Icecrypt STC6000HD PVR - TELE
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1. Also moving channels is smartly organized you do not deal with each chan nel separately but mark a group of channels and then highlight a position where the entire group should end up Everything works very fast evidently the power of the receiver s main proces sor and the amount of RAM contribute to this Overall managing channels in the STC6000HD PVR is excep tionally well done The Electronic Program Guide is accessed with the EPG button There are two modes grid mode which Shows a multichannel view along a timeline and single channel mode Everything works really fast and navi gating the programming schedule is pure pleasure As expected you can mark programs for recording di rectly in the EPG In such a classy receiver even the RECALL function is not a basic one So when you press the RECALL button a list of previously watched channels is displayed You can either press the RECALL button again to choose the very last channel or use the up down arrow buttons to select another one and press OK There are two stand by modes available in the STC6000HD PVR In deep You TD standby mode the box is almost completely off con suming less than 1 W of power We measured 0 8 W However switching back to operate mode takes over 40 seconds If this is too long for you you can choose the shallow standby mode in which switching back to operate mode takes only 4 seconds The penalty is the energy consump2. DanceNationTv 9 0E Eurobird 9A SAT 28 2E Astra 2A 2 TP 11642 V 27499 PID 2313 2314 2305 True Movies 2 16 0E Eutelsat W2 Provider BSkyB Tiny Pop 23 5E Astra 1E JA NME TV 28 2E Astra 2A 2 x Sort Lists Set Favorites Service Find Service List Option Prog ram Guide Passaggio a Nord Ovest 17 45 14 May 18 50 14 I Pa a i rad Channel 18 00 18 30 v 447 Rai 2 448 Rai 3 449 Rai 4 450 Rai Ne 451 TV CORAN Lon ES Passaggio a Nord Crazy P 90 Minuto Seri F The Doctor Who Special IV st ews No Information ggie EPG s CH Timer 7 Prev Day Next Day Event Search Express Epg Program Guide 18 50 20 00 20 35 21 10 Event Passaggio a Nord Ovest 20 00 U Eredita ART 20 30 TELEGIORNALE E 20 30 20 35 Rai Tg Sport P s 21 10 Affari Tuol 23 40 Me lo dicono Tutti EO Toggle EPG gt CH Prev Day Next Day Event Search Express Epg www TELl satellite com advanced and fast scan More advanced readers would know that the auto matic search is based on the transponder data for every satellite preprogrammed into memory by the manu facturer The manual mode allows you to search only one transponder that you select from the list for a giv en Satellite The advanced mode lets you not only select a specific transponder but also specify video audio and PCR PID s of the channel you w
3. STC6000HD PVR came with 99 transponders stored in its pre programmed memo ry for this satellite The au tomatic channel scan with network search turned off took 7 minutes and 22 sec onds 1274 TV and 383 radio channels FTA and scram bled altogether were found We reset the box and re started the automatic scan with network search turned on Naturally the scan last ed longer 10 minutes and 5 seconds The number of channels found increased to 1454 TV and 384 radio channels After another factory re set we started the Blind Scan The result was very good indeed 8 minutes and 30 seconds and 1477 TV channels and 409 radio channels It looks as though the fu ture belongs to Blind Scan It does not take much longer than an automatic scan but it consistently manages to find more channels even when compared with a network lO 11 20I1 TELE satellite Global Digital TV Magazine 69 Noursat ALE KINO l Amori di Mamma p Language Setting 18 29 14 May 2011 Sat Menu Language Nii y e e Ss e search The STC6000HD PVR lets you limit the blind scan to one polarization only or to FTA only or TV only If you are the happy owner of the STC6000HD PVR and have the nature of a true DXer you should opt for the Blind Scan rather than any of the other channel search modes Only in this way can you find channels that the others modes will be com pletely unaware of After a successful search o
4. screen graphics However behind all of this elegance must be exceptional performance otherwise what s the point The buyer of a luxury car automatically expects that its external appearance and internal comfort will be complemented by a power ful engine But what about the STC6000HD PVR We examined this receiver very closely for our TELE satellite a readers Let s start with the box Its front panel is equipped with a large 12 character bluish white dot matrix vac uum fluorescent display It s not all that bright so won t distract you when watching TV in a dark room The VFD shows the channel name menu name or time There are only five buttons on the front panel channel up down volume up down and standby It would seem that their purpose is more to quickly check if the box is operational than for any thing else As is typical the right hand side of the front panel is actually a drop down flap behind which you ll find two Universal smart card read ers two Common Interface connectors for CA modules and one USB port This is just the first one of three such ports the other two are located on the rear pan el The rear panel has eve rything you might expect There are two tuner inputs with corresponding looped through outputs HDMI and S PDIF digital video and audio outputs all sorts of analog outputs composite RGB YPbPr video and stereo audio as well as a number of data ports t
5. 7 minutes and 30 seconds During our tests we noticed that the receiver can recog nize a change in QAM mode on the fly and process the Signals without the need to rescan the band That is un expectedly nice feature Before finishing the instal lation process it is a good idea to check the A V set tings and see if they are op timized for your TV set Ex cept for typical settings like picture aspect ratio we can also set the HDMI output resolution up to 1080p here Not too many receivers can do that Most of them can only produce 1080i so this is another plus for the STC6000HD PVR Note that if the resolu tion is set greater than 576i there is no video output on the SCART or RCA analog outputs there s only a mes sage informing you that the resolution is set too high for this output Although there are receivers available that can produce downscaled 576i video on the SCART ICECRMEBRII Easy Find LNB OM Extended Signal W 19 26 Astra lFiM ee Ml 13 0E Hotbird6 Sesame W 5 0E Sinus 4 i W 7 0 Eutelsat W3A M 9 0E Eurobird 9A W 10 0E Eutelsat W2A W 16 0 Eutelsat w2 W 21 5 Eutelsat W6 Select Unselect Easy Find LNB OM Cable Search gt Search Mode y x j and Tur j Move Services Delete Services Skip Services Sort Lists Default Select Edit Mode RCA outputs while gener ating an HD picture
6. Yamada Japonia USA 2009 21 wyk Y Saso M Yui Wi hea Y Abe A Cole K Fleming R Fleming L Fujihashi Mamoru Amagaya jest zagubionym m odym cz owiekiem Pewnego dnia rzuca prac w kt rej by ponizany i wyrusza w podr podczas kt rej odzyskuj c poszczeg lne eA s i a a er re Rower 85 gt gt gt gt gt gt a to 18 2 18 5 11278 V 27499 of memory installed in the STC6000HD PVR The STC6000HD PVR s User Manual is very well written and very well organ ized The explanations of the receiver s functions and features are detailed and precise although the screen shots are a little bit too small and are hard to read without a magnifying glass On a few occasions when we wanted to refer to the user manual we found what we were looking for very quickly beginning with the index located at the very beginning of the manual and then jumping to the right page It s a well struc tured user manual The OSD is in full color and high resolution exactly as it should be for such a high class model When turning on the receiver for the first time the STC6000HD PVR asks you to select a lan guage The receiver comes with an extensive choice of OSD languages English French German Dutch Greek Spanish Arabic Italian Portuguese Turk ish Russian Polish Czech Swedish Finnish Danish Norwegian Slovak Sloveni an Macedonian Romanian Serbian and Hungar
7. ant to find and process Blind Scan is still something fairly new to satellite TV but is quite common to terrestrial TV sets The box scans the fre quency spectrum and when it detects a transponder it tries to recognize its param eters Generally Blind Scan mode is still not completely reliable in satellite boxes because the transponder s parameters can vary quite a bit and there are no fixed channel plans The last option Fast Scan was a kind of puzzle to us After playing with the box for a while we realized that this mode is used to search for channels of specific sat ellite TV providers Our box had two such providers pre programmed Canal Digital and TV Vlaanderen If you happen to be a subscriber to one of them it will pro 6 Information box of a radio channel 7 Simple channel list shows also current programs 8 Channel list 9 EPGinaclassical grid mode 10 Detailed EPG of a single channel ICECRMBRII vide you with a convenient speedy channel search The satellite list of the STC6000HD PVR contains no fewer than 162 satel lites from all over the world That s a huge number but there was one satellite miss ing Express AM4 at 11 0 west So we used one of the four spare satellites in the list called User 01 through User 04 and edited it Next it was time to check the receiver s channel scan ning speed As usual we se lected HOTBIRD at 13 east as our test satellite The
8. es Fe OT HDTV Combo Receiver w i D UU icecrypt z D it i j a a R 2 B Ly w p is Beer i gt a OC o e waa i of ea a wit oi AN SRS AN t i a a A PO NA N S A SES ee E E A AN a ager aN P N cn a 3 EA poa Re i mms a a o A ZKA i D We leat pa e Sa U SF i X R D gt SA a A 1E ss eee V v g ar A 4 a Ga is T I a if TELE satellite Magazine Business Voucher Direct Contact to Sales Manager e Superbly designed an remote control e Very fast Blind Scan e Many useful features e Well thought out EPG and channel handling e Very large channel memory makes the box well suited for motorized dishes TELE satellite Global Digital TV Magazine www T LE soatellite com www TEL satellite com 10 II 20ll TELE satellite Global Digital TV Magazine TEST REPORT HDTV Combo Receiver An Aristocrat among Double Tuner Boxes You can tell right from the start that this Linux based receiver is a top class model Even the cooling slots on the top cover are arranged in a nice pattern not just in a simple grid This initial im pression is confirmed again and again as you familiarize yourself with this receiver And it s not just the look and feel of the box and its remote control but also the style of its on
9. f the HOTBIRD transpond ers we decided to test its USALS operation and force the box to search 25 satel lites from 30 west to 45 east The process ended up with about 1700 TV and 1300 radio FTA channels The STC6000HD PVR s memory was only 30 occupied as its capacity is 10 000 TV and radio channels The box had absolutely no problem receiving SCPC channels and easily dealt with weak transponders Obviously the tuner in the STC6000HD PVR is quite good After being that successful with satellite channels we moved on to cable channels We used our cable head end equipment to generate a package of DVB C channels We tried all QAM modes from QAM 16 to QAM 256 The STC6000HD PVR had no trouble locking on and processing these channels 11 Mosaic view 12 Picture in picture basic mode 13 Picture in picture side by side mode 14 Selecting the language of channel subtitles 15 Language settings 3l IV Magazine 10 IIl720Il www TELE s atellite com We checked the reception of very weak signals and very strong signals yes this can sometimes happen in ca ble networks The receiver performed very well and was able to process signals even well outside its speci fications For example the STC6000HD PVR was able to process cable signals as strong as 47 dBmV even though the specifications only promise a range from 15 dBmV to 25 dBmvV To scan the entire frequency band the box needed
10. ian The Same languages are avail able for the first preferred audio the second preferred audio the first preferred subtitle language the sec ond preferred subtitle lan guage and the preferred teletext language We noticed that the choice of OSD language has an im pact on the program name description in the channel info box For example when you watch a Russian chan nel the program name can 1 System Tools menu 2 Configuration menu 3 Installation menu 4 Utilities menu 5 Info bar with extended information displayed 68 Tele salellite Global Digital TV Magazine 10 11 2011 www TELe satellite com be displayed with strange fonts But as soon as you switch the OSD language to Rus sian the program name is displayed properly using the Cyrillic alphabet The next step is setting your time zone Daylight Savings Time is also sup ported The STC6000HD PVR can be set up to behave like an alarm clock It can automatically turn on and display a selected channel at the preset time of day This is an interesting option for a total TV addict for whom starting a day with a favorite TV channel in the morning is an absolute must A sleep timer can also be configured here After finishing these ad ministrative tasks it was time for more interesting steps setting up an an tenna system and searching for channels When you en ter the antenna setup menu you can immediately see that all DiSEqC p
11. on the HDMI output Icecrypt has chosen not to do that Nor mally it s not a problem for the user It doesn t happen too often where you need to watch HD content on an HDMI output and still need a downscaled video version at the same time Right after the channel scan the box shows you the first FTA channel This is a small but nice feature if the first channel in the list hap pens to be a scrambled one you are not presented with a black screen but instead are taken to the first FTA chan nel Channel surfing is a pleasure Switching between MCPC FTA channels takes Slightly over one second When you switch to a really low symbol rate channel like DIYALA 11071 H SR 2099 on Atlantic Bird 2 at 8 west it takes about three seconds Similarly when you switch to a scrambled channel it also takes longer around 2 3 seconds You can watch scram bled channels because the STC6000HD PVR has two Slots for smart cards and two CI connectors for CA modules During our tests the receiver worked very well with a SECA Nagravi sion card as well as with a VIACCESS card Of course it s always a good idea to consult the receiver vendor to make sure that it will work with a specific PayTV system you are subscribed to There are two channel list versions One is accessible in the classic way by press ing the OK button The other a simplified one is accessed by pressing the up or down arrow buttons The simpli fied ve
12. outers so in most cases you won t need to con figure anything Once con nected you can watch video clips on YouTube a regular menu option in the receiver or even surf any other pages if you use a plug in called WebZeal The WebZeal plug in is a web browser and was pre installed by the manu facturer Since this is a Linux based receiver additional soft ware can be installed in the STC6000HD This could be software downloaded from the Icecrypt home page for example a new version of WebZeal or it could be plug ins developed by inde N wat pendent programmers We expect that more and more interesting plug ins will eventually become avail able for the STC6000HD PVR and as an owner of this re ceiver you ll have a lot of fun trying them out Last but not least we want to highlight the ability to save your channel lists and other settings to the at tached storage devices It s an excellent feature that will let you quickly restore all your channel and favorites lists after upgrading your software Overall the STC6000HD PVR is not only very el egant and classy but also extremely convenient and fast It will satisfy not only regular family users but also demanding DX ers and sat ellite enthusiasts SS ff Yi a A NN Experropimior combinations Numerous data interfaces Very fast and pleasant operation due to a pow erful processor and amount of RAM Flexible design allowing various DVB t
13. pply AC 100 250 V 50 60 Hz Power consumption 55 W max 1 W max in deep standby mode Dimensions 340 x 60 x 230 mm Weight 2kg Operating temperature 0 45 C ENERGY DIAGRAM S Power W 8 Active Power 10 II 72011 5 minutes shallow standby mode next 5 minutes operational mode with playing back a recording from an external USB HD last 5 minutes deep standby mode TELE satellite Global Digital TV Magazine 75
14. rotocols are Supported 1 0 1 1 and 1 2 along with USALS which is also sometimes referred to as DiSEqC 1 3 The LOF s of the LNB are selected in two steps You first define whether it is a single band universal or SCR model and then you choose the right LOF frequency The LOF cannot be entered manually but the drop down menu offers you a long list to choose from 5150 9750 1000 10050 10300 10600 10750 11200 11250 11300 and 11475 for sin gle LOFs and 9750 10600 and 9750 10750 for univer sal LNBs If you opt for an SCR LNB you do not have a choice of LOFs In our model the channel search was divided into two submenus Satellite Search and Cable Search Satellite Search offered as many as five different search modes automatic manual blind i4 May 2011 Sat j No Information 4 30 0W Hispasat L 73 J 73 g gt gt gt gt gt Aastha House Of Fun Flava Top 20 R amp B Singles Char Bliss Buss Hits E i Scuzz Pantera vs Slipknot DanceNationTv Dance Nation In The Mix True Movies 1 lo True Movies 2 a Child Lost Forever T Tiny Pop wenty amp Cceeser NME Tv 30 Acts That Rocked Do POP Hereport Tiny Pop 1 Aesop s Theatre Kix unimate musde The Vault Pop Domination PopGirl Pretty Cure 28 2E Astra 2A 2 Aastha All Service House Of Fun 19 2E Astra iF 1M Flava 13 0E Hotbird6 9 Bliss 5 0E Sirius 4 Scuzz 7 0E Eutelsat W3A True Movies 1
15. rsion shows just the channel names in the left column and the correspond ing current program names in the right column In this way you can very quickly scan what s on TV at that moment The regular version pro vides much more informa tion about the channels sat ellites and favorite lists You can not only sort channels in different ways by name transponder CAS provider and tuner and filter them by satellite or favorite group but also find a channel by entering the first letters of its name You can also assign chan nels to a selected favorite list The receiver initially comes with ten favorites lists with preset names Drama News Music etc However you can rename them as desired and even add additional lists More channel related op erations are possible after entering the Service List Manager In this submenu you can do all the tricks you ve come to expect de leting moving renaming locking or skipping a chan nel What we would like to emphasize is the ease of use of this manager Everything is optimized There are very P100 100 TELEVIDEO Sa 14 Mag 18 41 07 oe EIEI N F 5s 101 103 200 3o00 400 420 S00 S590 eoo 770 a 72 TELE salellite Global Digital TV Magazine 10 11 2011 www TELE satellite com In viaggio Ambiente e Natura few receivers out there that let you delete unnecessary channels from a long list as fast and conveniently as the STC6000HD PVR
16. tion The receiver consumes 15 W in shallow standby and is only slightly less than what is consumed in operate mode 20 W The STC6000HD PVR al lows you to record more than one channel at a time The exact number depends on the data transfer rate of the connected memory de vice The STC6000HD PVR has a special test function in its menu When started it measures the performance of a USB stick or external HDD and displays what you can expect We checked a contempo rary 8 GB USB stick con nected to one of the receiv er s USB ports The receiver informed us that we can ei ther record two HD channels at the same time or record one HD channel while using the time shift feature These are excellent results that everyone should be satisfied with Based on these results we attempted two HD re cordings simultaneously The quality of the record ings when played back left speed cooking USA Full Screen Location Q Category www TELl satellite com nothing to be desired The video and audio were per fect and no MPEG artifacts were visible or audible The STC6000HD PVR not only stored the audio video of the channel but also the al ternative soundtracks and program description as presented in the EPG And that s not all It also record ed subtitles You cant edit the re cordings directly with the STC6000HD PVR you have to use your PC for this pur pose However you can set bookmarks at an
17. to list them all But we ll try any way One nice feature is PIP picture in picture You can watch two channels simulta neously The main one fills the en tire screen while the other is muted and shown in a small insert You can choose the second channel you want to see from a drop down menu Of course if your version of the STC6000HD PVR has only one DVB S2 tuner you are limited to the same transponder and cable chan nels You can also watch two channels in equal size side by side Another nice feature is the multi picture display or mo saic display You can watch nine or twelve channels ar ranged in a mosaic and you moooi A Megezine S 10 1172011 can navigate between them One channel is live the rest are shown as frozen frames When you surf between channels you often encoun ter some channels that are very loud or others that are very quiet Icecrypt has a remedy for that You can in dividually set each channel audio level to be played nor mally increased by 30 or reduced by 30 It s a really helpful feature You can configure the STC6000HD PVR to auto matically add some time before and or after each re cording If you want to re cord something important it might not be a bad idea to use this function because schedules may not always be completely accurate If you have access to the Internet you can connect the STC6000HD PVR to your LAN It s compatible with DHCP r
18. uner Compatible with Linux plug ins Elegant hardware and stylish OSD Jacek Pawlowski TELE satellite Test Center Poland Software occasionally hangs up though you can always restart the box with the standby button Small bug for owners of motorized dishes Blind Scan func tion does not drive a USALS motor TECHNICAL Manufacturer DATA Icecrypt Sittingbourne United Kingdom ICECRMBRII Webpage www icecrypt com Email info icecrypt com Fax 44 1795 427 666 Model STC6000HD PVR Function Two tuner HD receiver with Linux OS Choice of tuners DZA DVB C DVB T or DVB T2 Input range of DBA tuner 950 2150 MHz 65 to 25 dBm Input range of DVB C tuner 50 MHz 1 GHz QAM 16 QAM 256 1Ms sec 7 Ms sec 15 dBmV 25 dBmV Input range of DVB T and DVB T2 tuners VHF Ill 174 230 MHz UHF IV 470 606 MHz UHF V 606 862 MHz DiSEqC 1 0 1 1 1 2 USALS HDMI output SCART Analog A V outputs Component video output S Video output yes UHF modulator no 0 12V connector no Digital audio output optical S PDIF EPG yes C Ku Band compatible yes SCPC compatible yes PVR function yes USB 2 0 ports 3x Ethernet yes E SATA yes Main processor STi chipset Memory Flash ROM 64 Mbytes SDRAM 256 Mbytes EEPROM 256 Bytes Power su
19. wo rear USB ports an e SATA port for an external HDD an RS 232 in terface and an Ethernet jack for a local area network The sample that we re ceived for testing came with a DVB S2 tuner and a DVB C tuner However any combi nation of DVB S2 DVB C DVB T or DVB T2 is possi ble You can order a version of the STC6000HD PVR that www 1EL soatellite com satetvife Icecrypt STC6000HD PVR Well designed features in a well designed box Suits your needs The remote control is rather large but that makes it very easy to operate The labels are very legible Sur prisingly the remote control does not come with a stand ard rubber keyboard Each button has its own micro Switch beneath a cap Eve ry microswitch generates a very distinctive clicking sound and has a very crisp feel to it Its operation is very reliable Every push of a button is registered by the receiver and you don t have to worry about how fast you push a series of buttons the box reacts instantly to your ac tions This is due not only to the design of the remote control unit but also to the high power of the micropro cessor unit and the amount y Effic lt 2 Sp ICECRMERII EUS Tape M ain Menu Timer Settings vice List Manager Data Transfer PMain Menu Cable Search work Setting System Recovery System Information PlugIn rouTube Rower 18 20 14 Maj 18 50 14 Maj Rower Jitensha re D
20. y point in the recording so that you can jump to it when watch ing it again This is probably the simplest way of getting rid of the commercial breaks that might be inserted in a recorded movie The recordings are stored as files with a TS extension If you use a suitable PC ap plication you can convert this to a file that can be used to burn a DVD Time shifting worked equally well in our tests This function may be set to work either manually the box starts recording when the Pause button is pressed or automatically the box re cords A V all the time from 16 Dish Settings menu 17 Configuring channel search 18 Cable channel search settings are simpler to set than the satellite ones 19 Channel manager 20 Teletext 21 YouTube browser with search panel activated 22 List of installed plugins ICECRMEBRII SLEEP TWRAD Resolution Source TPlugin py 2011 Sat Mcas coconut ExSIM rt Type Started Auto Started Auto Started Auto Xcamclent lO I172011 TELE satellite Global Digital TV Magazine 73 ICECRMEBRII the moment we switch to another channel The timer buffer for automatic record ing can be set for example to 120 minutes The STC6000HD PVR lets you not only play back pre viously recorded content but also multimedia files stored on your disk like MP3 JPG MPG or DivX AVI The STC6000HD PVR has so many functions and fea tures that it s difficult
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