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2 0. INTRODUCTION Welcome to the world of new digital satellite receiver that will make your life richer and closer to your dream. Before using your new receiver, we recommend to read this manual carefully for your own safety and correct opera...

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3 Press the MENU key on the RCU (Remote Control Unit) to make the main menu appeared. In some menus, you are asked to put the PIN (Personal Identification Number) code as a password. Factory default password is '0000'. 2.1 How t...

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4 3. BEFORE YOU BEGIN 3.1 Advanced Features ■ Application and Expansion. LINUX O/S enables ultimate applications and expansions to fulfill the customer’s need. ■ Almost Unlimited Channel Memory up to 4,000 channels ■ Enhanced Searc...

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5 0. INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................2 1. SAFETY INFORMATION..................................................................................................

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6 11.2.6. Reorder channels. ........................................................................................................... 28 11.3. Favorite Channel List ..................................................................................

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7 13.6.2. AUTO (DHCP) ................................................................................................................. 45 13.6.3. AUTO (PPPoE)...........................................................................................

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8 5. REMOTE CONTROL UNIT (UNIVERSAL TYPE) To switch On / Off For Mute To make RCU respond to TV set To make RCU respond to STB To toggle between TV and Radio mode To recall previous channel when you watc...

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9 To go to Main menu and move back to previous page. Navigation-Buttons enable to make channel Up & Down on the live channels and move the cursor Up & Down in the OSD-menu. Also to make volume increased & decreased on the c...

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11 5.1. Programming the remote control for your TV set. This Universal type remote control works for both TV and PVR. There are two ways to program the remote control; Automatic Code Search and Direct Entry. 5.1.1 Using automatic code sear...

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12 1. Press and hold the STB component key until the LED on the remote control turns on. 2. Enter 3-digit code, 9 9 9 . 3. Press and release the STB component key, then the LED blinks three times. 5.1.4. Unlocking the volume control. If you w...

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13 3. DIGIT LED DISPLAY This will display the current channel or certain programming functions when it is turned on. 4. MENU Press this button to display the Main Menu page and to go to previous menu with saving changed values. 5. EXIT ...

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14 7. REAR PANEL CONNECTIONS CONNECTORS AND DEFINITIONS 1. AC IN (Power Cord) Connect this lead to the mains outlet (110-220 V AC 50/60 Hz) after all other connections have been made. 2. IF INPUT Connect the IF cable from your L...

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15 Audio outputs for connecting to a stereo amplifier. 10. RS-232 Connect your PC via this connector using a NULL MODEM female to female RS232 cable when you wish to upgrade the system software or for external Dial up MODEM 11. SPDIF Digi...

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16 B. Connect the TV to the VCR with RCA cable Connect one end of RCA (RED: Audio right, White: Audio left, and Yellow: Video) to STB and the other end of RCA to the TV. 8.1.3 Additional audio connection with Hi-Fi system Connect on...

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17 8.2 Dish Connection Most effective and common setting methods are suggested below. Please choose one of these ways to connect the dish-antennas and follow the instructions. Please carefully review the instructions before you install. ...

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18 9. BEFORE SETTING 9.1 Menu Information Selectable lines are generally activated (highlighted). No-activated lines are not selectable. Most of OSD- menus show short information at the bottom of the screen. 9.2 Basic Key Control Wi...

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19 10.3. LNB setting. The LNB Setting menu will appear automatically right after adjusting the Local Time. Select the Number of LNBs(number of satellites that you wish to search) by pressing right direction button on the RCU, then press ...

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20 10.4. Scanning the satellites. 10.4.1. Automatic This is to scan all the channels of the satellites you setup in LNB Setting menu. Set Satellite Name, Network Search option and Search Method option by pressing LEFT/RIGHT button a...

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21 10.4.2. Manual . This is to scan channels on specific TP. Set Satellite Name, Frequency, Symbol Rate, Polarity values. You can press OK to check the values on Frequency and Symbol Rate menu or press NUMERIC buttons to input values direc...

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22 11. HOT BUTTONS This section explains various hot button’s function while watching TV or listening to Radio. These buttons enable to reach the desired function or menu directly by pressing them. 11.1 TV or Radio Channel List While w...

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23 11.1.2 Channel Three options are available; ‘All’ ‘Favorite’ ‘Satellite’. The channels also can be sorted by All, Favorite, Satellite 11.1.3. Sort It allows you to sort the channels by Default, A to Z, Z to A,...

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24 11.2. Edit in the Channel List To Switch into Channel Edit mode, press i button on the RCU. 11.2.1. To Favorite Move to Favorite by pressing the right direction button and then press OK button to bring the favorite add li...

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25 You can create a new favorite category (make FAV Group) if needed, also rename the existing favorite group. When the rename procedure is completed, press Enter key. ...

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26 Multi Selection Mode In case that you wish to hide the several channels continuously, press the right direction button and then insert the password to hide one by one. 11.2.3. Lock Select the channel you wish to lock ...

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27 Multi Selection Mode If you wish to lock the several channels continuously, press the right direction button and then insert the password. You can lock one by one. 11.2.4. Rename Change the selected channel’s name by using virtual key ...

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28 Multi Selection Mode When you wish to delete several channels continuously, press the right direction button of and insert the password. After this, you can delete the channels one by one. 11.2.6. Reorder channels. ...

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29 11.3. Favorite Channel List While watching TV or listening to Radio, the favorite channel list is available anytime by pressing the FAV button on the remote controller. The default favorite groups are Sports, Drama, News, Movie and Music....

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30 11.3.5. Reorder FAV. List Reorder the selected FAV. List. To reorder FAV. Group, select a group or channel that you wish to reorder by high-lightening it and Move to Reorder FAV. List and press OK button, then move the FAV group. ...

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31 Search channels schedules by using the navigation-buttons up/down and left/right to move the highlights. Press the EPG button on the remote control, the TV electronic program guide (EPG) will appear. If you press once, list type of EPG ...

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32 11.4.1. Mode Press the Red button, to switch into TV or Radio channel mode. 11.4.2. Channel Press the Green button at the button on the RCU, and select one of options from All, Favorite and SAT. It displays EPG information on your se...

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33 EPG data will show up depends on EPG availability of providers of satellite. Category: Select genre of a programs. (Movie/News/ Sports etc) Sub Category: Select sub-category of programs (Adult movie / Romance / Comedy etc) Program nam...

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34 11.5. Channel Information Info bar appears by pressing the button. If you press twice, channel details are also available. The info bar shows all necessary information about the selected channel. Any highlighted icon in yellow on th...

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35 11.8 Audio Setting Press the AUDIO button on the remote controller; to select an audio language and sound mode. Mix / Mono Left / Mono Right, Audio languages are selectable by pressing Left/Right di...

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36 11.9 Premiere Multifeed function When you move to ‘main feed’ and press the audio button on the remote controller twice, then Multifeed List (channels) will appear. 11.10. OSD teletext. OSD teletext is available ...

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37 12. USER’S OPTION 12.1 User’s setting 12.1.1. Banner Time Out Select the time-out length for information banner from 2 to 10seconds. ...

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38 12.1.2. Subtitle Select subtitle display ON/ OFF. Default setting is ON. 12.1.3. Banner type Select a preferable banner type for channel info. There are two types banners are available (normal and simple type). Simple type ...

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39 12.2.1. Maturity Control Select the age limit form OFF, 5, 8, 10, 13, 15 to 18 for programs. If the contents have parental guide information, channels will be locked automatically according to the option. 12.2.2. System Lock Switch Syst...

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40 12.3. Language 12.3.1. Menu Language Select a language for Menus, dialog boxes, and help messages. 12.3.2. Audio Language Select an audio language for the program with multilingual audio. 12.3.3. Subtitle Language Select a subtitle lang...

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41 13. SYSTEM SETUP 13.1 TV Output 13.1.1. Aspect Ratio Select 4:3 PS(Pan & Scan) or 4:3 LB(Letter Box) for Standard TV or 16:9 for wide screen TV. 13.1.2. Output type Select a right output format for the TV set.( CVBS, RGB, ...

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42 13.3. Channel search Auto search and Manual search are available. To search one specific desired channel, manual search is recommended. Please refer to website www.lyngSat.com to find out channel information (Frequency, Symbol Rate and Polar...

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43 13.3.3. Advanced Search Video PID: Enter the correct VIDEO PID value by using numeric buttons on the RCU. Audio PID: Enter the correct AUDIO PID value by using numeric buttons. PCR PID: Enter the correct PCR PID value using numeric Butt...

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44 13.5 USALS setting USALS is very convenient motorized DiSEqC system that support DiSEqC 1.3 command and also can get the satellite position automatically if you know your geographical location. If you have USALS motorized system, then ...

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45 SUBMIT button. IP: Enter your IP address to specify the host IP address. Subnet mask: Enter the subnet mask here to find Host IP address in its Subnet. Gateway: Enter the gateway values. 13.6.2. AUTO (DHCP) For the VDSL or ICS cli...

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46 13.6.3. AUTO (PPPoE) For the ADSL users ID and Password (which acquired from internet service provider) are required here; enter the values by using virtual Keyboard. Press OK button to bring the Virtual Key board. 13.6.3. ...

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47 13.7. Restore Factory Setting It requires your PIN to access the Factory reset. It removes Channel List, FAV List, LNB Settings and it restores original factory settings. To restore factory settings, press ok. All settings will be deleted. ...

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48 14. PVR OPERATION 1 channel recording and 1 recorded channel playback. 14.1. Recording To record a live channel, press button to record a channel that you are currently watching. In the channel list, a channel in ...

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49 The default recording time is two hours, recording time can be set up to maximum 23h 59min. FILE-> Record plan->New-> Duration. A recording notice pop-up will appear for two minutes before the recording starts. I...

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50 3. Record Plan Shows currently recording files and reserved recording list. 14.3. Record plan Press Left/Right direction button and move to RESERVATION and select options 1. New New recording plan can be made in this section by select...

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51 14.6 Book mark Press the button, to make a book mark on the time bar where you want. If you want to move to next book mark, press PLAY button to jump to next book mark To remove book mark on the time bar, press the ...

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52 14.8. Repeat Press repeat button to repeat in the pointed book marks If there are not any marked points, the whole section can be repeated instead of two points. To exit from the repeat function, press Repeat button once more. 14.9. ...

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53 frame by frame. Press PLAY button to move back to normal play mode. 15. File list management Press FILE button to move to File List Management. Yellow Button: Record Plan shows the reserved recordings’ status. Record p...

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54 Detailed Recording plan information is available by pressing OK button. To move highlights, use the navigation- button. Recording option editing is also available in this OSD-Menu. To exit from FILE Management press ...

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55 16. ABOUT 16.1. System Info It displays Micom Version, Boot Version, Linux Version, Program Version and first date of operation. 16.2. Network Info. It displays network info such as IP address, Subnet mask, Gateway et...

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56 16.3. Network Update Latest S/W can be updated via Ethernet port using network update system. 16.4. PlugIns ...

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57 16.5. Mount Manager 1. Type (cifs : accessing to Windows PC, nfs : accessing to Linux PC) 2. Mount point: Point for the mounting of the mp3 files in STB 3. Server : IP address of the server PC that your computer has 4. Directory : Folder...

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58 17. SOFT WARE UPGRAD Downloading Flash Images via SERIAL cable. How to Download New Flash Images by SERIAL Make sure that all the S/W upgrade utilities (Flash tools)...

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59 Downloading Flash Images via NETWORK(UTP cable) using PC editor 1. IP setup in PC editor : it should be same IP address with STB 2. select “flash image” menu ...

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60 3. select a proper USB image for STB ( not serial image) 4. pressing “Start” *Note: You should check the version of bootloader. If it does not fit with application software, you should download a new bootloader by using serial cable...

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61 Items "1. 0xff800000-0x040000 : ""config_welcome"" "2. 0xff840000-0x120000 : ""kernel"" "3. 0xff960000-0x 380000 : ""root""" "4. 0xffee0000-0x2f0000 : "...

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62 18. GLOSSARY OF TERMS CA Conditional Access. A system to control subscriber access to services/ programs. RF Radio frequency (known as HF in some countries). Polarization Polarization all...

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63 19. TROUBLE SHOOTING Problem Possible Causes What ToDo No display appeared on front Power cord is not plugged in. Check that power cord Wrong Audio/ Video output connection between the receiver and TV set. Mut...

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64 20. PRODUCT SPECIFITION Part Type Specification Type IBM’s PowerPC405 Speed 350 MIPS CPU Data/Instruction Cache 16KB/16KB Input Connector IEC169-24 female(F-type) Loop through Connector IEC169-24 female(F-type) Frequency Ran...

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