Panodic

TEST REPORT HDTV Miniature Satellite Receiver

Panodic
• Small receiver with small remote control
• Optimized menu guidance with very few
settings
• Works with BlindScan

HDS275
• Easy channel list administration
• Ability to turn on the receiver to a specific
channel

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TEST REPORT HDTV Miniature Satellite Receiver

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A Small
but Nice
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1-12/2012
Panodic HDS275
Best designed mini-receiver
for the best HD
reception

HDTV Receiver
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With its slim dimensions that can be used to turn the the receiver with your anten- than the regular scan using 2 5
of only 27 x 16 x 4.7 cm, the receiver into a PVR if it’s con- na. The HDS275 supports the preprogrammed transpond-
Panodic HDS275 will easily nected to an external USB DiSEqC 1.0 and 1.1 protocols ers.
fit into any TV environment; storage device. and can therefore be used on The main menu of the
thanks to its plain black cabi- The remote control in- antennas with up to 16 LNBs. HDS275 is divided into six
net it blends in nicely with cluded by the manufacturer, Thanks to the individually categories (Installation,
the background. just like the receiver, is very settable LOF, the receiver is Channel, Preference, Set-
The front panel shines in small and the pressure points compatible with C-band and ting, AV and Game) and is
its simplicity and, in addition for the buttons are clearly Ku-band antennas as well very nicely arranged.
to a segmented display that marked. The arrangement as any other type of recep- The Installation section
shows the current time or of the individual functions tion system. Panodic even takes you to the reception
the currently selected chan- at first glance might seem thought about those users settings and the search for
nel number, it sports six but- a little unorganized, but you with SCR single-cable solu- new channels. Compared to
tons that can be used to con- should get used to it after a tions and offers the neces- the initial installation assis- 3 6
trol the receiver without the short time. sary parameters for that kind tant, it also provides the abil-
remote control. A status LED The Panodic HDS275 is not of setup. ity to drive DiSEqC 1.2 and
that switches between green only small on the outside, it’s The manufacturer was very 1.3 motorized antennas.
and red indicates to the user also ‘small’ on the inside. The successful in the implemen- From here the user can
the current operational sta- installation assistant that tation of the channel scan’s also modify and expand the
tus of the receiver (red = appears the first time the graphical presentation; it is preprogrammed satellite and
standby, green = on). receiver is turned on only available in transponder, sin- transponder lists as they see
Hidden behind a flap is a offers three choices: time, gle satellite, multi-satellite fit. It’s a feature that we were
CI slot for use with PayTV language and channel scan. and blind scan modes. happy to play around with.
services; it can accept all Because of this the in- The regular scan of HOT- The Channel section is to-
the standard CI modules (for stallation is completed very BIRD at 13° east found 1498 tally dedicated to editing the
example, Irdeto, Viaccess, quickly. The first two options TV channels and 394 radio channel list. With nearly 2000
Conax, etc.). take no time at all. As is typi- channels in a reasonable channel entries added by our can be deleted, moved and Panodic also kept in mind 1. Panodic HDS275’s initial settings
Unlike most other modern cal, the HDS275 can also au- eight minutes. A BlindScan test scan of the HOTBIRD renamed as well as sorted al- that kids might be in the 2. Antenna settings
receivers, the HDS275 comes tomatically set the internal of the same satellite resulted satellite, it’s a feature you phabetically, by FTA/CAS or household; individual chan- 3. Channel scan on HOTBIRD
CAS/FTA. This makes it very nels can be locked out with a 4. Channel list
with a Scart connector for clock directly from the in- in 1466 TV channels and 390 really can’t do without. With
5. The Info bar shows the content of the
easy for the user to organize PIN code to keep those curi-
use on older TVs. Of course, coming satellite signal. radio channels in 12 minutes; the help of the colored func-
the nearly 4000 possible en- ous eyes from seeing some-
current program but not the next program 0.58
all the other connections For the language selection it needed a little more time tion buttons on the remote 6. Main Menu
you’d expect to find are all option, the Panodic offers a and found fewer channels control, individual channels tries in the channel list. thing they shouldn’t.
there: HDMI, YUV and CVBS representative cross-section
outputs are all available. The of all the more important Eu-
audio output is available on ropean languages.
a coaxial digital audio output It gets more exciting in the
as well as on two analog RCA Channel Scan menu. Panodic
outputs. included a preprogrammed
Since the HDS275 is a list of 24 satellites and cor-
DVB-S/S2 receiver, there’s responding transponders.
also the typical IF tuner in- Unfortunately, this list is not
put along with its associated all that up to date. However,
looped-through output as we did like the wide variety of
well as a USB 2.0 interface settings capabilities to match


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11 7. Satellite and transponder data can easily be edited
8. Even the DiSEqC 1.2 and 1.3 protocols are supported allowing
the control of motorized antennas
9. The user can match the channel list to his personal tastes in the
Channel Manager
10. The Boot on Channel Option lets the receiver always start with
a predefined channel
11. Language settings
12. PVR settings
13. In addition to a video resolution of 720p, resolutions up to
1080p are possible
14. Five integrated video games pass the time during commercial
breaks
15. Integrated Teletext decoder

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There are also eight freely by an Auto-standby function
loadable Favorites lists that that can be automatically ac-
round out our overall positive tivated after a user-settable
impression of the channel one, two or three hours and
list editing capabilities of the by the individual adjustment
HDS275. In this way, every of contrast, brightness, satu-
family member can set up ration and color tone of the
their own Favorites list with displayed video signal. After
their favorite channels. our extensive excursion in-
In addition to typical set- side the new HDS275’s menu
tings such as OSD language structure, it was finally time
17 and time, the Basic settings to have a closer look at this
menu also comes with some receiver’s everyday opera-
interesting extras. tion.
One of those is the ‘Option A push of the OK button
Boot on Channel’ setting that on the remote control dis-
lets you program the receiv- plays, just like with almost
er to go to a specifically de- any other receiver, the chan-
fined channel every time the nel list. The channel list with
receiver is turned on and not the HDS275 is presented in a
just the channel that was last nicely organized fashion and
viewed. Not only that, you can be limited to only FTA or
can also select the maximum CAS channels.
size of any recorded data We also liked the running
18 (1,2,3,4 GB or Unlimited). ticker used for lengthy chan-
It lets you elegantly bypass nel names. In this way you
that problem of maximum can see the entire name of
4GB file sizes in FAT32 for- a channel instead of just the
matted storage devices. first set of characters that
As far as PVRs go, the happen to fit. Channel surf-
HDS275 shines; in addition to ing is a pleasure with the
standard PVR functions, the HDS275; less than one sec-
Panodic can also automati- ond is needed to switch be-
cally add an already started tween channels. With the pic-
recording to the Timeshift ture and audio quality there
cache memory. The size of was also nothing to complain
the Timeshift can also be ad- about but we really didn’t ex-
19 justed by the user. pect any less from Panodic.
Before closing the main Thanks to the receiver’s
menu and watching TV, the 128 MB main memory and
user should take one more its 4 MB Flash memory, the
look in the Settings menu. receiver reacts very quickly
Since the receiver supports to commands from the re-
resolutions via HDMI in 480p, mote control. After switching
480i, 576p, 576i, 720p, 1080i to a new channel, an Info bar
and 1080p modes, it is capa- appears momentarily at the
ble of providing full HD sig- bottom of the screen provid-
nals to modern TVs. ing data on the current pro-
All of these settings capa- gram but not the next pro-
bilities are further enhanced gram.
20 Aside from that, the Info
16. HD channels can easily be
recorded bar also shows other typical
17. The MP3 player can also data such as the current time
process and display cover art and the encryption method
18. The integrated media player used. To get an overview of
supports all the common
formats the currently available pro-
19. The media player can grams, a simple push of the
also play back full HD videos
without any problems EPG button on the remote
20. The channel list can be control is needed to display
limited to individual satellite all the programming infor-
entries
mation from the provider.
The display of the EPG can be

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either a grid showing seven another channel live. It will TURKSAT at 42° east as well Rat, Go Bang, Sudoku) to help 21
channels or it can be limited also let you watch a prere- as relatively weak signals like pass the time during those
TECHNICAL
DATA
to the complete EPG display corded program while re- those on BADR at 26° east long commercial breaks. Manufacturer Panodic, 12/F Grentech Building, Keji C Road 3rd,
of a single channel. Natural- cording another program. that flirt with the thresh- Since the manufacturer is Nanshan, Shenzhen 518057, China
ly, timer entries can be pro- Overall we thoroughly en- old level of the receiver. In constantly at work improving Contact www.panodic.com/Contact.aspx
grammed directly from the joyed the PVR features. But both cases the HDS275 was the HDS275’s software, any Internet www.panodic.com
EPG. This helps to guaran- there’s more. As you would able to handle the requested updates that become avail- Model HDS275
tee that you won’t miss that expect with any namebrand tasks and left us with a very able can be uploaded into the Function / Receiver
blockbuster movie or that receiver, the Panodic box favorable impression. SCPC receiver either via the exter- Input frequency 950-2150 MHz
next installation of your fa- uses the attached storage reception was interference nal storage device or directly Supported standards , , QPSK, 8PSK
vorite TV series. device to not only record and free starting at 2.0 Ms/sec. via satellite. SCPC yes (> 2 Ms/s)
A total of only ten timer play back TV and radio pro- and signals with a C/N of 5 All in all, we had a lot of fun EPG yes
entries can be filled; it would grams, it also serves as the dB could be displayed with- putting the Panodic HDS275 Video resolution 480p, 480i,576p,576i,720p, 1080i, 1080p
be nice if the manufacturer storage device for the MP3 out any large dropouts. through the ringer. It is an- 22 RS232 no
could improve this number jukebox, the picture viewer The HDS275 is further sup- other excellent example of Ethernet no
to 20 entries or perhaps even and the media player. plemented by an integrated a successful concept that in USB 2.0 yes
more. All of these functions were teletext decoder (that also this case involves not only HDTV yes
As soon as an external conceived by Panodic with functioned correctly in our the miniaturization of the re- MPEG4/H.264 yes
storage device is connected great detail. The MP3 player, tests) as well as five video ceiver and remote control, Supported OSD languages English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek,
via the USB 2.0 port, the for example, can automati- games (Box Man, Tetris, Hit but also its menu operation. Portugiese, Russian, Dutch, Czek, Swedish, Turk

receiver can begin record- cally recognize integrated
ing SD as well as HD chan- cover art for a song and then
Expert Opinion ENERGY
nels. During a recording, the display it. The media player DIAGRAM
channel list is reduced to the supports the DivX (AVI), Living room compatible receiver with all the
necessary everyday features. Stable and
number of available channels VOB, MPEG and TS formats
+
Apparent Power
sophisticated software that functions without
and since the receiver only and can also process full HD
content effortlessly.
any problems. 23
has one tuner, it would be
those channels that are on As is standard during our The Info bar should show the EPG data from Thomas Haring
the same transponder. While tests, the HDS275’s tuner, a – the current and upcoming program.
TELE-satellite
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Active Power

Austria
it’s not possible to record two Sharp S7HZ7306A, also had
channels at the same time, it to undergo strenuous tests
will quite happily record one such as with narrowband Mode Apparent Active Factor
channel and let you watch SCPC signals like those on Active 12 W 7W 0.58
StandBy 2W 0.7 W 0.35

The first 15 minutes in active operation with channel switching, PVR
recording and playback; the second 15 minutes in standby mode.

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21. One of the multiple audio tracks can be
selected
22. EPG overview of a total of seven
channels
23. The complete programming guide of a
channel


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