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Old 15-11-2010, 12:47   #244
El En Bee
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Re: B&Q Satellite - Ross freesat box and dish

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Originally Posted by MTJR View Post
I doubt if there'd be enough space for a drive. In any case, fitting an internal drive would cause you to break the warranty seal.

The box it came in made sure you were in no doubt that the unit has NO 7-day EPG. Just now and next. The more I think about the techie's "Sky Plus" comment the more I'm confused by it.

Visually the box is black with a red LED display for the channel number, a red light to indicate power is getting to the unit and a yellow light above that to indicate it's either operating (light on) or not. There's a peculiar round button arrangement to the right of that which I've not had to use yet as the remote seems to do everything I need.

In MPEG2 Decoding the formats the 8130 is capable of are 480i/480p/576i/576p/720p and 1080i whilst audio decoding is MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (Layer I/II), AC-3 & E-AC-3 (both marked as optional) and HE-AAC (Levels 2&4). Dolby isn't mentioned at all by name.

Sampling frequency is listed as 32K/44.1K/48K.

That about covers it.

John
Thanks again for the info John.

I think apart from the additional USB port, a bit of restyling and improved audio decoding (I don't think the 6110 has the E-AC-3 option - will check later), there's no real difference between the two models.

As an aside, I've just installed the receiver at home using the included dish. After a bit of fiddling about I've managed to get a max of 63% quality (level is 99%). Back at the caravan - using a ten year old Sky dish - I got 90-95% quality.

Although the channels are displaying perfectly at the moment - would a different LNB (Sky?) improve the % quality and hence reduce the likelihood of break up during bad weather?
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