Icecrypt S3000HDCCI
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1. HDTV Satellite Receiver 08 09 720II e Extremely fast blind scan that can find low SR channels e Supports a wide variety of CA systems e Built in multi satellite controls USALS let the box find every channel on your multi satellite system automatically Full PVR features via USB TELE satellite Magazine Business Voucher CLICK HERE Direct Contact to Sales Manager TEST REPORT Master HDTV Satellite Receiver of Blind Scan N The term well rounded comes to mind when study ing the specifications of this receiver Although it has only one tuner and not that many interfaces as you might find in top of the line models all the main functions and features of a PVR type satellite receiver are there But how does it perform Is it fast enough Is its software stable and are its submenus logically organized and easy to fol low Will it be good for family use or is this more a model for a satellite en thusiast Our TELE satellite test gives clear answers to these questions and other ones like that Its elegant black design pleases the eye We espe cially liked the eight char acter 14 segment green display mounted on the left hand side of the front panel Also the labels for the eight front panel but tons look great On the right side of the front panel is a flap behind which we can find the USB 2 0 port a smart card slot and a CI slot The smart card r2. a blind scan We couldn t wait to test it There are no op tions to be set for this kind of a scan like frequency range or polarization so you just select blind scan and let the box take care of the rest We expected 5 Three video games are available 6 REC submenu to configure a USB memory device 7 Satellite List 8 Setting up a USALS compatible motorized antenna 9 Ready for scanning one satellite HOTBIRD 13 E Digits TV Magazine O08 09 20I1 www TELE satellite com the blind scan to take much longer then the automatic scans based on the prepro grammed transponder lists But we were shocked when the box reported the end of the process after only 5 minutes and 15 seconds It found 98 transponders 1485 TV channels and 417 radio channels That s an outstanding result and far better than we expected As mentioned before the HELLAS SAT was miss ing from the satellite list Keeping in mind the results from the HOTBIRD scans we decided to add the HEL LAS SAT channels using the blind scan feature and not the automatic scan because this would have required us to manually enter in a num ber of transponders Within just a couple of minutes the blind scan was finished it found 27 transponders and 231 TV channels For this test we were looking only for TV channels and noticed that not only high symbol rate transponders were de tected and processed but SCPC transponders as well for exampl
3. This is only a minor limitation of this receiver Even when recording and watching another chan nel at same time you still can use the Timeshift func tion The Timeshift func tion is started by press ing the PAUSE button The picture freezes and every thing from that moment on is recorded on a USB stor age device You can restart the video a little bit later by pressing the PLAY button Similarly to normal play back of regular recordings 26 TELE satellite Global Digital TV Magazine 08 09 2011 you can also rewind or fast forward a program when watching it in time shifted mode This is an especially useful feature when view ing channels with lots of commercial breaks The S3000HDCCI s media player is not just limited to playing the receiver s re cordings it will happily work with MP3 music or JPG BMP images located on your USB storage device When in slideshow mode the media player can switch between 4 MB JPG files every 5 to 7 seconds It s not as fast as a regular PC but it s much faster than older receivers Video recordings in AVI and MPG formats stored on USB storage devices can also be played with the S3000HDC CI media player However be aware that some of the video file formats are not Supported by this receiver Fortunately there are many free video converters avail able so you can convert the most important files to a format recognized by the S3000HDCCI So the next time
4. it will try to find the second audio and only if the second preferred audio is not available will it con nect to the first available soundtrack of a given chan nel Now that a proper OSD language has been cho sen the next step would be setting up the TV system which can be found in an other submenu in Systems Setup If you are using an HDMI connection and your TV supports 1080i resolu tion we suggest setting this value as the Video Resolution in the receiver s submenu We also suggest leaving the other menu items in their default set tings Aspect Mode Auto Video Output YUV etc You can adjust them later if necessary The next submenu you should visit is the Local Time Settings where you tell the receiver what your local time is with respect to Greenwich Mean Time UTC You can also con figure the S3000HDCCI to automatically adjust the receiver s time to daylight savings time if this is in use in your country At this point you ll want to match the antenna sys tem connected to the LNB IN jack to the receiver This ad d Language TV System Timer Setting Parental Lock OSD Setting Favorite Other Display Setting f Local Time Setting can be taken care of in the Installation Menu From the Antenna Connection menu you have two options Fixed Antenna and Motor Anten na If it s a simple installa tion you would choose the Fixed Antenna option
5. In the next submenu you can identify which satellites you want to receive with your dish Depending on the set tings in these two menus the third menu item An tenna Setup gives you an opportunity to set up your reception system in more detail The LOF frequencies have to be chosen from the list they cannot be entered manually Fortunately 4 there s no need to worry the list is quite extensive It contains the following frequencies 5150 5750 5950 9750 10000 10050 10450 10600 10700 11250 11300 5150 5750 5750 5150 Universal 9750 10550 Universal 9750 10600 Universal 9750 10700 and Universal 9750 10750 By default the most popular choice in Europe for the Ku Band is Universal 9750 10600 These settings must match your LNB LOFs Depending on the type of antenna you have there are different DiSEqC op ICECRMEBRII tions available For a fixed antenna you can select be tween DiSEqC 1 0 1 1 or no DiSEqC direct If you have just one LNB and do not use any DiSEqC switch es between your receiver and the LNB then no DiS EqC is the proper choice For a motorized antenna you can select either DiS EqC 1 2 or USALS depend ing on the type of motor you have If USALS is se 1 Edit Channel 2 Installation submenu 3 System Setup submenu 4 Tools submenu J 4 Information Factory Setting Common Interface Conditional Access Upgrade By USB
6. 2 times maximum zoom is 16x 23 Media player ready to show JPG pictures 24 Mosaic of JPG pictures 25 The SS3000HDCCI is ready to play back an MPG movie stored on a USB device 26 List of recordings CD 1991 11 24 Spacer z mahiettaAl t 7 A Cy J Root udat Zadjecia filmy 1991 198 Edt Switch Sort 11 12 04 TS TSA 25 gt 1991 11 24 Spacer 720X676 845452 KB 4 00 00 00 00 27 03 rile gt TS TSA 11 32 11 33 24M 00 00 00 00 00 46 C Rename Lock Delete t Switch Exit ELE satellite com O8 09 20I1 TELE satellite Global Digital TV Magazine 23 TV Channa ist All Satellites f FAV Luck Skip OF TURKSAT 1C 2A eB kdil TIHGUMH srs A f F4 M s I l 873MH SAAGK els 44 11881MHz 2813Ks s V 889MH 3 JA ORK C Y O Delele Seurch 21 05 4 12 201 Madani Ch Narul Iffta aja Nac 2043 Music Indi i age Rah Market Sallar TIME 21 06 4 12 21 06 2011 04 12 the S3OOOHDCCI as well as the sensitivity of its tuner We heartily recommend using the blind scan option for channel searching With the channel search portion complete the S3000HDCCI took us to the very last channel it had found We could now start enjoying watching TV The time to switch between channels was very short one second or slightly above one second Channel surfing was a real joy The info bar appeared momen tarily after each channel change and d
7. Media Player Remove USB device safely Network Local Setting Upgrade By Network Www TELE satellite com O08 09 20I1 TELE satellite Global Digital TV Magazine 19 ASU Li J j Moor Sir 1 Astra2 Eurobird1 E 28 0 Delete lected you must enter the geographical coordinates of the antenna s position All of this is fairly logical Once the antenna setup is completed you can move on to channel searching We can search either one satel lite or a number of satellites in a single pass Of course the latter is possible if mo torized or multi feed anten na systems are in use The factory preprogrammed satellite list is not very long and has only 41 positions Some important satellites for the European market are missing for example HELLAS SAT at 39 east is not in the list However as you will see this is not a big problem at all We started with an au tomatic scan of the HOT BIRD satellite at 13 east The S300O0HDCCI required almost 7 minutes to scan 92 factory preprogrammed transponders this is fairly good 1239 TV channels and 357 radio channels were found After resetting the box and turning on the Network Search option the scan was repeated This time it took 8 minutes and 45 seconds but the number of channels grew signifi cantly 1510 TV channels and 418 radio channels But here s the best part as the proud owner of an S3000HDCCI you can opt for yet another option
8. R buttons moving a channel within the channel list deleting a channel or renaming it You can also sort channels in a number of ways When in the edi tor screen the video of the currently selected channel is visible in an insert and information about the satel lite transponder and chan nel PIDs are also shown The availability of 32 Favorites lists is a num ber that will satisfy every user The S3000HDCCI al lows you to name them as you wish Simply enter the proper menu item and use the on screen keyboard to change the name of the list During normal viewing the color function buttons can be used to change the soundtracks if more than one are present display teletext change the video resolution of the HDMI sig nal or start the Find func tion The Find function filters the channel list in accordance with the first several letters entered by the viewer This is a very helpful feature when look ing for a specific channel among hundreds or even thousands of others The S3000HDCCI has PVR functionality After connecting a USB storage device to its port the box turns into a fully functional digital recorder You can program a recording from the EPG from the timer Submenu or manually by pressing the RECORD but ton when watching a pro gram Every mode worked perfectly in our tests While recording you can watch another channel from the Same transponder but you cannot play a previously recorded program
9. Satellites 22 TELE salelliie Global Digital TV Magazine O8 09 20II 7 ww TELE satellite com 7 EPG 22 48 4 7 gt 0276 PULS Kameleon 22 30 23 30 _ 23 00 23 30 00 0276 PULS Kameleon 00 0277 CINFMAX Uznany 7a Sy X ee 0278 TVP INF Epes 10001 TVN HD 0002 TVN HD1 0003 TVN 0004 STVN 24 0005 TVN Siedem 0006 TVN METEO 0007 TVN TURBO 0008 TVN Style 0009 TVN CNBC 0010 STVN Warszawa SGAPS D BOK Audin S gt _Y pol 670 org 671 Dolby D BBC World News Satellite Hotbird Transponder 12597 V 27500 PID V 163 A 92 P 163 Encryption 1441 Signal Intensity aD 90 Signal Quality lt 74 win 7 AAA WORLD NEWS oe ies R TRR E E 102 BBC WORLD EEC Beg EUU 8s ASS 1 102 08 Apr 132157715 Nato refuses Libya strike apol ogy Nato has refused to apologise fa Ffriendiy fire attack on rebel im eastern Libya that killed at Four peopie Mi d Mey targer For Portugal aid r a tank s I east The European Union is aiming to have sorted out a bai l out For Portugal by the middle of May Cancer fuetied by extra drinka Drinking more than a pint of beer a day can substantiattiy increase the risk of some cancers research suggests 19 amp Root uda Fy Switch djecla SLB Lats ERY Sort FAV All Setup TSF Ay o as SRE Sine ZOOM X42 gt P1000147 JPG 3439 KB 2 Edit us gt Multi
10. View Exit covered that the scan had finished and the receiver s channel list was filled up We counted 2437 FTA TV channels and 1854 FTA ra dio channels Since the box has a memory capacity of 5000 channels there were still over 700 unoccupied channels They could be used for PayTV channels Among the channels found we noticed there were quite a number of SCPC transmissions like SOLIDARIA on HISPA SAT SR 2 222 Ms sec RIT on ATLANTIC BIRD 1 SR 2 139 Ms sec or ISHTARFEED A on ATLAN TIC BIRD 2 SR 2 098 Ms sec Generally all symbol rates were present from the very high 30 Ms sec through medium 4 6 Ms sec to the very low around 2 Ms sec This means that the blind scan function of this receiver is very scru pulous in detecting all ac tive transponders The re ceiver tuner also detected and correctly processed the weaker transponders which would occasionally produce some glitches when viewed with other receivers All in all we were very pleased with the performance of the blind scan function in 10 11 Automatic channel scan in progress 12 Signal strength and quality of a transponder 13 Othello is a simple but addictive game 14 Info bar 15 Electronic Program Guide 16 The Find function helps you find a channel in a long channel list 17 Switching soundtracks 18 Extended channel description 19 Teletext displayed as OSD 20 21 Timeshift function 22 SD channel video zoomed 1
11. c MPEG II ISO IEC 13818 2 MP ML H 264 MPEG4 part 10 MPEG 1 Layer amp Il PCM Downmix IEC958 SPDIF Dolby 5 1 channel Dolby Downmix 2 Channel Dolby Prologic 2 ALI 3602 Memory Flash ROM 4 MBytes SDRAM 64 Mbytes AC 175 250 50 60Hz Transport Stream Audio Decoding Main Processor Power Supply Size W x H x D 260mm x 45mm x 213mm ENERGY DIAGRAM 25 l 15 1 10 Power W EE 44 4 4 4 Wwww TEL satellite com O8 09 20I1 TELE satellite Global Digital TV Magazine 27
12. e 11139 MHz V with a symbolrate of 2 891 Ms sec Considering that the blind scan was so success ful we decided to perform the installation as if we were doing it for our own home receiver We deleted all of the factory prepro grammed satellites and entered only the satellites that can be received at our location with a 90 cm mo torized dish That turned out to be 25 satellites from HISPASAT at 30 west to INTELSAT 12 at 45 east The blind scan s job was to find all the FTA TV and ra dio channels on these sat ellites and we started it in the Multi Satellite Search submenu After leaving the box unattended for about two and half hours we dis Full Sean TV Channel Radio Channel Moving dish Full Scan gt TV Channel 214 gt Radio Channel 50 AFN Rota AFN The Eagle Sou AFN Naples AFNS Audio Test S AFN Sigonella AFN Aviano 106FM SAFN Freedom SAFN Aviano 107FM Schweinfurt XMTR AFN PowerTalk 16 Hathird 11034 V 27500 0K 17 Hotbird 11054 H 27600 0K 18 Hotbird 11075 V 27500 0K_ N 19 Hathird 11095 H 28000 OK 20 Hotbird 11131V 5692 Satellite 1 1 Hotbird LNB Freq Universal 9750 10600 Transponder 92 92 12731 H 27500 DISEqC1 0 Disable DISEqC1 1 Disable 22K Auto Polarity O Auto gt Signal Intensity Gi GO Signal Quality Othello Start Setup Cancel Class 1 Black 14 White 10 22 25 23 30 Markus Lanz 0129 23 30 23 50 heute nacht All
13. eader is described in the specifi cations as compatible with Conax but it is in fact a uni versal one We confirmed in our tests that it can work with smart cards of at least two other CA systems Vi access and SECA The rear panel has eve rything you expect from a single tuner box LNB input and looped through out put digital outputs HDMI and optical S PDIF audio analog outputs 2 x SCART 6 x RCA with composite component video and ste reo audio data interfaces Ethernet and RS 232 and a main power switch The USB port is not duplicated on the rear panel so when you connect a memory de vice you have to keep the flap open on the front pan el In our opinion the remote control unit does not look as elegant as the box It s a puzzling thing why does the design of a remote con trol often have no resem blance to the design of the box That s a fact for quite a few A V devices It would be great if you could look at several remote controls Spread out on a table and be able to instantly match the remote control with the receiver simply by compar ing its appearance to that i Delete All 18 TELE satellite Global Digital TV Magazine O8 09 20Il IV Channel List Radio Channe List of the receiver The S3000HDCCCI does not have an installation as sistant Right after pow ering up the unit you are taken to the main menu Navigation in the menu is simple and fast T
14. g the receiver s software first before proceeding to receiver configuration and channel search Throughout the entire test the S3OOOHDCCI per formed very well and did not give us any hardware or software problems We were able to figure out most of the receiver s fea tures and functions with out any reference to the user manual The manual explains all of its major functions comes with nu merous screenshots and will confidently guide you through the receiver s in Stallation even if you hap pen to be new at this sort of thing This receiver is suita ble for family use as well as for both single and multi satellite reception systems It is obviously limited by its single tuner unit but if you can live without the ability to record one channel while watching another from a different transponder you Should be very happy with the S3OOOHDCCI ICECRMEBRII TECHNICAL DATA Icecrypt Sittingbourne United Kingdom Manufacturer Website www icecrypt com Email info icecrypt com 44 1795 427 666 S3000HDCCI Fax Model Description C Ku Band Compatible Yes SCR Compatible No DiSEqC Compatible 1 0 1 3 USALS Digital Satellite Receiver PVR ready PVR ready yes Input 1 x L Band 950 2150 MHz D28 D3 13 18VDC max 400mA LNB power SCPC Compatible Yes from 2 Ms se
15. he menu consists of six submenus Edit Channel Installation System Setup Tools Game and REC It would help to have some experience with satellite TV receivers in or der to install the S3000H DCCI properly We ll de scribe this process a little to assist our less experi enced readers The first and most obvi ous step is to set the OSD language so that you can understand all the menu items By pressing the down arrow button twice in the Main Menu the System Setup submenu is shown A push of the OK button takes you to the right hand side of the menu and the Language submenu is highlighted Af ter pressing the OK button again the content of this menu is displayed You can choose from the following language options English French German Italian Spanish Portuguese Rus Sian Turkish Polish Ara gt 4 Antenna Connection Satellite List Antenna Setup iP Lisl www TEL soatellite com Single Satollite Search Multi Satellite Search sateiirfe Icecrypt S3000HDCCI Super fast blindscan finds all channels bic Dutch Czech Slovak Greek and Hungarian Not only can the OSD language be set here but you can also select the preferred audio language first and second as well as the pre ferred teletext language When a new channel is se lected the S3000HDCCI will always try to connect to the soundtrack in the language that was selected as the first audio If it s not available
16. isplayed typi cal data channel name and number current and up coming program and icons identifying channel fea tures like scrambling or the presence of EPG data The info bar can be displayed at any time when watching TV by pressing the Info button Pressing the Info button again displays more infor mation about the channel and the transponder in cluding signal strength and signal quality To see extended pro gramming descriptions you have to visit the EPG screen The EPG has only one format grid form but it s probably the most desired one It shows the programming guide for channels transmitted with in the current transponder If you highlight the pro gram you are interested in and press OK its extended description is shown Of course this is only true if the provider makes this information available You can mark the programs to be recorded directly in the EPG Up to eight timer set tings are allowed 27 Organizing channels 28 Transponder editor 29 Channel info bar 30 Electronic Program Guide 31 Programming a new recording in the EPG Digital TV Magazine 08 09 20 1 www TELE salellite com The S3000HDCCI comes with channel editing func tions that are quite straight forward to use You can do everything that you nor mally would expect from a channel editor such as locking a channel with a PIN setting a channel to be skipped during chan nel surfing with the PR and P
17. your aunt comes to visit you can turn on your media player and show her all the videos and photos you took from your last va cation If you do that in a clever way chances are she won t visit you again any time soon www TELE satellite com If watching live channels recordings MP3 s or JPG s are not enough you can go to the Game submenu where you ll find three vid eo games Tetris Othello and Sudoku The receiver s software can be updated from the Internet either via the RS 232 port or the USB port The default settings for an Internet update didn t work for us so we visited the manufacturer s web page and downloaded the latest firmware version for the S3000HDCCI Af ter uncompressing the file we transferred it to a USB stick and connected it to the receiver s USB port The update process went Smoothly the receiver had programmed its inter nal memory rebooted and Excellent blind scan very fast and accurate Supports smart cards of different CA systems a Very fast channel surfing Extremely low energy consumption in stand by __ Firmware update erases all user satellite and FD channel data the new firmware version 2 10B4 was installed Un fortunately all our satellite and channel information disappeared That was a Surprise Hopefully Ice crypt will address this issue as soon as possible user data should not vanish like that We suggest that you Should start with updat in
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