User manual METRONIC ZAPBOX TWIN

[. . . ] 2-in-1 Digital Receiver Ref : 441525 3500 channels Parental lock 2 scarts Wide screen ready DiSEqC 1. 0 Sound volume equalizer SATELLITE + FREEVIEW MET531 CAUTION Your receiver has ventilation slots. These slots must not be obstructed, even partially, in order to ensure proper ventilation. The device may not be exposed to dripping or splashing and no object filled with liquid, such as vases, must be put on the device. Installation in premises which are confined or subject to temperature or dampness changes (sheds, attics, cellars, tiny rooms, dry risers etc. ) may cause an overheating of the device or a premature ageing resulting in failures that are not covered by the guarantee. [. . . ] · Press OK and then EXIT to quit the menus. C - Automatic channel shearch · Go in MENU / Installation / Program Satellite. · On the Current Antenna line, select with 34 arrows the number of the first satellite declared (generally, 1). The Search channels window appears, and the newly found channels are listed and sotred. · Press OK and then EXIT to quit the menus. @Note: the automatic search scans the channels using the TP list associated with each satellite. If the automatic search doesn't find a channel, though you are sure it exists, it is probably because you need first to update the TP list. 21 D - Add / Delete / Modify a transponder To delete a transponder note : deleting out-of-date transponders speeds up the automatic search · Press the blue key, a small circle is displayed after each TP. · With the arrow keys, put the selection bar on the TP you want to delete and press OK. The window on the righthand side of the screen lists the channels carried by the selected TP. You can select as many TP's as you want, all of them will be simultaneously deleted. · Once your selection is over, press EXIT, a confirmation window is shown. To add a transponder · Put first the selection bar on a TP belonging to the same satellite as the one for which you want to add a TP. If you still can't find any, it means that the satellite is not pre-programmed ; you will have to add it as explained in the paragraph called Adding a satellite. · Enter the 5 figures of the frenquency and press 6 · Select the polarity with 34 arrows and press 6 · Enter the 5 figures of the Symbol Rate and press 6 · Press OK on the Store line to save this new TP. To modify a transponder · · · · · · Put first the selection bar on the TP you want to modify. Enter the 5 figures of the frenquency and press 6 Select the polarity with 34 arrows and press 6 Enter the 5 figures of the Symbol Rate and press 6 Press OK on the Store line to save this new TP. E - Shearch of a particular channel (PID entry) In some (rare) cases, a manual or automatic search may not find a channel that does exists however. You must then add this channel by entering the PID's that you will find in specialized magazines or websites : 22 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Go in MENU / Edit / Edit CH. On the TP line, select with 34 arrows the TP that carries the channel to add. If the TP is not listed, you must add it in the Edit TP menu as explained above in this manual. On the Channel line, press OK to display the window allowing to edit the channel name. To write a letter at the cursor location, press the 0-9 keys as you would do with a cellular mobile phone (for example, press twice the key 3 to write a E). Press the 4 arrow to edit the next letter, press one of the color keys to insert or delete a letter. Press OK and check that the signal is correct (Signal Quality >50%). Should the opposite occur, you will have to check again the technical parameters, or check the DiSEqC settings in the LNB setup menu. [. . . ] Digital television can carry more channels in the same amount of bandwidth than analogue television ever could. Cable and satellite TV has already been using digital channels for a few years. They will eventually replace analogue channels in terrestrial transmission. Please note that some channels (for ex. , BBC1) can be broadcasted in both analogue and digital format. [. . . ]