Technomat TF6900

Gentleman_1

Anyone has seen this model and tried it? It looks like a hot deal. 2 high definition tuners, recording and can be patched. Sounds hot. Any ideas?

Yeshi

if its anything like the tm9100 i would stay well clear.

EDW

Shame there's no network card. PVR is with external hard drive so more clutter under the telly, dvb-t tuner is better than two sat tuners for me and hd freeview coming next year? If it were cheaper I might get one at say £200. I think Maplin still doing Fortec for £150 last time I looked.


2 High Definition Tuners: DVB-S/DVB-S2 Satellite & DVB-T Terrestrial Compliant (MPEG-II/ MPEG-IV/ H.264)
* Output Resolution: 576p & 576i, 720p & 1080i
* 1 Smart Card Reader & 2 Common Interfaces (2CI)
* HDMI & Component Output (YPbPr) with Upscaler to Improve Picture Quality
* 10,000 TV & Radio Channels
* USB2.0 PVR Ready via external HDD or USB Flash Drive (memory stick) with Timeshift, Record & Playback functions
* MP3 player and JPEG viewer via external HDD or USB Flash Drive (memory stick)
* Software & Channel List download via USB 2.0
* Fully Featured VFD text Front Panel Display
* Sensitive Tuner
* Less than 1 second channel change
* Dolby Digital Optical S/PDIF
* DiSEqC 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3 (USALS) compatible
* Auto Navigation system – select as many satellites as you want to search
* On-screen display with true full color resolution
* Enhanced 16 Favorite channel groups
* Channel control by: Favorites, Lock, Skip, Move & Delete
* Channel sort by: All, Alphabet, Transponder & CAS
* Multilingual OSD Menu: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Persian
* Extended EPG and program reservation on EPG
* Teletext & Subtitle by OSD and VBI
* Last channel memory function
* Factory default channel list
* Various games
* Software & channel list upgrade via RS-232C: PC to STB, STB to PC, STB-STB and USB
* Parental, Installation & Receiver Lock
* Zoom function on Pause & Live channel
* Multipicture display
* Support for multiple language broadcasts
* SCPC & MCPC receivable from C/Ku band satellites LNBs supported: Universal, Single, Single S & C band wideband LNBs
* Multi TV Standards supported: PAL G, I, K, M & NTSC M with 4:3 & 16:9 Screen Formats
* 90-250V AC 50/60 Hz
* LNB Short Circuit protection onboard
* 2 Scarts, (RGB, CVBS) & S-Video

Gentleman_1

But lets look at it differently. The wired network connection in other boxes may not be very practical and a wireless connection is going to be needed anyway so since this one takes a wireless PCMCIA network adapter then it is not a big disadvantage not to have it. Also, the external hard drive is easier to connect to a computer and gives more freedome in that regard, dont you think? Now how about the manifactureship? how about the pic quality? does it do a good job? This is the question. Lets not forget that the price is way less than a double hi def recording box that CAN be patched. The DM8000 is about double that price,,,,