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HDTV Satellite Receiver with PVR

Sharp, Sharper, NanoxxNanoxx 9800HD

Sharp, Sharper, Nanoxx! This advertising slogan pops up on German manufacturer

Nanoxxs website and with good reason as our tests will show. But one thing at a time.

When Nanoxx asked us a few weeks ago to take a closer look at their new 9800HD,

naturally we said yes. Weve already tested a variety of Nanoxx receivers and were

impressed each time.

We were quite excited when

the delivery truck dropped

off the package with the

receiver at our test center.

The 9800HD managed to

earn its first plus points while

we were unpacking it; as has

been typical with Nanoxx,

they stuck with an elegant

and above all slim design.

At just 30x6.3x22cm in size,

it easily fits on any TV stand

or in any living room cabi-

net. Its discreet silver/black

color combination is incon-

spicuously elegant and it has

an easy to read blue colored

alphanumeric display.

The front panel comes with

six buttons used to operate

the receiver in lieu of the

remote control plus a sev-

enth Standby button that is

illuminated in blue while the

receiver is in use. Two CI

slots capable of working with

all the popular modules, such

as Irdeto, Nagravision, Cryp-

toworks or Viaccess along

with a card reader for Conax,

X-Crypt, DG-Crypt, Firecrypt

and Crypton can all be found

behind a flap on the right side

of the front panel.

When you take a look at the

rear panel and all of the con-

nectors on the new Nanoxx

receiver, you would have

to ask yourself, did they

forget anything? If you look

closely, youll see that every

possible interface is available

and usable.

Of course the most impor-

tant of these would be the two

satellite IF inputs for DVB-S

and DVB-S2 that also sport

looped-through outputs. The

9800HD can be connected

to a TV or projection system

using the HDMI interface, the

three RCA jacks for YUV, an

S-Video jack, a CVBS jack as

well as two Scart connectors.

NANOXX 9800HDAn outstandingly equipped universalHD receiver with an unprecedented

number of features

Exceptional audio is supplied

by optical and coaxial S/PDIF

outputs.

Communicating with other

devices can be handled via

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the two USB jacks (Type A

and Type B for linking to anexternal hard drive or a PC),

an e-SATA interface as well

as an Ethernet interface.

Theres even a good old

RS-232 interface available

that can be used to upload/

download channel lists. Its

all topped off with a main

power switch, something

that you unfortunately dont

always find on other receiver

brands.

The included remote con-

trol is just as elegant and

sits nicely in your hands. The

buttons are ideally labeled

and after only a short time

getting to know the remote

youd be able to operate

every function blindfolded.

All of the buttons are easy to

reach and easy to depress.

The detailed, fully-illus-

trated user manual printedin English and German will

answer any questions you

might have regarding the

operation of this new Nanoxx

receiver. The manufacturer

gets a nice pat on the back

for this effort.

Everyday UseAfter the receiver has

been connected to the satel-

lite antenna system and the

TV and it has been turned onfor the first time, the Instal-

lation Assistant immediately

appears.

It is a very helpful tool

when setting up the receiver

for the first time. For theOSD (on-screen display)

language, 25 choices are

available including English,

German, Turkish, Russian,

French, Arabic, Italian, Por-

tuguese, Spanish, Danish,

Dutch, Polish, Czech, Swed-

ish, Norwegian, Finnish,

Greek, Serbian, Hungarian,

Croatian, Albanian and Farsi.

All in all, a very international

receiver.

The next step involves set-

ting up the local time zone

and whether daylight savings

time should be turned on or

off. Once this is taken care of,

the receiver is then matched

up with the existing antenna

system. 153 European, Asian

and American C and Ku-band

satellites have been prepro-

grammed into the Nanoxx

all with relatively up-to-date

transponder data.

The Nanoxx concept sees

to it that the satellites are

set up and activated during

the initial settings phase so

that later on during a scan

only those satellites that can

actually be received will be

available. The user simply

checks off all of the satellites

that his system is set up for.

Each satellite has its own

configuration menu in whichnumerous parameters can be

set up. In addition to a vari-

ety of useable local oscilla-

tor frequency (LOF) values,

there are also LNB settings

EPG multiple channel view

Blind Scan channel search with variable step frequencies

EPG single channel view

Nanoxx 9800HDs main menu

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available based on the SCR

standard.

Manual LOF entry lets you

set up other LNBs such as

those for the S-band. Natu-

rally the Nanoxx 9800HD alsosupports all of the DiSEqC

protocols: 1.0 for multifeed

antennas up to four satel-

lites, 1.1 for the expanded

version for use with up to 16

LNBs, as well as 1.2 and 1.3

(USALS) for motor control

and naturally also the SCR

standard (Unicable).

Before the installation

assistant permits a channel

scan to be started, the final

set up step involves deciding

how incoming signals should

be routed to the two tuners.

This could be separate cables

with identical switches, sep-

arate cables with different

types of switches or a loop

through connection between

Tuner 1 and Tuner 2.

Dont worry, at first it

seems complicated but the

proper choice almost hap-

pens by itself; Nanoxx blendsin connection diagrams that

makes it much easier for

the user to make the right

choice. For those who dont

have much patience, Nanoxx

offers instead of a channel

scan a preloaded channel

list for Germany, Austria and

Switzerland.

It not only carries the

advantage that all unwanted

channels have already been

done away with and that all

of the remaining channels

have been sorted, it also

saves viewers in these coun-

tries a lot of time since in the

end all they want to do is get

to watching TV as quickly as

possible.

The receiver stores the

selected options thus com-

pleting the initial installa-

tion. Before the owner of his

newly purchased receiveractually gets down to using

it, there are a few recom-

mended additional settings

that can be handled via the

main menu.

By pushing the menu

button on the remote con-

trol, the Main Menu appears

with the current TV image

minimized to a small window

in the upper right corner of

the screen.

It was designed especially

for high resolution TVs and is

thus sharp and easy to read.

It is divided into seven sub-

menus (Installation, System

Settings, Channel Settings,

Child Protection, Games,

Multimedia and Conditional

Access.

The installation menu will

only be needed again when

looking for new channels or

when new satellites need to

be added; everything else

was already taken care of in

the initial installation.

Here you will also find a

variety of other options that,

for example, would allow

you to reset the receiver to

factory settings plus among

other things load one of the

preprogrammed channel

lists.

In addition to a variety of

language choices (subtitle,

teletext, audio language,

etc.), it is also possible to

change the video output

signal. The 9800HD supports

PAL and NTSC in 1080i, 720p

and 576p resolutions. Theres

also an automatic mode that

matches the resolution to

each transmission resulting

in optimal picture quality.

Naturally, the receiver

can also automatically rec-

ognize and take 4:3 signals

and either display them with

black bars on either side

of the image on modern

16:9 TVs or zoom in on the

image.

Also worth mentioning is

the Video switching option.

This option essentially keeps

the current channel imageon the screen until the new

channel is ready to be dis-

played. This has the advan-

tage of making it appear that

the already short channel

Overview of recordings as well as MP3 and JPEG

Network Settings

Playback of a recording

Channel Info Bar

Expanded EPG information

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switching time of about one

second is even shorter. Its

nothing more than an opti-

cal magic trick, but it looks

really good!

Even the on-screen displaycan be adjusted a variety

of ways; for example, level

of transparency and display

time. Another useful fea-

ture is the Lip-sync option.

In cases where the video

and audio of a signal are not

quite 100% synchronized,

this feature lets you match

them together.

As practical as the pre-

pared channel list is, we here

at TELE-satellite are espe-

cially interested in the Chan-

nel Scan menu that was

the next step for us.

The Nanoxx 9800HD comes

with four different modes.

The first is the automatic

scan. In this mode the user

only needs to select a desired

satellite and choose between

ALL, NIT, Fast, Free, TV or

Radio. These choices can

be set up individually for asmany satellites as needed.

Owners of DiSEqC motor-

ized systems can thus select

all receivable satellites for

an automatic scan and sit

and enjoy a DVD while the

receiver takes care of the

work.

Through all of the different

search modes its also pos-

sible to scan a satellite like

ASTRA 28.2 east with all of

its encrypted channels only

for those channels freely

receivable, while scanning

ASTRA 19.2 east for all

channels and HOTBIRD 13

east only for radio channels.

It doesnt get any more user-

friendly than that!

Manual scan mode lets you

search on one transponder.

The well thought out and

logical operational concept

of the Nanoxx receiver can

only be appreciated when

you see it for yourself.

For all you DXers out there

we want to point out that of

course a manual scan with

PID entry is also possible.

And while were on the

DXer subject, they would be

very happy with the third

scanning mode, namely Blind

Scan.

Weve all seen this prob-

lem before: new channels

are always being added, old

ones removed and symbol-

rates are constantly chang-

ing. If you want to keep your

channel list as current as

possible, you either have to

refer to the up-to-date chan-

nel lists from www.SatcoDX.

com or you simply use the

Blind Scan feature of the

9800HD.

This feature lets you scan auser-definedfrequencyrange

for all active transponders,

identifies the symbolrate and

FEC and reads all the avail-

able TV and radio channels

into the receiver. Since this

type of scan can take much

longer than a simple scan of

a preprogrammed transpon-

der list, the Blind Scan on the

one hand can be limited to a

single polarization while on

the other the scanning steps

can be adjusted between

1 and 4 MHz in an effort to

speed up the overall scan.

If you want to use Blind

Scan to search a DTH posi-

tion such as HOTBIRD at 13

east, 4 MHz scanning steps

would be sufficient. If you are

searching for SCPC signals,

then 1 or 2 MHz scanning

steps are recommended.

In general, the larger the

scanning steps, the faster

the overall scan.

An automatic scan of HOT-

BIRD at 13 east needed 7

minutes and 33 seconds to

be completed and managed

to find 1232 TV and 421

radio channels. A Blind Scan

required 17 minutes and 52

seconds during which 1344

TV and 455 radio channels

were found.

We also wanted to test the

capabilities of the Nanoxx9800HD tuner and were

pleasantly surprised with

the results: SCPC reception

was possible starting at 2.0

Ms/sec and very weak sig-

nals such as those on NILE-

SAT at 7 west and ASTRA 2D

at 28.2 east were also easily

handled by the receiver; it

was able to present an inter-

ference-free picture with C/

N values starting at 4.5 dB.

Once all the basic settingshave been taken care of, the

10,000 possible channels

that can be stored need to

be freed up of any unneces-

sary or unwanted entries.

This is handled by the

Channel Settings menu.

From here channels can be

deleted, renamed, moved

or transferred to one of the

Favorites lists.

It is also possible to delete

a group of channels with

the push of one button plus

you can transfer channel

data, system settings and

timer entries to an external

medium so that this data can

be worked on using an Editor

program on a PC.

Afterwards, this modified

data can be uploaded back

to the receiver via its USB

interface.

After the channel list has

been edited to your liking, apush of the Exit button takes

you out of the main menu

and the 9800HD switches to

the first receivable channel.

After each channel

change an informative Info

bar appears that provides

information on the current

channel including language

selection, teletext, encryp-

tion, subtitles, etc. as well

as programming information

on the current and upcom-ing programs. Even signal

strength and signal quality is

displayed in the form of bar

graphs.

A push of the Info button

displays an expanded EPG

view of the current program

as long as this data is made

available by the provider.

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A second push of the Info

button displays detailed

reception information on the

current channel.

As is typical with almost

every receiver on the

market, and the Nanoxx box

is no different, the chan-

nel list appears with a push

of the OK button. It is veryclearly laid out with HD and

encrypted channels easily

recognizable thanks to cor-

responding symbols.

There are also a number of

sorting methods that in the

end will make it very easy

to find the channel that you

want. You can sort alphabet-

ically, by f requency, provider

and HD or SD.

As we already mentioned,

the channel switching times

of the 9800HD are quite fast

within the same transponder

and also between HD and

SD signals. During our tests

we were impressed with the

integrated upscaler. Its job

is to convert SD signals in

such a way that they can be

shown on larger TVs with a

sharp and high contrast pic-

ture in higher resolution.

If automatic resolution has

not been activated, a dedi-

cated button on the remote

control switches between

the various resolutions so

that the best picture quality

can be achieved.

The more channels that

can be received, the more

important it is to have a

decent electronic program-

ming guide (EPG) since in

the end the user wants to

maintain an overview and

always be kept up to date oncurrent programs.

To that end, the Nanoxx

comes with two different EPG

modes: a single channel view

and a multi-channel view in

table format. Which of these

is more useful will depend

on the user; both functioned

perfectly in our tests. The

data was correctly sorted and

above all quickly displayed.

Timer entries can also be

handled directly from the

EPG as can recording set-

tings. For example, you can

dictate whether the record-

ing should end up on an

external USB or e-SATA hard

drive and also in what sub-

folder it should be stored.

Up to 40 timer events can

be set up and these can be

one-time, daily or weeklyrecordings.

PVRNanoxx with its 9800HD

has remained with their

Storing channel list, timers and settings

Setting up a new timer event

Up to 40 timer events can be set up

Record up to two channels at the same time

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external hard drive concept

and for good reason.

Todays external hard

drives are not nearly as

expensive as they used to

be, come with plenty ofspace and can be easily car-

ried around from one place

to another.

For our test we used a

Freecom 2.5 hard drive. It

comes with the advantage

that it doesnt need an exter-

nal power source; it receives

its power through the USB

interface.

The Nanoxx 9800HD can

record up to two programs

at the same time (SD and/or

HD) on the hard drive while

a third program is either

watched live or played back

from the same hard drive.

Even hardcore couch pota-

toes will be satisfied with all

the different possibilities.

Thanks to the inte-

grated time shift function,

a telephone call from your

mother-in-law can no longerinterfere with your evening

TV watching mood: the pro-

gram is simply paused and

then restarted at the point

where it was stopped at the

end of the phone conversa-

tion without missing a thing.

Numerous PVR func-

tions performed correctly

during our tests no matter

how hard we tried to derail

the receiver with multiple

recordings, timers and time

shifting. The receiver did

whatever we asked it to andreliably recorded all of our

selected programs.

We all know that provid-

ers dont always follow their

own broadcasting schedule

so its nice to know that the

9800HD can automatically

extend the recording time of

a program by a user-defined

amount of time.

Theres also a special ver-

sion of Haenleins video

editing software from www.

haenlein-software.com. This

lets you edit both SD and HD

recordings on your PC.

And lets not forget the

media function. This is the

control center for the play-

back of all the multimedia

content on the hard drive;

it too functioned perfectly

during our tests. Similar to a

data manager, it presents aclear overview of all the data.

To that end, the Nanoxx

supports not only its own

recordings, but AVI (XVID),

JPEG photos and MP3 music.

During playback there are a

number of playback speeds

available.

Video Settings

SCPC reception via TURKSAT at 42 east

PVR Settings

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The receiver can also

remember where a playback

was stopped so that it can

continue from the point it

was stopped the next time

playback is started. To uti-

lize the PVR functions a ll youneed is any external USB or

e-SATA hard drive format ted

in Microsoft FAT32.

Most hard drives are

shipped from the factory in

FAT32, otherwise the manu-

facturer offers a free for-

matting tool through their

web site.

Network

Slowly but surely, moreand more manufacturers

are including Ethernet con-

nections on their receivers,

Nanoxx is no exception.

Thanks to the ability to

link to a local network or the

Internet, the possibilities are

endless; receivers without

a LAN connection can only

dream of what it would be

like.

The connection is set up

very quickly; the 9800HD

utilizes DHCP and can auto-

matically detect all the nec-

essary parameters directly

from the router or DSL

modem.

For more experienced

users a manual configura-

tion is also available. Once

the receiver is connected

to the home network, it

becomes possible to access

the hard drive connected to

the 9800HD from the PC via

FTP. This makes it easy tofurther process recordings

on your PC.

The receiver itself prof-

its from the Internet con-

nection: a connection with

the Nanoxx FTP server can

be made directly from the

receiver. There you will find

current software as well as

channel lists for Germany,

Austria and Switzerland.

And best of all: Nanoxx can

expand this by offering more

channel lists and other useful

features that the user can

upload to the receiver with

the simple push of a button.

Software updates have

never been this simple!

The desired image data is

marked and downloaded

from the Internet directly to

the receivers menu with the

push of the OK button.

The days of using USB

sticks or null modem cables

to link to a PC are over, even

though the 9800HD still

offers these methods.

StreamingAn especially interesting

feature and typical Nanoxx is

Manual Scan

Every possible LNB setting is available

Channel list editing

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Thomas HaringTELE-satellite

Test CenterAustria

DATATECHNICAL

Manufacturer Nanoxx Germany

Email [email protected]

Internet www.nanoxx.info

Model 9800HD

Function Digital HDTV DVB-S2 receiver with

various Multimedia Features

Channel Memory 10.000

Symbolrate 2-45 Ms/sec.

SCPC Compatible yes (> 2000 Ms/s)

DiSEqC 1.0 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3

USALS yes

Unicable yes

HDMI Output yes

Scart Connector 2

Audio/Video Outputs 6x RCA

Component Video Output yes

S-Video Output yes

UHF Modulator no

0/12 Volt Connector no

Digital Audio Output yes

EPG yes

C/Ku-Band compatible yes

PVR-Function yes

USB 2.0 Connector yes

Ethernet yes

E-SATA yes

Dimensions 300x63x220mm

Weight 2.2kg

DIAGRAM

ENERGY

Active Power

Apparent Power Mode Apparent Active Factor

StandBy 10 W 4 W 0.40

Reception 44 W 25 W 0.56

PVR 45 W 26 W 0.57

+The Nanoxx 9800HD has reached new heights

with its variety of functions, its simple operational

concept and its many cute features. It is very easy

to use and functioned perfectly in our tests. Its

easy to see that Nanoxx took every detail into

account during the design phase. Blind Scan, Net-

work Streaming and other features such as Lip-Sync and a gentle transition when switching from

one channel to another when channel surfing make the 9800HD

an outstandingly equipped universal HD receiver.

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First 15 minutes: the first minute shows the start up of the receiver fol-lowed by 14 minutes of normal operation with channel switching, record-ing, playback, etc. The second 15 minutes: standby

the ability to stream record-

ings between two different

devices on the same network.

Who hasnt experienced this

before: your laying comfort-

ably in bed and want to finish

watching the documentary

you had recorded a few days

ago in your living room.

With most receivers that

meant you had to get up and

go back to the living room to

finish watching it. Not true

with the Nanoxx!

It can create a link with the

receiver in the living room,

access then data directly

from there and then play-

back the recording on thereceiver in the bedroom. An

absolutely excellent feature!

AdditionalFunctionsTo top it all off, the Nanoxx

9800HD comes with a variety

of other practical features

that we briefly want to touch

on here: theres a PIP func-

tion (picture-in-picture) that

lets you watch another chan-

nel during lengthy commer-

cial breaks and also makes it

easy to switch between these

channels.

The Mosaic function dis-

plays the current program

from 4 or 6 channels next

to each other in a minimizedformat that gives you an

overview of whats playing,

for example, on your favorite

channels.

And to guarantee that youll

never be bored, the manufac-

turer also included two video

games that can help pass the

time during commercials.

The Zoom function magni-

fies a highlighted portion of

the video image and teletext

pages can also be displayed.

PC SoftwareThe user can download a

variety of useful programs

from the manufacturers

website www.nanoxx.info

including a channel list editor

and a media player that can

present recordings directly

from the receivers hard

drive on a PC.

Expert Opinion

New firmware and settings downloaded via the Internet

Sorting the channel list by provider

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