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MVision HD-300 Combo Net

MVision HD-300 Combo Net - £209 HD sat reception, a Freeview tuner, a programmable CAM and media streaming make for a great PVR combo It can be hard to decide whether combining two reception platforms in one box is sensible. When you can get a Freeview receiver for £25 is it worth it, especially if you must sacrifice some of the proprietary aspect of Freeview in the process? The MVision HD-300 Combo NET makes the decision a little easier by including blind search and DiSEqC 1.1 compatibility on the satellite side, and providing PVR functionality, common interface slots and a programmable CAM for both satellite and terrestrial reception, all for close to £200. Build and connectivity The HD-300 is a solid machine with a ‘no-nonsense’ styling. The front panel is fl at and quite plain but for the chromed buttons. These cover Power, Menu, Select, and Channel and volume up/down – more than is usually included. The four-digit fl uorescent display shines through t

HDTV Receiver

HDTV Receiver SAMSUNG HDTV RECEIVER DTB-H260F DTV BOX US $100.00 HDTV Receiver The recent technological breakthrough in broadcast signals from the traditional analog NTSC, PAL, and SECAM formats to a digital signal format with a higher resolution is called as High-Definition television (HDTV). A consortium of companies such as AT&T, General Instrument, MIT, Philips, Sarnoff, Thomson, and Zenith formed the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance and introduced the technology for the first time in the USA in 1990. HDTV broadcast standards lay down specifications to have a resolution of 1080 active lines and a 16 x 9 aspect ratio in ITU-R BT.709. The ATSC broadcast standard uses a resolution of 720 lines across the United States and few other countries. The standard is referred by a specific notation stating the number of lines in the display resolution, Progressive frames (p) or interlaced fields (i), and Number of frames or fields

Best Linux Based Receiver Brand

  if you have  own a Technomate 800HD, and learned  could watch television from CCCam and all that.  have been trying to get the box to the way i like it but, Rytec XMLTV EPG is very unreliable and if i cant look at what is on then i don't know what i want to watch, so crossepg provides other EPG data input such as opentv but as i found out it does not work With technomate. What you are  looking for is a good HD Box that is well supported on the Satellite Scene with images and plugins, the ability of CCCam and Cline codes, also good epg input that is reliable. What brand is the best to go for. VU,OpenTV,Dreambox,Technomate or Spiderbox? Or a possible clone From what i have read into the DM800HD clone looks a good buy as segel mentioned, a single tuner box means you only have one cable coming in from your dishes LNB, and you can only watch 1 channel. a twin tuner means that the box is capable of receiving 2 seperate cables/feeds from the dishes LNB, so you can watch 1 cha

How to use PVR function to record on Mvision receiver

How to use PVR function to record on Mvision receiver Having successfully installed the Hard drive onto the Mvision - below is outline the main features that come with having a hard drive added on. To Pause Live TV on your MVision     Press the 'Pause' button on the remote control     Time lag will be displayed on screen     To resume play press 'Pause' button again     To return to real time Press 'Stop' button     asked 'Do you want to end time shift'     Select 'Yes' Record a TV programme on your MVision     Switch to the desired channel     Press the 'Red' button to select for recording     Recording begins     To end recording just press 'Stop' Button     select 'Yes' to confirm you wish to stop Record a TV programme using EPG on your MVision     Switch to the desired channel     Press the EPG button to bring up upcoming programme guide     Arrow over

How To Manually Tune in a Satellite Channel

How To Manually Tune in a Satellite Channel     Press the 'Menu' button     Scroll over to the 'Installation' Sub-menu     Select 'Satellite Search' & click 'OK'     From Satellite menu      Scroll over to select Satellite 'Astra 2A/2D'     Search option 'One TP'     Select 'Start Search'     See 'Channel Search Complete' after 1 minute     Press ok to save     Autoscan is now complete ! How to Install an external Hard Drive on MVision HD300 AIM: Add an external Hard drive to the Mvision HD300 to utilise it's PVR features Equipment:     Mvision HD300     External Hard Drive with USB cable Steps     Unpack the external hard drive for it's packaging.     Power down the MVision receiver     Connect the USB cable to the back of the hard drive enclosure     Connect the hard drive to the back of the mvision box using the available USB port.     Turn

Wipe channel data from USB stick

Wipe channel data from USB stick     Press the Menu Button     Scroll over and select 'Acessory' Sub-menu     Select 'USB'     Press Yellow button to 'Format'     Do you wish to delete all information ?     Select 'Yes'     Wait 3-4 seconds and add channel data will be gone Why Would a Channel go Missing?     It may have gone off the air i.e. simply gone out of business         Solution: None     It may have gone pay-for-view i.e. the signal is now encrypted         Solution: None     Channel may have moved to a different frequency         Solution: Find new Frequency or Manually Tune in a Channel Find New Channel Frequency Look up the channel on www.lyngsat.com logon to www.lyngsat.com     From the Frequency line in the table come over to 73°E-0°E and click on Europe     Now select the satellite / group of satellites of interest to you         e.g. 28.2°E (Covers ASTRA 2A,2B,2C,2D,EUROBI

Upload Channel data on to USB stick.

Upload Channel data on to USB stick. Press the Menu Button Scroll over and select 'Acessory' Sub-memu Select 'USB' Press Green Button to save Choose data type - 'channel data USB' File is saved as 'STB_DB.UDB' Download Data from USB stick Press the Menu Button Scroll over and select 'Acessory' Sub-menu Select 'USB' Press 'Select' Do you want to download new database ? Press select Wat 10 seconds and download will complete