Technomate TM-7100 HDDesigned in Britain, the Technomate TM-7100 HD is a satellite PVR with a big difference. Able to receive and record both card slots and space for two CAMs, this box could receive just about any digital satellite channel you can throw at it. All great, but what’s the difference? The third tuner is the key: on top of all this it enables the 7100 to receive DVB-T digital terrestrial broadcasts!TECHNOMATE TM-7100 HDThe ultimate machine for multi channel recordings in digital tv
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18TELE-satellite — Global Digital TV Magazine — 04-05/2010 — www.TELE-satellite.comto radio. Scanning speed is good – a full scan of Astra 2 takes just under 6.5 minutes network scan can be used to get all the transponder data and pick up additional ones not already present in the receiver’s memory but this nearly trebles the time taken. There’s a quicker option for ?everything … blind scan! Once just for enthusiasts, the blind scan can now work fast enough to be a viable alternative to scanning the pre-programmed list of transponders. Over the same satellite, a difference over a well-pop-ulated satellite, and quicker than the network scan along with the reassurance that everything you can receive is really there. Again, we can restrict the search to only free channels, and addition-ally set a frequency band to be scanned for those satel-lites that don’t use the whole spectrum. Auto navigation is even available here too making the blind scan a true alternative to the traditional method. With blind scan-ning becoming fast enough to rival pre-programmed transponders, how long will it be until this becomes the standard way to scan a sat-ellite?While we’re still setting up, it’s a good time to look at the third tuner in the box. I had been concerned satellite and terrestrial in the same machine might be reminiscent of the early days of digital satellite, when it sometimes felt like we had two almost unconnected analogue and digital receiv-ers in the same box. But here the implementation is reassuringly simple. There’s a separate terrestrial scan in the installation menu which gives us the usual choices – scan all UHF channels or a single one.At my location we have a whole two transponders to receive so it’s quicker to scan them individually. Or if you are as lazy as me, input scan, just like on satellite, to pick up the other. Later in the year when we are given a third transponder to play with, it would save me even more button pressing! Of course, if you don’t have your local channel numbers to hand, a scan over the whole UHF spectrum takes just 2.5 minutes.Once scanned into the receiver, the terrestrial channels appear in the chan-nel list alongside their satel-lite counterparts. The list can ?ellite using the SAT key, and here the terrestrial chan-nels appear as if they were on a satellite of their own – simple. The list can also be ?around the list isn’t quite the most user-friendly experi-ence it could be, but it gets easier with experience.Everyday useDealing with hundreds of channels off multiple satel-lites makes a favourites list ?has sixteen sets of favour-ites to use. The groups come tion, sports, movies etc., but these can be renamed as required. Pressing the FAV button while watch-ing TV brings up a channel ting remains and is used by both the channel list and the Blind scan in progress Terrestrial scan menu Terrestrial scan in progress Tuner connection options menu Channel list

20TELE-satellite — Global Digital TV Magazine — 04-05/2010 — www.TELE-satellite.comProgramme info Recorded programmes list EPG EPG until changed again later – just how it should be.The EPG is clear and easy to use. I found using the favourites system the best way to navigate the channels but we can also view chan-nels by individual satellite as with the channel list – includ-ing just the terrestrial chan-nels. The EPG for satellite channels is as always limited to the now and next shows, but for terrestrial a full seven days can be seen. From here future shows can be added into the timer for viewing or recording. After selec-tion here they are available in the 32-event timer screen, accessible from the EPG.With three tuners to record from, some serious record-ing weaponry is needed. Our review machine was sup-plied with an internal 500GB hard drive. The manual gives clear instructions and pic-tures showing how to install or upgrade the internal drive, which can go up to an enor-mous 1 terabyte in size . Now surely even I couldn’t run out of space with that much at my disposal, although I do like a challenge. If I ever did achieve that, there’s no need to panic: the receiver can be set to record to a USB drive and recordings can be archived there also.All three tuners can be recorded at the same time, and there’s usually no slow-down in the receiver’s opera-tion while this is happening. I’ve successfully recorded from all three at once, including an HD channel, and watched an HD recording at the same time. There’s sometimes a little bit of a jump when a record-ing starts, but apart from that it’s very smooth. When recording has used up all the available tuner capacity, an alternative channel can be still viewed from a trans-ponder already in use. Help-fully, the channel list and EPG show channels unavail-able for this reason in grey – selecting one gives the

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DATATECHNICALDistributorTechnomate Ltd, Unit 11 Nobel Road, Edmonton, London, N18 3BH, UKTel.+44 20 8884 0545 / + 44 20 8884 0701Fax+44 20 8884 0275Homepagewww.technomate.comemailinfo@technomate.comModelTM-7100 HD Triple Tuner PVRSatellites64SCPC compatibleYesUSALSYesDiSEqC1.0/1.1/1.2/1.3Scart connectors2Symbol ratesDVB-S: 2000-45000DVB-S210000-30000 (QPSK & 8PSK)Terrestrial range170-230 & 470-862MhzCarrier modes2K & 8K hierarchical/non-hierarchicalMPEG2 modesMPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264Audio outputs2 (left & right)Video outputsComposite, Component, HDMI, RF modulatorResolutions1080i, 720p, 576i, 570pUHF outputYes0/12 volt outputNoDigital audio output S/PDIFEPGYesC/Ku-band compatible YesPower supply100-250V AC, 50/60HzActive PowerApparent PowerModeApparentActiveFactorNormal StandBy36 W18 W0.5Power Save StandBy 4 W 1 W0.25Reception55 W28 W0.51PVR59 W32 W0.54Andy MiddletonTELE-satelliteTest CenterUKDIAGRAMENERGY23www.TELE-satellite.com — 04-05/2010 — TELE-satellite — Global Digital TV Magazine+Two satellite tuners, one digital terrestrial tuner, great connectivity, large hard drive and USB sup-port, power saving standby mode-Occasional instances of confusion in the recording system, some menus harder than necessary to navigate, basic manualExpert Opinionhelp, and the manual is just a little too basic after the ini-tial set up pages. But a little experience helps a lot – a day or two of experimenting teaches you all you need to know. The sensitive tuner and speedy blind scan might also give it a good home in the enthusiast’s set-up – the auto navigation makes it great for a little unattended feed-hunting. Video and audio quality are as good as we’ve come to expect from an HD receiver with a dig-ital sound output. The big-gest problem now is harder to get around. Technomate don’t yet make an accom-panying machine to expand the number of hours in a day: all this TV, all this hard a device appears I think I’ll need to miss a lot.