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Download SatcoDX Software Version 3.10 Activation Code, or with an outdated Activi- from the above URL, or install from CD-ROM ation Code. However, the satellite data on TELE SATELLITE INTERNATIONAL Note: if you have already installed Version Main Address: 3.10, you do not need to do it again. Check TELE-satellite International your currently PO Box 1234 installed ver- 85766 Munich-Ufg sion by click- GERMANY/EUROPA UNION ing the HELP Editor-in-Chief: button, then Alexander Wiese ABOUT. The third line tells you the version display will be either from last time you per- [email protected] installed on your computer formed an update, or from the time when Published by: 2. Enter the Activation Code by clicking original software has been compiled. By TELE-satellite Medien GmbH, Germany LICENSE and then REGISTRATION. After default, each SatcoDX software contains the entering Activation Code click VALIDATE KEY set of satellite data as current as when it was Design/Production and EXIT. 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Qatar: Dar Al Sharq Printing Saudi Arabia: Saudi Distribution South Africa: MCS - Caxton Sweden: Svenska Interpress AB Thailand: Infosat Intertrade UAE: Emirates Printing Publishing UK: International Press Network USA: Prestige Periodicals Copyright © 2007 by TELE-satellite ISSN 1435-7003 Print Channel Lists With Satellite Footprints in HTML Format Printed in SPAIN/EUROPA UNION www.TELE-satellite.com/eng Save Chart Data in many useful file formats Member of Distripress CONTENT ARION AF-8000HDCI HDTV digital satellite receiver ...................................14 Dear TOPFIELD TF6000PVRE Digital DVB-S PVR receiver Readers with Ethernet interface ...............18 WIRELESS SMARTWI Card splitter with wireless radio transmission ................22 The HDTV receiver we present in Of course, any HDTV screen will the issue has become my personal create missing pixels on its own Beginner section: favourite for the moment. The without a scaler in order to fill the Why do receivers have secret is its integrated scaler which whole screen, but it simply doubles two LNB jacks? ...............................10 upgrades standard television signals existing lines, while a scaler has an Feature: to simulate HDTV. We’re of course intelligent way of ‘inventing’ missing Antenna Underperformance only talking about a technical trick lines. The previous issue of TELE- Due to Misalignment ........................12 here which can never really be satellite reported on how a video Company report: considered as a replacement for scaler actually works. Dish Manufacturer INFOSAT, Thailand 24 native HDTV, but this is not my point. What really matters is that we An HDTV receiver with an integrated Country report: Satellite Business in Winnipeg, are able to use an expensive HDTV scaler can give you the impression of Manitoba, Canada ............................28 screen to the last available pixel. watching high-resolution television A combination of HDTV screen and all the time, even though true HDTV TELE-satellite Receiver Guide .........30 HDTV receiver only really starts to programs are still quite rare these Company report: pay off if both components can show days. Satellite Wholesaler their advantages with all channels. max communication, Germany ..........32 Yours, Company report: At least that’s the way I see it: if Alexander Wiese HDTV Broadcaster you buy a top-notch flatscreen TV Euro1080, Belgium ...........................36 and an expensive HDTV receiver Company report: then these gadgets should by used PS: My favourite radio station this Receiver Manufacturer to the max – not only if one of the month is Juize FM (ASTRA 19.2° Fortec Communications America .........40 rare genuine HDTV channels can be East, 12.574 H, 22,000, Audio 229), Company report: received, but all of the time. which plays non-stop hip-hop. 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Heinz Koppitz In and out: which cable goes into which socket – and why? With this particular receiver the cable from the LNB goes into the IF INPUT, while a second receiver can be connected using the LOOP output. The TV picture cre- ated by the receiver can be transmitted to the TV via the TO TV jack, and the terres- trial antenna is hooked up to the ANT. IN jack. State-of-the-art technology can do really A setup like this might be more convenient much. Sometimes even too much, and that’s than it first appears to be. In Europe there when it sometimes gets out of hand. Which are still some analog transponders in use so basic features does a receiver really need, that it can make sense to connect an analog and which features are nothing more than receiver to the digital receiver. Radio enthu- nice add-on features? siasts might use this possibility to connect an ADR receiver to the main digital receiver. Let’s have a look at the antenna connection, It may also make sense to set up a kind of which links the receiver to the LNB. There is cascade with two or any number of additional one global type of connection, the so-called receivers, in which each box has its specific F-type socket. The cable originating from the purpose such as TV or radio reception, or satellite antenna is equipped with an F-type the reception of free-to-air or encrypted pro- connector