Skybox S12 First test

TurboPirate said:
Almost a month and loving my Skybox, what I don't really like is the remote control signal, you have to aim directly to STB for comands to take effect, reminds me the CaptiveWorks remote control, other than that, I love this mini receiver.
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I feel exactly the same way. I love this little box, except for the remote control signal. I'm even using it more than my $249 Optibox Anaconda.

I now might purchase the Skybox M3.
 
Lightning fast blind scan is why I purchased the s12 f3 version for my other feed. Still waiting for it to arrive, it's been 13 days now.
 
If I understood correctly the f3 version has a usable rs232 port and composite and component cables can also be used. The other version is equipped with Euro type scart.
 
SatelliteGuy said:
I feel exactly the same way. I love this little box, except for the remote control signal. I'm even using it more than my $249 Optibox Anaconda.

I now might purchase the Skybox M3.
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If you are using the S12 more than the Anaconda then you probably should have never bought the Anaconda.
The S12 does not have many features so it makes no sense to buy an Anaconda and pay for internet, network, media and other premium features if you are not going to use them. EB
 
el bandido said:
If you are using the S12 more than the Anaconda then you probably should have never bought the Anaconda.
The S12 does not have many features so it makes no sense to buy an Anaconda and pay for internet, network, media and other premium features if you are not going to use them. EB
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I haven't used the Skybox S12 in over a week. I'm now using the Openbox S9 which I still feel is one of the best receivers out there.

The Optibox Ananconda needs to fix "basic" functions such as blind scan before I begin using it again. I also didn't purchase the Optibox Anaconda for the internet, network and media features. I purchased it for it's onscreen graphics, memory and video quality which are excellent.
 
Hello guys, I forgot to mention in this test a second SAT I have in the diseq switch port #2, Hispasat, I remember now because a friend of mine is telling me this skybox is not HD, it only has HD output, but my evidense is that with pansat SD 3500 I scan a few channels on Hispasat and with Skybox I scannes channels listed in lyngsat as HD. I think he is trying his receiver with sats that have turbo hd and that is why he thinks the receiver is not HD. Anyway I am enjoying of a couple channels that with SD receivers not even the TP showed quality. Long live the SKYBOX.
 
TurboPirate, do you experience any problems when using a 22KHz switch in addition to a Diseqc switch?

I just hooked my Skybox S12 back up today and the more I use it the more I love it. I'm thinking about purchasing the Skybox M3 receiver as well.
 
I see they are offering a new Openbox S16 with a different Ali chip M3606C instead of 3602 plus it has 3 USB ports (2 female, 1 male) connectors, HDMI/ Composite/Component and analog as well for less than $75 w/free shipping?? Have anyone have heard from this new chip??
 
Here is some information on that chip.


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M3606C Full HD 1080P H.264 solution
M3606C is highly integrated IC for STB with networking. M3606C has dual high performance 32 bit RISC CPU, support dual USB 2.0 Host interface, High definition MPEG2 and H.264 video decoder, graphics engine, Ethernet , TV encoder and HDMI transmitter.
Feature:

● Support 16 bit DDRII 800 SDRAM
● Support serial flash with different size
● CI/CI+ interfaces supported
● Support Smart card interfaces
● MPEG-2 MP@HL video decoder
● AVC/H.264 HP@L4.1 video decoder
● MPEG4 ASP supported
● JPEG decoding accelerator
● Support 4 Video VDAC, can output YPbPr and CVBS simultaneously
● Build-in DVI and HDMI with HDCP
● Support full HD output
● MPEG-1 layers I, II and PCM down-mixing
● IEC958 S/PDIF digital output
● Digital mute control and volume adjustment
● Support Dolby down-mixed 2 channel and Dolby Prologic2
● Support 2 channel HE-AAC V1
● Build-in 2 channel Audio DAC
● Embedded Dual High performance 32bit CPU
● Debug unit with EJTAG interface
● Dual USB 2.0 host interface
● 10/100 Mbps Ethernet MAC with RMII
● 2 sets of UART Interfaces
● SDIO Interface
● OTP supported
● LQFP 256 Package

Block Diagram:

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Applications:

● DVB-S2/C/T full feature CI/CI+ box solution

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SatelliteGuy said:
TurboPirate, do you experience any problems when using a 22KHz switch in addition to a Diseqc switch?

I just hooked my Skybox S12 back up today and the more I use it the more I love it. I'm thinking about purchasing the Skybox M3 receiver as well.
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Nope, no problem at all, when I am installing a dish to Hispasat I use universal LNB it has always work better than standard LNB, so in Skybox S12 dish settings I have Port#1 40.5 and in Port#2 Hispasat Universal LNB in LNB FREQ. and the 22Khz goes to AUTO, can't edit it, so far it's scans all channels, did a test hooking Hispasat directly to receiver no switch involved and it pulled the same amount of channels. So nope no problems at all with 22Khz.
 
Last night was the first time I tested the PVR function, excellent feature, a little tricky to play what was recorded but it did, I never used a pvr function in any of my receivers, like the image and sound of the movie I left it recording, I remember when I first pressed REC it asked me in TS or PS format I used TS, what is the difference between PS and TS?
 
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Look in the link for some answers and thoughts on the TS & PS modes. EB

Code: 
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1784541
 
ts file also contains tp info
Channel 2
On Table_ID: 0x42 (current mux)
Service Name: TUFF TV
Provider Name: Luken Communications LLC
Transport Stream ID: 0 (0x0000)
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this was from a ts recorded on rtv and had nothing to do with tuff
used tsreader to look at the goodies.
 
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