Viewsat Xtreme Review

[Rumas]

The Xtreme has all of the same features and technical specs as the Platinum model plus TRUE HARDWARE BLINDSCAN and COMPONENT VIDEO OUTPUTS!

Features:

Fully MPEG-2 & DVB Compliant
Input Frequency 950-2150MHz
Supports EPG, PIG
Supports SCPC & MCPC from C / Ku-band
1 LNB Input Tuner with Loop Through IF Signal
Tuner Symbol Rate : 1-45MS/s
Fast Booting & Auto Scan
Quick Channel Changing
Max. 4000 Channels(TV & Radio) Programmable
User Friendly 256 Colors OSD & Easy GUI
A lot of OSD Language supported
Radio Channel Background Display
Favorite Channel List Programmable
Master PIN Code Function & Parental Lock Function
100 Steps Volume Control
Automatic Detection of Forward Error Correction
Window based S/W Download Program Supported
by RS232 Serial Port
Set to Set Download (Main Program, Channel Data)
4:3, 16:9 Letter Box & Teletext using OSD
7 Segment-4 Digit Display
5 Keys on the Front Panel (Power On/Off, Channel
Up/Down, Volume Up/Down)
Various LNB Polarity Control
22KHz Switching Control
6 RCA Output for Video, Audio L/R
Optical Output for Digital Audio
S-VIDEO Output
RF-Modulator Output
Power Switch
Optical

Technical Specifications:

Power Supply

- Type : SMPS

- Input Voltage : AC 95V~240v 50Hz/60Hz

- Fuse Rating : 250V/T2A


Tuner

- Input Frequency : 950~2150MHz

- Input Signal Level : -65~25dBm

- Input Impedance : 75W Unbalanced

- Connector Type : ‘F’ Type Female

- LNB Power Supply : 13V/18V, Max 500mA with Short Circuit Protection

- 22Khz Tone : Frequency 22±4KHz, Amplitude 0.6±0.2Vpp

- DiSEqC : 1.0 & 1.2 Version Compatible

- Channel Selection : PLL Frequency Synthesizer


Demodulator

- Type : QPSK Demodulation(DVB-S)

- Symbol Rate : 1~45 MS/s

- Inner FEC : Viterbi Convolutional Coding Rate 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8

- Outer FEC : Reed Solomon Coding(204, 188) T=8


Video Decoder

- System Decoding : MPEG-2 ISO/IEC 13818-2

- Profile and Level : MPEG-2 MP@ML

- Data Rate : 1~15MB/s

- Video Formats : 4:3(Normal) & 16:9(Widescreen)