling of love guides us through this way. When I asked his thoughts or ideas about the future of satellite tv in Iran he answered: The government should accept the reality and its better to leave them alone, who are active and interested in this field. Other interviewees said the same and most of them had a hopefull view about the future of satellite reception in Iran. Sadegh from Kerman: They will be forced to accept this situation which is out of control for lawmakers. It is obvious that police raids and fines have not stopped dishes
mehdi in Shiraz just installed this dish on a balcony, invisible from the street
springing up like mushrooms on the roofs of homes especially in the big cities. All of the website owners were complaining about filtering on the Iinternet. One of them said (for his security he asked me not to mention his name and website address): We were repeatedly threatened but still continue this way. Now we are a big group because after 4 years we have 140000 users. Another site owner said: The government has to accept our activities. To prevent backgtracking I always enter my website by a London IP so Ill never be arrested by the police. Davood from Arak said: At least once a year Im arrested by the police guard and have to pay different amounts of fines from 200 thousand Toman to 3 Million Toman. The amount of the fine is different in each city. Alireza from Esfahan: I was several times arrested, the police confiscated all my equipment and fined me more than the amount of all my materials. Saeed from Esfahan: They rushed into my house, seized and confiscated all my works equipments then penalized me. Recently a satellite TV station, Farsi 1, is pulling in Iranian viewers by showing soaps and sitcoms but has incensed the dissatisfaction of the clergymen and state television executives. Farsi 1 broadcasts popular Korean, Colombian and U.S. shows and also dubs them in our national language, Farsi, rather than using subtitles. Its popularity has increased since its launch in August last year. The stateowned Iran TV has reacted and started to produce more attractive TV programs, popular homegrown comedies and soaps to catch the viewers and avoid them watching Farsi 1. Officials acknowledge that they jam many foreign channels, but Farsi 1, which operates out of the Hong Kong-based headquarters of Star TV, is still receivable in Tehran. According to this research, unofficial reports and statistics, the number of satellite dishes in Iran is more than 8 millions. It can be estimated that around 85% of the population have access to satellite channels. This percentage is up to 95% in the southern and border regions. The increasing number of users has lowered the sensitivity of the officials and it seems that they unofficially decided to be more tolerant and patient against satellite reception in Iran.
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UNITED KINGDOM VIRGIN MEDIA ADDS SKY ARTS HD

Virgin Media has boosted its HD channel offering, with the two Sky Arts channels. Virgin Medias channel line-up now includes 19 HD channels available at no extra cost for a total of 31 HD channels, with the addition of Sky 1 Arts HD and Sky Arts 2 HD. Sky is currently market leader with more than 50 HD channels, with Virgin Media a clear second in the market.
MOLDTELECOM SELECTS ENTONE HDTV BOX
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EUROPE
PENTHOUSE, HUSTLER LAUNCH 3D CHANNELS
Moldtelecom has selected Entones Amulet HD IPTV Receiver as part of preparations for the launch of HD content on its IPTV service. Entones Amulet IPTV Receivers offer modular DVR storage options via USB and eSATA ports, and support a range of content formats including MPEG-4 (AVC/H.264), MPEG-2, VC-1, DivX, Dolby Digital, Windows Media, and MP3.
Adult programmers Penthouse and Hustler have launched 3D TV channels in Europe. Penthouse 3D is available on Astra satellite platform, airing from 23.00 to 05.00, and has already signed its first carriage deal with French IPTV platform Free. For its part, Hustler uses the Hotbird satellite and discussions are underway for carriage agreements.
THE NETHERLANDS EREDIVISIE LIVE MIGRATES TO HD WITH GRASS VALLEY
SONY TO BRING WIMBLEDON IN 3D
FINLAND FINNISH CHANNELS LAUNCH HDTV VERSIONS
Eredivisie Live has migrated to HD for the 2010/2011 season and the broadcasters new play-out center uses Grass Valley K2 Summit media servers. Alongside the Dutch Premier League domestic games it also has rights to key matches from international competitions such as the UEFA Europa League and English FA Cup.
Sony and the All England Lawn Tennis Club announced a multiyear partnership to bring Wimbledon to 3D-ready digital cinemas around the world. The live 3D production, in partnership with Wimbledon host broadcaster BBC, also will be offered to broadcasters. Sony will work with SuperVision Media, its theatrical distribution partner.
BBC CAUTIOUS ON 3D TV
YLE, MTV3 and Nelonen will start national HD broadcasts, after the Finnish Government granted licences in three new multiplexes. Multiplex VHF C will carry two HD channels: Canal+Series HD and 4 Pro 2 HD, Multiplex F will host Discovery HD Showcase, Eurosport HD, MTV3 HD, Nelonen HD, while Yleisradio Oy has reserved capacity for HD broadcasts on one channel. All of the operating licences are valid until 31 December 2016.
POLAND HBO GOES HD IN POLAND

HBO has launched HD versions of all its channels on the Cyfra+, Cyfrowy Polsat and N DTH platforms. HBOs new movie channels HBO2HD, HBO Comedy HD and Cinemax2 HD will be introduced to the Polish market for the first time. The new channels have the same programming offer and scheduling as the ones in SD.
The BBC is playing it cautiously over the implementation of stereoscopic 3D technology according to a recent report. The March version of the BBCs technology plan has shown that while trials are set to continue with the new format, it will not be investing in programme making for the time being. However the report does not rule out a more comprehensive strategy next year.
NHK WORLD HD AVAILABLE ON FREESAT

NHK World became the first news network to broadcast in HD on the Freesat platform in May. The Japanese TV channel became the fifth HD channel on the DTH service, joining BBC1 HD, The BBC HD Channel, ITV1 HD and C4 HD.
GERMANY ONE MILLION 3D TV SETS TO BE SOLD IN 2011
N AIMS FOR 30 HD CHANNELS BY YEARS END
From their rollout in April 2010 until the end of that year, some 200,000 3-D TV sets were sold in Germany and GfK predicts that sales will rise by 500 percent to one million sets in 2011. It expects the national market to approach 10 million TV sets in the long term. However, only 200,000 pairs of the special glasses needed to watch films in 3-D were sold along with the 200,000 TV sets.
n is boosting its channel line-up as the platform is aiming to reach more than 30 HD channels before the end of the year. The latest addition to the HD line-up was National Geographic Channel HD, bringing the total to 26 HD channels.
SKY LAUNCHES MULTIROOM HD BOX
PORTUGAL ZON AIRS NBA GAMES IN 3D

Zon Multimedia is broadcasting eight NBA league games in 3D, on its 3D demo channel. Besides games of the regular season, five playoff games will also be broadcast.
SES ASTRA, DEUTSCHE TELEKOM COMBINE SATELLITE, IPTV
Sky has launched a new midrange set top box aimed at customers wanting to watch HDTV in more than one room. When taken with Skys HD pack, the new Sky HD box gives customers access to the same line-up of more than 50 HD channels, including Sky Atlantic HD, BBC One HD and Sky Sports 1 HD. The receiver completes Skys HD product line-up, alongside the standard Sky+ HD box and the 1 TB receiver.
SES ASTRA has teamed up with Deutsche Telekom to combine the satellite TV and IPTV service Entertain. The offer will include all FTA channels in SD and HD, including HD+ as well as the typical Entertain services like VOD, a TV archive and an EPG. Entertain Sat also comprises time shift functions and HD recording with 500 GB memory.
SONY ENTERTAINMENT HD LAUNCHES ON MEO
VODAFONE INTRODUCES ABC TV ON DEMAND
Sony Entertainment Television has launched on Meo in the HD version. The channel is available in the Basic package for IPTV (ADSL and Fibre Optic) customers. With the arrival of Sony TV HD, Meo will have a total of 17 HD channels.
NORTH AMERICA
CANADA VIDEOTRON BOOSTS HD LINE-UP WITH OWN, CNN
The Walt Disney Company Germany has signed an agreement with Vodafone for the countrys first ABC TV On Demand. This is one of the first ABC TV On Demand services available outside the U.S. The VOD offering includes a selection of ABC series, kids and family channels Disney XD and Playhouse Disney, as well as access to Disney film classics.
SPAIN STARMAX SELECTS GLOBECAST FOR HD TRANSMISSION
GREECE NET GEO WILD HD LAUNCHES IN GREECE

National Geographic Channels International has launched its Nat Geo Wild HD network in Greece. The channel is available on the Nova pay-TV platform, where the SD version is already available.
Starmax HD is using content management and transmission services from GlobeCast for aggregation, encryption and delivery of its full channel line-up. The service includes fibre contribution from several countries, reception of SD and HD channels at the companys Sainte Assise Teleport in France, and signal compression in MPEG-4. Starmax HD offers a prepaid package without requiring a subscription or minimum sign-up period and uses STBs from Ferguson and access cards from Conax.
Videotron has added two more HD channels Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and CNN to its digital TV service. With these additions, illico TV now boasts a selection of programming on nearly 400 channels, and the largest selection of HD content. The new HD channels are available everywhere in Videotrons service area except Gatineau/Rockland.
UNITED STATES 3DTV SETS IN 15 MILLION U.S HOMES BY END-2012
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American audience. BET HD joins FiOS TVs broad collection of programming, which offers more than 520 all-digital channels including up to 146 HD channels and 19,000 monthly VOD titles. plement the HD grid, which already includes Globosat HD, Multishow HD, Discovery HD Theater, Fox NatGeo HD, TNT HD, HBO HD, Max HD, Telecine HD and Telecine Pipoca HD.
ity of 3D content, Futuresource says, adding that 11 3D services, 2 3D channels, and 6 VOD offerings were available to customers at the end of 2010.
PBTV ADDS SIX HD CHANNELS
Paul Bunyan Communications has added six more networks in HD to Paul Bunyan Television HD service. The networks added to PBTV HD service include MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, Spike, Nickelodeon and CMT. There is no change in the cost to receive PBTV HD service, which now has more than 30 channels available.
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IPTV TO ACCOUNT FOR 12.1% OF HD SUBSCRIBERS IN 2015
According to consultancy Dataxis NexTV, in 2010 IPTV accounted for 4% of the total volume of HDTV subscribers in Latin America and this figure should grow to 12.1% by 2015. Driving growth in IPTV is going to the large operators like Telmex Mexico, Telefnica Chile and GVT Brazil. Dataxis NexTV forecasts that HDTV subscribers could reach 16.5 million in 2015, representing 22.7% of the total pay-TV subscriber base compared with 5.4% in 2005. Brazil, Mexico and Argentina will account for 79% of those HD subscribers. However, Brazil, Chile and Colombia are seeing the highest HDTV penetration rates.
ECHOSTAR EUROPE SUPPLIES STB FOR TELEFONICA MOVISTAR
AT&T ADDS FOX SOCCER PLUS HD
AT&T has added FOX Soccer Plus HD to the U-verse TV channel line-up for $15 per month. AT&T U-verse TV includes access to more than 155 HD channels and growing.
EchoStar Europe has supplied a HD set-top box to support Telefonica Movistar HD service that allows users to watch up to 1000 channels including HD services. The twin-tuner HDS-600 ships with software that enables the consumer to upgrade to DVR using an external USB hard disk drive.
DISH NETWORK ADDS RFD-TV IN HD
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INDIA DISH TV LAUNCHES 30 HD CHANNNELS
Dish TV has launched 30 new HD channels including Zee TV, Zee Cinema, Zee News, Zee Studio, Zee Caf , HBO, Movies Now, Discovery, National Geographic, Animal Planet, Zee Talkies, Zee Bangla, Zee Telugu, Zee Kannada, Times Now, ET Now, Cartoon Network, POGO, Ten Sports, AXN, MTV, VH1, WB, Pix, TLC, Ten Cricket, UTV Action, UTV Movies, Sony and Colors.
RFD HD is now available at no additional cost to all DISH Network customers who subscribe to the Americas Top 200 programming package or above. RFD-TV serves rural America with a 24-hour schedule of original and family-oriented programs that cover the rural way of life, including agriculture, equine, music and entertainment.
BRAZIL VIA EMBRATEL ADDS ESPN, TELECINE ACTION HD
VERIZON ADDS BET HD TO FIOS TV
Verizon has added BET HD for its FiOS TV customers, providing hit music, entertainment and news programming geared toward the African-
Via Embratel has expanded its offering of HD channels. ESPN HD and Telecine Action HD were incorporated into the operators HD package free of charge. The new channels com-
VIDEOCON LAUNCHES DVR WITH 3D
Videocon d2h has launched Indias first HD DVR with 3D. The main features include recording up to 200 hours, 16:9 aspect ratio, 5x digital picture quality and HD Digital sound. The newly added HD channels are Discovery HD, NGC HD, Movies Now HD, Travel XP, HD Active Music, HD d2h Movies, Baby TV, Spacetoon, FX, Fox Crime, Big CBS Prime, Discovery Science, Discovery Turbo, NGC Wild, NGC Adventure and NGC Music.
NEW ZEALAND HDTV COVERAGE EXTENDED NATIONWIDE

The New Zealand Government is extending the existing DTT service to Whangarei, Rotorua, Gisborne, Taupo, New Plymouth, Whanganui, Wairarapa, Nelson, Timaru and Invercargill, making it available to an extra 160,000 households. The decision means over 86% of the population will be able to receive the HDTV signal via UHF aerial by September 2011.
the total number of HD channels on DStv to six: three SuperSport HD channels, M-Net HD, M-Net Movies 1 HD and Discovery HD Showcase.
WORLD
GLOBAL HDTV SUBSCRIBERS TO TOTAL 225 MILLION IN 2011
The number of pay-TV customers worldwide with subscriptions to HDTV services is expected to reach 225 million this year, according to ABI Research. There were 704 million pay-TV subscribers globally as of the end of 2010, an increase of 56 million from the previous year.
SOUTH KOREA ICONCERTS SECURES CARRIAGE ON KT

Swiss HD music events service iConcert has secured multi-platform carriage with Korean IPTV operator KT. The iConcerts is available on the Olleh N-Screen service, as a live or VoD channel on wired and wireless internet services, including tablet PCs and other mobile devices.
SINGAPORE ONE HD PREMIERES ON STARHUB

Sony Pictures Entertainment Networks Asia has teamed up with StarHub to expand the reach of its Asian general entertainment channel One. StarHub is One HD with Chinese subtitles and a two-hour primetime program dubbed in Mandarin.
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AUSTRALIA TEN NETWORK LAUNCHES ONE HD
The Ten Network launched its HD sports channel One, with general entertainment programming set to take over its schedule from May. One HD is targeted to a male audience, with a mixture of drama, HD movies and documentaries, as well as premium sport.
AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA DSTV LAUNCHES THIRD SUPERSPORT HD CHANNEL
RRSAT PROVIDING 3D DELIVERY OF FASHION TV

RRsat Global Communications Network is providing uplink, play out and connectivity services for fashiontv H3, the 3D programming on the Fashion TV Paris HD channel. FTV has doubled the shows broadcast as part of the FTV HD programming played out and distributed by RRsat on its DTH platforms on the Intelsat-805 satellite over North, Central and South America, on the Eurobird 9A satellite to Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and on the Asiasat-5 satellite to Asia and Australia.
DSTV has launched its third HD sports channel, in addition to the two existing SuperSport HD channels. SS HD3 airs 24-hour English Premier League channel, with a limited amount of programming in SD. The addition of SS HD3 brings
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T-Hrvatski Telekom had reached 297,496 subscribers for its IPTV service MAXtv by the end of 2010, up 26.1% from one year previously. Growth was driven by continuing promotions and attractive content packages, including new films and HBO programming, and the launch of a Sports package.
the companys Vodafone TV Center box. The service allows customers to receive analogue cable and digital satellite channels alongside Vodafone TVs IPTV offering, Videothek, available over its DSL network. The starter package offers 50 TV channels plus 12 HD channels.
EUROPE
AUSTRIA TELEKOM AUSTRIA IPTV SUBSCRIBERS UP 50%
FRANCE SFR PROVIDES SUBSCRIBERS WITH 120 TV CHANNELS ON MOBILES
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM SELLS 1.6 MILLION IPTV SUBSCRIPTIONS
Telekom Austria had reached over 151,000 subscribers for its IPTV service aonTV by the end of 2010, up more than 50% from one year previously. Thanks to agreement with On Demand Deutschland, aonTV subscribers will be able to watch 3D versions of blockbusters whenever they want and with complete time-shifting capabilities.
SFR has enhanced its app for iOS and Android smart phones and tablets by enabling its IPTV subscribers to watch over 120 live TV channels on their mobile devices. The app also allows users to consult their full EPG, schedule recordings remotely, set reminders, and browse the VOD library. SFR has also boosted its on-demand library of 3D content.
Deutsche Telekom reports that it had sold 1.6 million subscriptions to its IPTV service T-Home Entertain by the end of 2010. Total active IPTV subscriptions in Germany had reached 1.156 million by the end of last year, up from 1.042 million one year previously. The operator had also reached 654,000 active IPTV subscribers in other European markets by the end of 2010.
BELGIUM BELGACOM IPTV SERVICES TOP 1.1 MILLION

Belgacom added 223,000 subscribers for its IPTV service Belgacom TV last year to reach a total of 975,000 customers by the end of 2010. Rival Mobistar reached 10,000 subscribers for its hybrid TV service Mobistar TV, launched October 2010. Mobistar plans to add a further 50,000 TV customers by the end of 2011.
FRANCE TELECOM WITH 3.5 MILLION PAY-TV SUBSCRIBERS
France Telecom reached 3.505 million customers for its pay-TV services (delivered by IPTV and satellite) at the end of 2010, up 27% year-onyear. The Orange IPTV service recently added a new top-tier channel package, new information services, and launched a new application which can stream content from Orange cinma series to a variety of screens including Android devices.
CTC MEDIA SIGNS GERMAN IPTV DEAL
CTC Media has signed an exclusive agreement to distribute the CTC-International channel via the Kartina TV IPTV network, with a one-year right to sublicense it to other IPTV networks across European territories.
WATCHDOG BLOCKS ONLINE TV PLATFORM

Germanys antitrust watchdog has vetoed plans by RTL and ProSiebenSat.1 to launch a joint online video platform for their own content as well as that of other broadcasters. The Federal Cartel Office believes the joint platform would further strengthen the still existing dominant duopoly between the two broadcasting groups.
GERMANY VODAFONE GERMANY LAUNCHES HYBRID TV PLATFORM
CROATIA T-HRVATSKI TELEKOM CLOSE TO 300,000 IPTV SUBSCRIBERS
Vodafone Germany has officially launched its hybrid TV service, Vodafone TV, based on
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HUNGARY HUNGARY WITH 557,000 IPTV SUBSCRIBERS

Hungarys twelve biggest digital TV companies had 1,423,000 subscribers at the end of December 2010, according to the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH). The number of their digital subscribers with cable or IPTV connections rose by 20,000 to 557,000 during the month.
content, including HD films, TV series, cartoons, documentaries and football matches.
KOSOVO HARMONIC POWERS PTK IPTV SERVICE

PTK has deployed Harmonics IP-based digital video head end solutions for its new IPTV service. The solution includes ProView integrated receiver/ decoders (IRDs), Electra 8000 dual-channel SD/HD encoders, Ion AVC encoders, and NMX Digital Service Manager. BeeSmart is providing the interactive TV middleware platform.
access to social networks. Since 2010, Crnogorski Telekom is the pay-TV market leader, with a 38 percent market share (42,8000 subscribers).
NETHERLANDS KPN IPTV SUBSCRIBERS MORE THAN DOUBLE
ICELAND VODAFONE ICELAND SELECTS AMINO IPTV BOXES
Vodafone Iceland has selected Amino Communications HD set-top boxes for the next phase of its IPTV service rollout. The operator will deploy a number of Amino A140 SD/ HD STBs as part of a service upgrade of its IPTV service which offers TVoD, Catch-up and 100 TV channels to over 25,000 customers.
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MOLDTELECOM SELECTS MIDDLEWARE FROM MINERVA Moldtelecom has started scaling up its IPTV service using middleware from Minerva Networks, delivering the service to tens of thousands of subscribers. The operator offers two basic packages and one thematic package for adults. It also recently added an HD package to its content line-up.
KPN more than doubled the customer base for its IPTV service Interactieve TV last year to reach 302,000 subscribers by December 2010, compared to 106,000 one year previously. An estimated 80% of Dutch households are now covered, while around 69% of Dutch households are capable of receiving its HD IPTV service.
POLAND TPSA WITH 544,000 PAY-TV SUBSCRIBERS

TPSA had reached 544,000 subscribers for its TV services (delivered via DTH and IPTV) by the end of 2010, having added 47,000 customers in the 4Q period. The company reports that its pay-TV services now have a 23.8% penetration of its broadband subscriber base.
ITALY ACCENTURE HELPS MEDIASET LAUNCH OVER-THE-TOP TV
MONTENEGRO CRNOGORSKI TELEKOM UPGRADES IPTV PLATFORM
Accenture is providing a solution for Mediaset, enabling the broadcaster to provide Over-theTop services for TV, PC and other devices as part of the Mediaset Premium offer. Customers will be able to access linear content and nonlinear services such as Catch-up TV, VOD and Virtual Linear Channels on the TV set. Premium Net TV will offer over 1,000 different types of
PORTUGAL PORTUGAL TELECOM INTRODUCES PRE-PAID CARD FOR VOD
Crnogorski Telekom introduced a new software solution for its IPTV platform Extra TV. The solution is based on one of the newest version of the Microsoft Mediaroom software, with new features including the addition of favourite channels in real time, the scheduling of recordings, as well as
Portugal Telecom has enabled subscribers of its IPTV service Meo to pay for VOD with pre-pay cards. The cards have a value of EUR 5 or EUR 10, valid for a three-month period. Portugal Telecom had reached 830,000 Meo
The New IPTV Standard
OIPF provides the IPTV market with open end-2-end IPTV specifications OIPF includes most IPTV stakeholders OIPF stimulates a go-to-market drive from the IPTV industry
Open IPTV Forum 650, Route des Lucioles F-06921 SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS cedex France Tel: +33 4 92 94 43 83 Fax: +33 4 92 38 52 90 Email: contact@oipf.tv Website: www.oipf.tv
subscribers by the end of 2010, having added 249,000 customers in the 12-month period.
ABC LAUNCHES VOD SERVICE WITH ZON
ABC TV On Demand has launched in Portugal through subscription VoD operator Zon. Some 500 ABC shows, including Greys Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and Lost, will be available with new content added each month. Zon customers with subscriptions to its Filmes e Sries Ilimitado on Videoclube package can now access the ABC service for EUR 10 per month.
one 3D channel, as well as a range of ondemand content in SD, HD and 3D. In the near future, Uralsvyazinform is expected to introduce over-the-top (OTT) access to Utel.TV from PCs, iPhones, iPads and Android-based devices.
Imagenio will offer both the SD and HD versions of Sundance Channel on demand.
TV3 DEPLOYS ANEVIA IPTV SOLUTION
SCANDINAVIA DREAMPARK PROVIDES MIDDLEWARE SOLUTIONS
TV3 has chosen to deploy Anevias IPTV gateways for use within its broadcasting facilities. Anevia IPTV gateways receive live TV broadcasts in DVB and analogue formats and streams them over an IP network.
RUSSIA NTV PLUS, SMARTLABS LAUNCH JOINT IPTV SOLUTION
NTV-Plus has partnered with SmartLabs to jointly deliver a new IPTV service aimed at Russian broadband operators. SmartLabs will provide customers with client applications and a centralised management system for IPTV services and resources, while NTV-Plus will provide them with access to premium TV content.
Dreampark is providing its TV middleware solution to Faroese Telecom in the Faroe Islands as well as to Finlands Alcom. The Finnish operator is swapping out a competitors middleware solution and replacing it with the Dreampark Dreamgallery middleware. Meanwhile, Motorola Mobility has signed an agreement to acquire Dreampark and the acquisition should be closed before the 2Q 2011.
SWITZERLAND SWISSCOM REPORTS 81% GROWTH IN IPTV SUBSCRIBERS
Swisscom had reached 421,000 subscribers for its IPTV service Swisscom TV by the end of 2010, up 81.5% from one year previously, having added 63,000 new customers in the last quarter alone.
OUTDOOR CHANNEL ARRIVES IN SCANDINAVIA
TURKEY TTNET LAUNCHES IPTV SERVICE IN TURKEY
VLADLINK TO LAUNCH IPTV IN FAR EAST

Vladlink is conducting trials of IPTV services in Russias Far East, in preparation for a full commercial launch with its residential customers. The company has selected Netris to provide its iVision middleware for the new service, to be called Vladlink.TV.
Outdoor Channel has launched on TeliaSoneras IPTV platform in Sweden and Finland, with upcoming launches planned for Norway and Denmark. The deal is part of a joint venture between Chello Zone and the Outdoor Channel announced last year.
SPAIN TELEFONICA REACHES 788,000 IPTV SUBSCRIBERS
TTNET has launched its IPTV service, Tivibu Ev, following the launch of the Web TV service one year ago. A mobile version, Tivibu Cep, will be available in the 2Q 2011. On Demand Group is TTNETs international VOD content management partner.
NORTH AMERICA
CANADA TELUS ADDS 48,000 IPTV SUBSCRIBERS IN 4Q 2010
URALSVYAZINFORM UPGRADES IPTV PLATFORM
Uralsvyazinform has upgraded its IPTV platform using an end-to-end solution from Moscow firm SmartLabs. The Utel.TV IPTV service currently offers 96 SD channels, five HD channels and
Telefonica has reached a total of 788,000 IPTV customers by the end of 2010, giving it a 19% market share of the Spanish pay-TV market. The Movistar Imagenio service is adding Sundance Channel Global to its channel line-up on June 1. Additionally, Movistar
Telus had reached 314,000 IPTV subscribers by the end of 2010, up 85% from one year previously.
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The strong gains are attributed to the launch of its Optik TV brand in June, the introduction of OVR Anywhere, and expanded broadband coverage. At the end of 2010, there were an estimated 2.1 million homes within its IPTV-capable footprint.
U-VERSE TV WINS INDUSTRY AWARD FOR BEST MULTISCREEN TV
INDIA BHARTI AIRTEL LAUNCHES IPTV SERVICE

Bharti Airtel has launched its IPTV service, Airtel Broadband TV, offering 28 live TV channels to subscribers via PC. Three different tariff options are available, with prices starting at INR49 (USD 1.06) per month for either the Night Pack or My Pack. The most expensive option, Gold Pack, offers all live TV channels in addition to a number of VOD channels for INR99 per month.
TBAYTEL SELECTS CALIX FOR IPTV LAUNCH

Tbaytel has selected the Calix B6 Ethernet Service Access Node from Calix for its launch of IPTV services. Tbaytel will leverage VDSL2 and Active Ethernet fibre access technology to bring Microsoft Mediaroom-powered video services to residential subscribers in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Tbaytels IPTV platform will include PVR, HDTV, EPG and interactive applications.
The IP&TV World Forum has honoured AT&T with an Industry Award for AT&T U-verse TV. The award was for the Best Multiscreen TV Service and the operator was also nominated as a finalist in the Best IPTV, Hybrid or Connected TV Service Growth Achievement category.
CARIBBEAN
BONAIRE TELBO SELECTS AMINO IPTV SET-TOP-BOXES
MALAYSIA TIME, MEASAT TEAM UP FOR IPTV

Time dotCom (TTdC) has teamed up with Measat Broadcast Network Systems (MBNS), for the provision of IPTV and broadband services across the Klang Valley and Penang. Customers in apartment blocks, multi-dwelling units or commercial buildings will be offered an Astro IPTV solution, bundled with triple play.
COLBA.NET TO LAUNCH IPTV
Colba.Net will proceed to launch in 2011 its new IPTV service, following a recent decision by the CRTC approving the application by Colba.Net for a broadcasting license. Colba.net footprint currently covers approximately 400,000 households over the Island of Montreal. At launch, the new IPTV service will offer several HD channels.
Telefonia Bonairiano (Telbo) has selected Aminos A140 HD next generation IPTV set-top boxes for the deployment of HDTV services. Aminos A140, an MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 HD set-top box, is based on the latest STi7105 System on Chip solutions and was launched in mid-2010.
UNITED STATES SALISBURY TO DEPLOY MINERVA MIDDLEWARE
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AZERBAIJAN BTRIB TO DOUBLE IPTV SUBSCRIBERS
The Baku Telephone Network Production Association (BTRIB) intends to increase the number of IPTV users in 2011 to 2,000. Currently, the figure stands at 1,000. BTRIB is only one of the companies providing IPTV in the country and they include Aztelekom, Azeurotel, Adanet, and Ultel.
MONGOLIA UNIVISION ADDS SIX TURNER CHANNELS TO IPTV SERVICE
Minerva Networks has scored a deal with Salisbury (North Carolina) to deliver broadcast TV, VOD and Internet TV to 10,000 subscribers in conjunction with the city-owned Fibrant FTTH service provider. The new TV services include HDTV, whole-home digital video recording (WHDVR), VOD and Internet TV.
Univision has signed a multi-year agreement with Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific under which some of the latters premium channels will be added to its IPTV service. The channels include CNN International, Cartoon Network, Boomerang and truTV. Univisions IPTV service offers a core package of 70 linear channels for USD 9 per month, as well as VOD.
QATAR QTEL TO ADD HDTV AND VOD IN 2011

Qtel plans to start offering fibre-based services for customers in mid 2011, including high-speed Internet, HDTV, and advanced services such as movies and VOD. More than 300km of fibre network has been laid to replace the existing copper network across Doha.
SAUDI ARABIA SAUDI TELECOM IPTS FOR JDSU IPTV SOLUTION

Saudi Telecom (STC) has selected JDSU to provide a comprehensive IPTV end-to-end service assurance solution. Saudi Telecom launched its IPTV service inVision in August 2010, initially available in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam, and more recently introduced new sports packages.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ETISALAT SELECTS IPTV TECHNOLOGICAL PARTNERS

Pace and Verimatrix have been appointed by Etisalat to enable delivery of digital TV services to customers. The Pace HD PVR will provide VOD, PVR and Interactive services, while Paces Advanced Residential Gateway enables delivery of a variety of wireless digital services into the home through a single device. A Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) solution is being used to secure revenue streams from Etisalats IPTV service.
AFRICA
EGYPT EAMS CHOOSES LATENS, DREAMPARK CAS FOR IPTV PLATORM
EAMS has chosen Latens software-only Conditional Access System (CAS) to protect its Satellite IPTV delivery system. The EAMS Ecosystem will consist of Latens CAS, plus other system components. EAMS plans to offer HD/SD linear TV, PPV, and VOD services using satellite delivery of content via Nilesat to 50 regional head ends. The IPTV operator has also chosen the Dreampark Dreamgallery Middleware.
WORLD
GLOBAL IPTV SUBSCRIBERS TO REACH 70 MILLION IN 2015
Subscriber growth in China, Latin America and Eastern Europe will help double the number of IPTV subscribers worldwide to 70 million by 2015, according to a report from IMS Research. The market, which currently stands at 36.5 million, will see a slowing of growth in Western Europe as that market reaches the saturation point. Only China is expected to see continued strong growth.
OVER 11.5 MILLION IPTV SUBSCRIBERS ADDED IN 2010

The total number of IPTV subscribers worldwide had reached nearly 45.4 million at the end of 2010, with over 11.5 million added in 2010, according to the latest figures from the Broadband Forum. Europe is still the number one region for IPTV subscribers, but the growth rate was lower mostly due to market saturation. Asia recorded a 50 percent growth last year and should overtake Europe in 2011. The Middle East & Africa region had the strongest percentage growth at 63.5%. France remains the leading IPTV nation (10 million subscribers), closely followed by China (including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan), which should overtake France in 2011.
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